Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Netflix

Agent Coulson · 31-01-2022 6:38pm #1

Drops February 18th.

After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcI6SFiK_yk&ab_channel=Netflix

~Rebel~ · 31-01-2022 8:08pm

Such a shame the Northern Irish lads who had been signed to direct dropped out (Ryan and Andy Tohill), would've loved to see their take on this after their brilliant The Dig (not the netflix archeology movie).

As an aside, I hate this trend of naming sequels the same as the original (they've dropped the 'The', but same difference).

pixelburp · 31-01-2022 8:37pm

That final scene. Oof. I hate the empty cultural abyss that is Influencer culture as much as the next person, but I did kinda groan. A little too "how do you do fellow kids?" there.

gmisk · 31-01-2022 9:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058230681/texas-chainsaw-massacre-netflix

The scariest thing in that trailer was that girls eyebrows...wowsers!

s8n · 08-02-2022 1:15pm

wtf is going on with those eyebrows ?

CastorTroy · 09-02-2022 3:11pm

She reminds me of Buffy's first room mate at college for some reason.

Leatherface would want to be careful not to throw his back out with the chainsaw at his age.

CastorTroy · 18-02-2022 10:16pm

Watched this tonight. Was okay. Being short probably helped it.

Spoilers below

One big problem with modern horror films is are we to believe horror films don't exist in them? Or that no one watches them? Though I guess that would make them all Scream clones.

Whatever about verifying the kill, get the frack out of there just in case and don't rest until you're hundreds of miles away. And when leaving, use a fast car, not what they were doing.

I thought the original took place in a farmhouse, like the one in the post credits, so why was he in the orphanage? Maybe he lived there when younger?

But the 2 who planned the event were the biggest idiots of the lot. Did they seriously buy up a whole town and plan on selling it without even seeing it themselves? The first time they saw it was a few minutes before the potential investors arrived.

19-02-2022 1:13am

Critical consensus seems to be .... "utter shite"

hynesie08 · 19-02-2022 2:19pm

Pure unbridled shite, absolute waste of 90 minutes and I hoped somebody would crack me in the skull with a hammer at the end so I'd forget ever watching it.

The Golden Miller · 23-02-2022 10:08pm

The timeline doesn't make sense, he's far too young. Was the woman supposed to be his mother, cops call him "her boy"? The cops obviously knew him to see, but never put two and two together that he may have been the murderer from the first?

The Leatherface/3d timeline was better, should have continued with that. Nubbins/hitchhiker was the best character anyway, and madest of all the brothers.

In this film he seems to have supernatural elements and strength which also doesn't make sense, never seemed to be stronger than his brothers, infact got bullied mercilessly by them and was terrified. Leatherface was really a victim of continued domestic violence, lived in fear of his lunatic family

23-02-2022 10:10pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118658596#Comment_118658596

Fair play & kudos for sticking with it till the end......i just HAD to cash-in after an hour......was losing the will to live

The Golden Miller · 23-02-2022 10:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118681634#Comment_118681634

People over exaggerate with this stuff. It's watchable if you like the franchise

23-02-2022 10:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118681740#Comment_118681740

Nope.....its pure & utter drivel. Bad soundtrack, bad acting, bad dialogue......... couldn't find any redeeming features in it at all. AVOID

2Mad2BeMad · 23-02-2022 10:31pm

I thought it was watchable.

As far as horror remakes go (is it a remake?) it was decent

I wouldn't watch it again but don't feel like I wasted time watching it either

The Golden Miller · 23-02-2022 10:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118681782#Comment_118681782

Exactly it's watchable. Most disappointing aspect was he has no family in it. Most interesting aspect of the films I find is him being bullied at home. One of horrors most iconic characters a scared kitten at home ha

Sugarlumps · 24-02-2022 10:18am

It was more of a comedy that a horror, especially the bus moment. Sure it was bad, but so are most films made these days.

Homelander · 26-02-2022 12:34pm

Absolutely terrible - just throw a threadbare budget at it and hope the name brings in a few suckers.

Rubbish story, bad acting, cringe-inducing dialogue, lazily slapped together, utterly nonsensical behaviors from everyone as is typical for these z-grade movies.

I haven't seen all of the Texas Chainsaw movies, but of the few I've seen this is absolutely no-contest the worst by a wide margin.

I do enjoy silly slashers but this isn't that. It's not clever-silly, not even stupid-silly, it's just insultingly brain-dead.

The Irish lad is probably the only one who puts in a halfway convincing turn to be fair, movie could have done with more of him and less of literally everyone else.

I would not recommend it unless you like "so bad they're good" kinda movies with friends. I would've turned it off if I was watching it alone.

26-02-2022 1:08pm

They say that you can't polish a shite?

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Netflix

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