The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

I couldn't remember if I'd seen "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" before. After watching it, I'm still not sure. It's that kind of movie, but then none of the recent "Chainsaw" retreads have had anything to distinguish one from the other.This one, I guess, is supposed to be a prequel to the classic original, which was made (and set) in 1974. "The Beginning" is set in the '60s, with two characters who are staring down the barrel of an imminent tour of duty in Vietnam.All setting the movie closer to the time of the original "Texas Chainsaw" does it make it look more like garbage by comparison. That movie was made on a shoe-string budget, and yet it was a work of genius with style to spare. It wasn't even that violent, and yet the film's atmosphere was so oppressive that people let their imaginations do the work, and Tobe Hooper spoke of fans coming up to him and describing brutally violent scenes that they swore were in the movie, but in fact, were not.Alas, this prequel, if that's what it is, does nothing to ignite the imagination. It's a tedious, humdrum, dreary affair, which doesn't even really get the violence right. It would have cost millions. Why not go crazy with the gore? Face it: that's the only reason anyone watches this stuff. Why not let them have it? Sure, it has some pretty violent bits toward the end of the movie, but you have to wait so long to see it, and you'll probably be asleep by then.Lee Tergesen, of "Oz" and "Generation Kill" and "Weird Science", has a strange walk on role that is not utilised at all. Knowing what a great actor he is, why did they cast him and give him nothing to do?R. Lee Ermey is really the main antagonist of the film, but I think by 2006 he was really long past his intimidating heyday. He looks like a sad and angry old man, not the demon the movie requires.Leatherface, never really allowed to be the 'star' of these films like Freddy or Jason were the stars of theirs, is predictably pushed into the background, showing up every once in a while when someone needs to die.

Thoroughly sickening, mindless ultra-gore with NO redeeming elements whatsoever.I thought John Wick was about as mindless as film making could get (see my review) but this makes Wick look like an art-house classic.Depraved and reprehensible beyond belief... the makers should be strung-up for all eternity.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) left a lot of questions and even if no one cared about it, a sequel was then put into production for unanswered questions and BOOM! We got Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2! Texas Chainsaw: The Beginning follows two brothers and their girlfriends who are ready to go to war and while driving there, certain events then lead them lured into the Hewitts traps. This film may have recieved a lot of negativity but Chainsaw fans loved it and I had to watch it considering I loved the first film and strangely already had it on DVD, well, what did I think about it?..it was ok, I guess. I am a big Texas Chainsaw Massacre fan and I did not really see the big thing about it, it was really good but it was not supposed to be second best after the original which loads of people thought, lets just talk about the goods and the bads. This film was very original, the film had a very fresh plot which i did like, the acting in the film was quite good aswell and Lee Ermey was very good too in this, Leatherface was not really in it but Ermey made up for his brilliant talented acting, now, lets get into the bads; The ending, the ending of this film I felt was pretty weak and it dragged on a bit, the characters were also pretty blunt and your predicatble cringy roles in a horror film, but I did like it! The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a good enough horror film worth seeing if you liked the remake and just like gory horror fun!

Another very good and unpredictable production unlike many horror films these days, BRAVO!