The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Just when you thought the original was disturbing, gross, Scary , and frightening, now comes the updated version, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,"In the beginning of the film, there is archive footage of a police search of the Hewitt house. The two officers survey the house and descend into the basement, noting the fingernail scratch marks, human blood and hair embedded into the walls.We are then brought to August 1973 where five young adults, Erin (Jessica Biel), Kemper (Eric Balfour), Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), Andy (Mike Vogel), and Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert after returning from Mexico. As they drive through Texas, they see a distraught hitchhiker (Lauren German), who eventually gets in their van. After trying to speak to the hitchhiker, who speaks incoherently about "a bad man", she shoots and kills herself with a .357 Magnum. The group tries to contact the police, then go to a store where a woman (Marietta Marich) tells them the sheriff is at the mill. Instead of the sheriff, they find a little boy named Jedediah (David Dorfman) who tells them that the sheriff is at home drinking. Erin and Kemper go through the woods to find his house, leaving the other three at the mill with the boy. They come to a plantation house where Erin is allowed inside by the owner, an amputee named Monty, to phone for help. When Erin finishes, the old man asks her for help. Kemper goes inside to look for Erin and attacked by the vicious-looking Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski), who hits him with a sledgehammer. When Leatherface takes Kemper's body to begin to make a new mask out of him, he discovers a small black box from Kemper; opening it, he discovers a ring meant for Erin.Meanwhile, Sheriff Hoyt (R. Lee Ermey) arrives at the mill and disposes of the hitchhiker's body, wrapping her in cellophane and putting her in his trunk in which he drives away and tells the youths to leave. Erin arrives and finds that Kemper is still missing. Andy and Erin go back to the Monty's house, where Erin distracts him while Andy searches for Kemper. Monty realizes Andy is inside and summons Leatherface, who attacks him with his chainsaw. Erin escapes and heads towards the woods, but Leatherface cuts Andy's leg off. Leatherface carries him to the basement and hangs him on a meat hook with his feet hanging over a piano, where he rubs salt on Andy's stump of a leg before wrapping it in butcher paper and tying it with human hair.Erin makes it to the mill and tries to escape in the van, but the sheriff shows up and, after finding marijuana, orders Erin, Morgan and Pepper to get out of the van. The sheriff gives Morgan the gun he took from the hitchhiker and tells Morgan to reenact how she killed herself. Morgan, scared and disturbed by the sheriff's demeanor, and under pressure by Erin and Pepper, attempts to shoot the sheriff only to find the gun is unloaded. Sheriff Hoyt handcuffs Morgan and drives him to the Hewitt house (a drive which includes a brutal beating), leaving the girls in the van. Erin tries to fix the truck, while Pepper holds a flashlight. Erin gets the truck running, but the one of the wheels rolls out. Erin and Pepper stay still in the truck but Leatherface appears on the top of the truck and tries to attack them. After witnessing Pepper's murder by Leatherface, Erin, who sees that Leatherface is wearing Kemper's face over his own, runs to escape and hides in a nearby trailer with two women inside, who offer her tea and try to soothe her. The two women, an obese middle-aged woman known only as the 'Tea Lady' and a younger woman named Henrietta, whom is presumably her daughter, act strange and after they tell Erin they don't have a phone for her to call for help, a telephone in the trailer rings and Henrietta picks it up and tells someone on the other end that "she's here". Erin discovers they have kidnapped a child when she sees that the baby with them is the same child in a photograph with the woman who committed suicide earlier. However, the tea is drugged and she passes out when she tries to leave.Erin wakes up at the Hewitt house surrounded by the Hewitt family: Leatherface, his mother Luda May, Sheriff Hoyt, Uncle Monty, and the little boy Jedediah. Luda May tells Erin that her excuse for her son Thomas' actions, was that her son was tormented by teenagers and that she felt no one cared for her family besides themselves. Erin is taken to the basement, where she finds Andy. She tries to help him off of the meat hook but when he sees he will land on the piano keys and alert Leatherface, he begs her to kill him, which she does, though suffers severe emotional trauma. She finds Morgan, still handcuffed, and Jedediah leads them out of the house. Jedediah rejects Erin's plea to come with them and distracts Leatherface long enough for them to escape. Erin and Morgan find an abandoned house in the woods and barricade themselves inside. Leatherface breaks in and discovers Erin, but Morgan attacks Leatherface, causing him to drop his chainsaw. Morgan grabs him and wrestles him, but Leatherface is too heavy and easily lifts Morgan upwards onto a chandelier before releasing him and Morgan gets tangled in the chandelier by his handcuffs. Leatherface picks up his chainsaw and slices up into Morgan's crotch, killing him.Erin runs out of the shack and escapes through the woods. Leatherface trips and cuts his leg while pursuing her. Erin finds a slaughterhouse and hides in a locker; Leatherface opens the locker across from hers and she attacks him with a meat cleaver, and chops off his right arm. Erin runs outside and flags down a trucker, whom she tries to convince to go away from the Hewitt's house, but he stops to find help at the eatery. Erin sees Luda May and watches as Sheriff Hoyt arrives and talks to the trucker. Erin sees Henrietta watching over the kidnapped baby in a highchair. When Henrietta walks outside to join Luda May and Sheriff Hoyt whom are talking to the truck driver, Erin sneaks the baby out of the eatery and hot-wires the sheriff's car before running him over repeatedly until he is dead. Leatherface appears in the road and tries to stop her, but Erin and the baby escape unharmed.The police archive footage continues to play. The officers inspect the basement noting the hanging meat hooks when suddenly one of the officers is grabbed and severely beaten. A blurred figure viciously shakes the camera and the other police officer is heard screaming. The narrator states that "The crime scene was not properly secured by Travis County Police. Two investigating officers were fatally wounded that day. This is the only known image of Thomas Hewitt, the man they call Leatherface. The case today still remains open".You NEED THIS MOVIE ! it's gore , gore , gore , gore , gore & more gore !

I have always loved the TCM franchise. The fact it's bounced from one person to another is sad. Many doing an awful job with it. This is one of my favorites and one of the best and first of the now so common remakes/reboots. The production of this movie is unreal. The color and feel carries throughout. There is a nasty, dinge to this film. The acting is incredible. The sheriff is one of the creepiest characters to me ever and of course Leatherface. There are a couple bad scenes in this movie. One being the scene with the man running though the endless sheets hanging to dry. It is comical and lead to so many jokes. Also the scene where Erin stabs her friend to end his suffering . Just too much drama that didn't seem to fit There are also scenes in that movie that are phenomenal. The first time I watched this I was pretty frozen throughout the movie and I was locked in. Amazing acting and characters. I'd also say with all the greens, browns, and yellows chosen this film is very visual in that it creates a mood and a feel by using certain colors. Everything in it just feels dirty. Love this movie and I always recommend it

Considering I am a collector I had to have this one to add to my collection

Let me start by saying that when I review a film, I like to do so without compairing to others. To read exactly what I think of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 version, feel free to read my review on that film. I'm not going to compair, I'll just tell you what I feel with this film on it's own merit. Lets begin...The package Meter: 5 Stars! The case for the platinum series is the way to go. You get two discs that are nice and secure, they hold well in the case and don't pop out. The discs are also easy to get in and out which saves a lot of headache. You get a beautiful cover that opens up and which looks like the long bar/blade of Leatherfaces chainsaw! Now what could be more cool then that! You also get a envelope which contains some really cool photos from what I can see in pictures. I have yet to break the red tape though on mine and open it because I want to keep it sealed. Knowing me I will buy a second copy of this gem of a film so I can open one. One disc contains the movie and the other contains a lot of extras. I just love the way this package looks, Leatherface holding his chainsaw with a errie read glow behind him. Very well done, I'm very happy with this package.Spook Meter: 4 stars! This film is very well done and very scary. It built things up at a very nice pace, not to rushed and not to slow. There is some really great scenes in this film that will make your heart race and is sure to please any serious horror fan. There are some really cool chase parts with Leatherface running with his chainsaw that made me leap with joy! I don't like to give much away at all in my reviews. I will say this, one part that will really leave a impression on you is the whole scene with the hitchhiker in the van. I will not say more then that, but it's just freaky. The actors and actresses did a fine job but it's the Sheriff and Leatherface is what brings this all together, they really made this film click. The Sheriff is just plain insane and the guy who played Leatherface really did a very fine job at bringing him to life. The way he moves in this film with the chainsaw in hand is very creepy and gives a really nice touch to this film. I felt the kids could have done a bit better, but they did well acting. I thought there could have used a few more screams throughout the film to make the terror come to life a bit more, but overall it still was scary.Gore Meter: 4 Stars There is a lot of gore in this film, but not super extream. The blood and gore I thought was very well done and it looked very real. I advise that you watch this film only if you can deal with some pretty intense scenes though because this does have it. Not as extream as my 5 star rating but still not at all for the faint of heart when it comes to gore.Profanity Meter: 5 Strikes A ton of language throughout this film and as I have said in past reviews, this is always a dissapointment to me. I find that excessive profanity actually takes away from the overall enjoyment.Sexual Meter: 1 Strikes Nothing sexual here. There are a few comments here and there that I thought were in poor taste, but other then that there is nothing sexual/visual that happens in the film.Final Thoughts: This film is scary! I have seen more scary and less scary but overall I loved this film! It will leave a impression on you and you will come away feeling very impressed! I had to give this 4 stars overall for a few things that brought the the overall enjoyment down slightly for me personally as a viewer. If you love horror though, you will be very pleased to add this gem to your collection, I know I was.I hope they continue to make more chainsaw films. Leatherface rocks!!

Looking for a good scare. This movie is it!

Was excited to get this on blu ray as I love the franchise and horror movies in general. It was one of the first horror movies my parents let me rent from blockbuster back in the day !

Esta es una gran película slasher, en la cual los detalles artísticos y técnicos son muy cuidados. En lo particular compré esta edición de Warner por el documental de casi una hora sobre la realización de la película, por las escenas eliminadas y las pruebas de cámara. La película sí tiene subtítulos en español, no así el material adicional.

Exceptionally good movie. Acting amazing. Special effects and make up brilliant. Very jumpy film. Tense a good thrill. Very happy with movie.

Toller Film, gute Qualität. 👍

Mi peli favorita de terror y la caratula esta chula, todo perfecto