The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Tags: violence, cruelty, murder, sadist

Plot synopsis:
On August 7, 1939, a young woman who works in a meat-packing plant in rural Travis County, Texas, dies giving birth to a child in the back room of the building when she suddenly goes into labor. The cruel plant manager abandons the newborn in a dumpster. A local woman, named Luda Mae Hewitt, discovers the baby while searching for food. She names the infant Thomas and takes him to the Hewitt residence and raises the baby as her own son.Over the next 30 years, Thomas (Andrew Bryniarski) grows up and goes to work in the same slaughterhouse. When its horrid conditions cause the closure of his workplace, Thomas comes back and kills the slaughterhouse's owner with a sledgehammer; he also finds and takes a chainsaw. Charlie Hewitt (R. Lee Ermey), Luda Mae's (Marietta Marich) sadistic son, learns from Sheriff Winston Hoyt (Lew Temple) what Thomas has done, and accompanies the Sheriff to arrest Thomas. When they find Thomas, Charlie kills the Sheriff with a shotgun and takes his identity. Charlie and Thomas take the Sheriff's body home and butcher him for stew meat, telling the rest of the family that they will not leave their home even as the rest of the area becomes deserted.A few months later, in July 1969, two brothers, Eric (Matthew Bomer) and Dean (Taylor Handley), drive across the country with their girlfriends Chrissie (Jordana Brewster) and Bailey (Diora Baird). Eric and Dean are draft dodgers and are plotting to flee north to avoid being drafted into the U.S. Army where they will be sent to Vietnam. They stop at a local eatery where they encounter a group of bikers. As the group pulls away, a female biker, Alex (Cyia Batten), follows them. A chase ensues, ending with the group crashing into a cow and flipping their car. In the process, Chrissie gets thrown from the car and lands in the weeds, out of sight of the others. Charlie Hewitt/Sheriff Hoyt soon arrives on the scene; he immediately shoots Alex, throws her body into the trunk of his squad car, forces the rest of the group in as well, and calls for his Uncle Monty (Terrence Evans) on the car's CB radio to tow the wreckage. The tow truck comes and tows the car, in which Chrissie has hidden herself.Hoyt takes the group to the Hewitt house and calls for Thomas to butcher the dead Alex. He then takes Eric and Dean to a barn and hangs them by their arms from the rafters; he later ties Bailey to the kitchen table. From the car, Chrissie sees her friends tied up and runs back to the highway. She flags down Holden (Lee Tergesen), one of the bikers from the diner, and tells him about Alex and her friends. Holden then follows Chrissie back to the house.At the Hewitts', Hoyt tortures Eric and Dean by beating them with his nightstick and forcing them to do pushups when he figures out that they are draft dodgers. However, they manage to free themselves. When they attempt to rescue Bailey, Hoyt beats Eric, and Dean gets caught in a bear trap. Bailey escapes, taking Monty's truck, but Thomas stops her by stabbing her in the chest with a meat hook and drags her from the truck. Thomas then takes Eric to the basement and straps him to a wooden table.Holden enters the house to search for Alex, but ends up shooting Monty in one of his kneecaps, surprising Hoyt in the process. Hoyt leads him to a bedroom where Thomas kills him with his chainsaw. Chrissie finds Eric and tries to free him, but cannot release the metal straps nailed to the table. Thomas comes downstairs as Chrissie hides under the table. Thomas kills Eric and then skins his face, putting it on as a mask.... thus earning his nickname Leatherface. Thomas/Leatherface comes to the aid of his wounded uncle Monty, and seeing that the shotgun wound to his left kneecap is bad, uses his chainsaw to amputate Monty's leg off. Then, for no clear reason, Thomas chainsaws Monty's other leg off as well just above the kneecap as some twisted way of making is work perfect.Later, Chrissie finds and tries to free Bailey, whom Hoyt has tied up again on the second floor. As Chrissie attempts to untie her friend, Hoyt and Thomas catch her and bring her downstairs for "dinner". There, Dean sits unconscious as Thomas/Leatherface slits Bailey's throat with a pair of scissors, then grabs Chrissie and brings her downstairs as well. On the way to the basement, Chrissie manages to stab Thomas in the back with a screwdriver and escapes by jumping out a window, with Thomas pursuing her.Dean regains consciousness, escaping to the front of the house. There he assaults Hoyt by smashing his head repeatedly into the solid concrete porch, knocking out him out cold, as well as Hoyt's two front teeth, then heads out to find Chrissie. Meanwhile, Chrissie hides in the abandoned slaughterhouse. She slashes Thomas's face with a knife she has found, but he drags her to the floor. Dean arrives to stop him but Thomas impales and kills him with his chainsaw. Meanwhile, Chrissie makes her way to a nearby car and drives off into the night.Chrissie, desperately looking for help, sees a police deputy who has pulled someone over. As Chrissie is about to pull over, Thomas suddenly appears in the back seat and kills Chrissie by ramming his chaindaw through her seat. The car, out of control, crashes into the Deputy and citizen, killing both of them. Thomas (now called Leatherface) exits the car and slowly walks back along the dark road to the Hewitt house.

Review: Wow. Impresively taking "Texas Chainsaw" back to its roots, horror fans and cinema-goers alike should definitely give this prequel to the daring 2003 remake a chance.
Jordana Brewster plays Chrissie, who is on a fun road-trip across Texas with her friends, Eric, Dean, and Bailey, played well off of each other by Matthew Bomer, Taylor Handley and Diora Baird.Shortly after the terrifying, recognizable psycho Leatherface commits his first murders, a cross story involving an encounter with some nasty bikers throws the doomed teenagers flipping across the road in a surprisingly brutal accident.After Sheriff Hoyt arrives (R.
Lee Ermy in another chilling performance), to take control of the scene, the nightmare begins for Chrissie's friends as she watches them get taken away in his police car, unknowingly headed for the house which would become a place of torment and nightmares for years to ensue.Appropriately gory and no-holds barred, Jonathan Liebesman creates a tight, slick and sadistic thriller in the eyes of Chrissie as she endlessly attempts to rescue her friends from a demented madman's clutches.
Prequel to the 2003 "Texas Chainsaw..." giving us the origin of Leatherface and his twisted family.
Also there's good old Leatherface and his chainsaw chasing everybody.In some ways I applaud a grim, graphic R rated horror film that pulls no punches--I HATE the watered down PG-13 crap we usually get.
R. Lee Ermey plays a major character instead of a bit-player like in the 2003 remake, and the film benefits from this..
Texas Chainsaw Massacre:The Beginning is a fantastic slasher film that brings us back to the classic era of 1970's slashers.I loved this chainsaw film simply because it answers all the whys and provides you with leatherface's history.Definitely gorier than the previous film and far more cringe inducing.This is first non cheesy slasher i've seen in ages which is a very nice change for me personally.The acting in the film is very good there are some very intense performances and some graphic scenes.It's shot very 70's slasherseque which overall gives it a creepy aura.The storyline is very easy to follow yet very disturbing and depressing at the same time.Overall fans of The Devil's Rejects and The Hills Have Eyes see Texas Chainsaw Massacre:The Beginning it's well worth the admission fee..
I've been a Texas chainsaw fanatic since i saw the original (when i was about 8) and all the sequels obviously tried hard (except the one with Bridget Jones in which was an utter waste of time) but ultimately failed to be worthy of following up such a classic.
there was no crap attempts at humour (other than the 'sherrif' but thats laughing at how out of order he is) and once it gets going it doesn't stop until the abrupt ending.it looks great, the violence is above and beyond what you expect to see at a cinema (i don't know all the cuts made to the us version but the UK version seems to be about 8mins longer) and it felt like i was watching something that deserved to have 'texas chainsaw massacre' in the title.if you like horror and gore films you should have a great time, go see..
Extreme fans of horror, people who have seen Untold Story and stuff like that, will have no problem with this.
Especially a Texas chainsaw massacre flick but this movie answers so many questions from the first one and really makes it look like this movie should come first.
If you love gore, suspense, terror, and the symbol of all that is just plain wrong then The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is just your slasher!.
There is also lots of blood and gore which is of course one of the basic and inevitable parameters of a good horror film..
:) When i watched it i almost felt that it might turn me off of making horror films, but the feeling of course came right back:) Leatherface shows no mercy!
Christie follows them trying to rescue the trio, trapped in the house of sadistic and insane cannibals, in a trip of horror and gore."The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" is a great prequel to the classic "Texas Chainsaw Massacre".
The story gives a good explanation to the origins of Leatherface, "the ugliest thing ever seen", and the movie is extremely violent and gore, with touches of surrealism.
From beginning to end, the movie was far more intense and scary than the remake.
I mean, the remake kind of started a new genre of horror (whether people liked it or not).
Kind of wanted to know where the girl walking down the dirt road in the beginning of the 2003 movie came from and what her story was...I guess that was my ONLY disappointment.
If you like Horror or the original Texas Chainsaw movies I recommend you see this one.
Instead of being scary, Texas Chainsaw was just disturbing; the amount of blood and beatings that were actually shown was quite gross, and this seemed like an ill-attempt to cover the fact that there was no real plot and crappy dialog.Granted, I didn't expect an elaborate plot development, but the movie should have been less predictable and use fewer cliché scary techniques (like looking through a window and the bad person suddenly showing up).
I know that's ironic, but a good scare is in need once in awhile.Now if you like gore, suspense, and intensity then this is the movie for you!
The acting was great and I loved finally seeing how the family came about with their sickness for killing people.The gore is so bad that a few girls at different times ran out of the theater about to throw up, but that's how you know that is a good movie.
But i also thought that even if the story is the exact same thing has the remake, they actually did something right this time by adding a lot more gore in this one.
R. Lee Ermey lets loose in what he has been dying to do, be an out of control insane psychopath.They taunt you, without giving anything up, you will be taking up and down a roller-coaster, truly an experience.Leatherface, well, he is a supporting actor, the movie, IMO, was all About army and how he fostered what leather face becomes.
I know you are probably thinking that it would be boring talk and irrelevant banter about him being mistreated and abused, but it would have been nice to see what was the breaking point that made him turn into this raving lunatic killer.In essence, the movie is really like all the other Texas Chainsaw movies, so if you are a fan of the series or just enjoy actually seeing the damage being done, this movie will definitely please you..
Shocking and grisly prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) is an extremely intense ride for horror fans.Young people on a road trip find themselves in the clutches of a murderous Texas clan - whose insane crimes will become history.Unlike the previous Texas Chainsaw films, this prequel focuses more on the crazed cannibal family rather than on their teenage victims.
R. Lee Ermey is perhaps the best as the sadistic sheriff, but Jordana Brewster and Taylor Handley also do great performances as their ill-fated young characters.Fans of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) will enjoy this film, while the squeamish had better beware!*** out of ****.
I am a big fan of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, and was pleasantly surprised by the remake release a few years back, although it wasn't as good as the original.
If you didn't like the remake at least a little bit, you probably won't like this movie either, but in my opinion this one is a good deal better.
If you are an extreme loyalist to the original you also may not be pleased, as this movie really has nothing to do with it but rather stays true to the remake.The movie opens with a look at the birth of our beloved Leatherface, and let it be known that even the opening scene isn't for the faint of heart which if you see the movie you will realize it is a recurring theme.
The other Chainsaw films at least had a fraction of a story to go with but here it's just one gory highlight after another with nothing in between.Every little tasteless thing is thrown in for good measure, such as a man urinating near a helpless victim, car running over a dead animal etc.
Maybe I'm a lone ranger in demanding that gory horror films offer up some kind of plot or story but this one just had me looking at the watch twenty minutes before the end..
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is the first installment of the grim deeds of the Hewitt family as they start their rampage of serial killings.
Man this movie was like a Texas chainsaw massacre!!!.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre:The Beginning is comparable to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.It's gorier,bloodier,and has twice the innovative ills as the original.Texas Chainsaw Massacre:The beginning has indeed brought us back to the 1970's where good slashers ruled the horror genre.I'm impressed with the under utilized actors that star in the film as they all play a great role and they each make a great addition to the overall masterpiece that is this film.The change of directors is the main reason i think that this film is the better of the two modern Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies so if you weren't satisfied with the 2003 re-make Texas Chainsaw Massacre:The Beginning should satisfy your blood lust..
I enjoy a good horror movie myself, but these on going Texas Chainsaw movies are really loosing their shock ability!
Giving a back story to something that you think might already know was a great way to bring new life to this classic tale of horror.
I wasn't exactly a fan of Hostel though i would admit some of the scenes were quite disturbing, especially for a horror movie these days.
Everything I saw in this film was what every horror movie should be showing.
I dig most horror movies that have great atmosphere, some gore, decent acting at least, a good creepy family, and one hell of a killer that looks bad-ass and doesn't care what he does with his weapon.
This movie is almost the complete package.This is a prequel to the The Texas Chainsaw massacre 03 REmake which i liked.
But The Beginning gives you clues to like how Leatherface was born and made into what he is, how Hoyt lost his teeth, how grandpa lost his legs, etc.Through movie from the start gives you a creepy feeling.
The gore and torture scenes were scary as hell and the whole movie mostly revolves around the scary family which REmake didn't really do and focused more on the actors though both movies had decent acting.I really don't want to say anymore.
Before going to see this movie, I thought that it was going to be cheesy and not as good like the remake that came out a few years ago.
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" is pretty close to being one of the grisliest horror movies in recent years.
The movie, from director Jonathan Liebesman, starts before the events of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003), itself a blood-drenched remake of the original 1974 "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."But don't expect anything new.
The two young male leads were effective and likable, and sympathetic in their own back story.The effectswork is terrific yet not overdone, fitting seamlessly into the storyline to visually tell the story of the horrors committed by this family, and the film is very well supported by the music score of Steve Jablonsky, who develops the atmospheric tonality developed for the 2003 remake and crafts a musical design that maintains a constancy of dread and a rhythmic, panic-inducing pulse during the action scenes.
People are watching films like this one and probably having fantasies about the blood and gore.
I am a huge fan of movies, especially horror films.
I don't mean to offend people who like this movie, but I just want to point out that a serial killer+sick ways of killing people+blood does not equal scary.
The 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre was and still is an icon in the genre of horror and is, hands down, far more creepier and disturbing than New Line Cinemas big budget attempt to cash in, yet again, on a $20,000 independent film that reigns in the top 3 of any professional critic's top ten scariest movies of all time!.
There was not one moment in the movie when I felt anything for the characters (good or bad), nor was there any time I felt anything resembling anxiety or horror.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) was an overall good film.
Lets face it, its not every film that can mutilate people with a chainsaw (among other things), do it realistically, and still tell a good story.
I loved the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre as well, so I figured it would be interesting to see how the family got started.
LOL go see the original one (1974), it's the only one worth of this Chainsaw franchise.With this movie they tried not to scare, but to freak out so many people with the violent scenes...
Yes it wasn't the best movie ever made it too short and was slightly too gory but just appreciate it for what it is.I loved the background story on Leatherface but wanted to see more and the deaths were great so was the acting.
If you are offended or grossed out by gore then do not see this but if you are a fan then this is your kind of movie.Like i said before the movie is very good if it's your thing and some fans of the original are still complaining that it puts a bad name to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but just get a life because really no one cares I loved it and many other people did too.
One of the scariest movies I can remember seeing as a kid was the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
It does have some good old slasher fun that's lacking in a lot of today's horror.The actors are excellent and are better than the remake's cast.
The rest of the story plays out exactly like you'd expect from a Texas Chainsaw movie, and although this movie is slower and the characters less compelling, the atmosphere very closely resembles TCM (2003).Instead of writing a unique movie for the franchise, elaborating on Leatherface, his family dynamics and THE BEGINNING of his creepy tendencies, they gave us yet another rehash with 4 teens fighting for their lives in a small town.The audio is also really annoying, as the dialogue is extremely quiet while the sound effects are blaringly loud.
Going on a road-trip together, two brothers and their girlfriends going to reenlist in the Army find their stop-off in Texas puts them into contact with the vicious Hewitt family and their chainsaw- wielding son Leatherface and must find a way of getting away alive.This one was a pretty big disappointment, and only has several good things throughout it.
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning," is the prequel to the 2003 version of the movie which was directed by Marcus Nispel in 2003.
'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning' is the epitome of a horror film and is one of the best stories of its kind..
Rated R for strong horror violence/gore, language and some sexual content I have not seen the original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre or any of its sequels.However I did see the remake which I don't remember because I saw it a long time ago.I saw this about a week ago on the movie network.Will you like this movie?
Im not comparing it to any of the originals and grading it as a standalone film.If you are like me and usually look for gore in a horror film rather than plot or acting, then you will like this film.Not that it has a bad storyline or bad acting.The acting is fairly good especially from R.Lee Emery.The film is a prequel to the Texas chainsaw massacre and it takes place in the late 1960's.Four friends are driving around the desert.Two of them have to go serve in Vietnam and one of them already has.The other does not want to.They get harassed by some bikers and their car crashes.A sheriff comes to rescue them but instead he brutalizes them,takes them into his home, tortures and kills them.Will they escape or will they die?
The gore in this film is quite unthinkable, which you have to see to know what I mean.This starts from the beginning of Leatherface and family's terror.
After all the disappointing sequels of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, comes the remake and, off course it was better than the awful Part 4 but still, not near as good as the original TCM or even the first sequel.
Real horror fans have to check this one in its unrated edition, you will not be disappointed, its fair to the Leatherface legacy, it makes justice to the original movie.
I think of all the Texas chainsaw massacre films, this is the best.
It is nice to see such a good horror film, better to see if you know the background, that is real story on which this film is made.Even though film is picks up well from beginning and doesn't allow spectaculars to move from the seat, after some time you can easily predict what will happen next.
Film Review: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:The Beginning Starring: R.
Lee Emery and Jordana Brewster Directed By: Jonathan Liebesman Okay, before I go into reviewing this film I should let you all know where I stand on the 2003 remake of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'.
I never seen the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", but the remake looks very interesting & entertaining.
Leatherface character is now a legend in horror movies.