The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

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Jordan S.

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Saw this on Saturday afternoon and thought it was quite good. Not as good as the original though. Definetly lots of blood and gore, and it has probably one of the most 'ewwwww' beginnings to a film I think I've ever seen. It certainly deserves it's 18 certificate! What did everyone else think of it?

Paddy :D
 
So is it a prequel to the remake or does it not matter?

If it's a success, and these genres usually manage to do well enough, will they be remaking the sequels?
 
No don't tell because I want to see it :)

Well I for one did not enjoy the remake. Not because I thought it was a bad film. More because apart from the characters the story was totally different.

I will watch this new film, but don't get the feeling that I'm gonna be shocked somehow. Haven't we seen it all now?
 
OK, here is a brief summary, but watch it for yourself, much more of an impact...

A woman is sitting in the meat factory cutting up some meat when she starts to complain to her boss that she neeRAB a break, but she is told to carry on working. Then, she starts to look worried and what I can only assume is her 'waters' starts to gush down her leg, (at first I thought it was urine). She then falls on the floor and her boss approaches her and she starts to convulse. Steaming, (yes steaming), blood then starts pouring from between her legs and eventually you see that she has given birth to a facially disfigured baby. Not long after the baby is found screaming in a dumpster by a woman scavaging for food and she takes him home. And it all starts from there....

Paddy :D
 
Saw it last Friday -- thought it was AWFUL

Pointless rehash of the decent remake -- Pretty much the same group of teens (even to the point of looking like the actors from the 2003 remake) getting terrorised in the same way, in the same locations, only with lots of boring padding.

I felt that fleshing out the background of the family was redundant, and made them infinitely less scary. I mean they ate people because they had to, rather than just being plain psycho. And do we really need to try and humanise Leatherface by making out his crazy family pushed him to do things? Again, I prefer my psychos just that -- PSYCHO :D

The opening bit in the meat factory was the best part, then it all went downhill after that!

Going to see The Grudge 2 after work later -- I'm hoping that's a bit more fun :D
 
Liked this film lots

Was quite scary and a VAST improvement on the surprisingly dull and totally unscary remake of a few years ago

A lot of gore which lead to a lot of grimacing and eyes shut lol

Really would recommend it though, its quite a good film and I liked how they filled us in on the family. LOVE the fat woman, she is the best!
 
A far superiour movie to the watered down tripe that is the remake. The remake was teen marketed, nothing more. No violence like a movie of this type should have. TCM: The Begining, is a movie that was competently made and had the right amount of violence and gore it didn't go over board on them. This is how the remake should have been handled when messing with the TCM lore, Leatherface was made look weak in the remake, in this one he is one person you DON'T want to mess with - whch is the way it should be!.
 
I agree. The reason the original TCM was so scarey and had such an impact on me was simply because there was no reason for the violence, and no excuses made for the killers. They had no softer side, no childhood abuse that turned them into psychos, no physical need to drink blood or eat flesh, there were no alien invaders and there was no nice hollywood ending where the bad guys got arrested.
 
Maybe it was just me, but I found this movie really boring - yeah it was ultra violent but it wasn't scary at all. The refreshing thing about the original is that there wasn't that much blood on screen but it still scared the crap out of you.

Also, it might be just me, but I found this film to be pretty much exactly the same as the 2003 remake...
 
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