The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning Review, Set before for the first film, very gory slasher movie.
Director Jonathan Liebesman
Writer Sheldon Turner
Cast
- Jordana Brewster - Chrissie
- Taylor Handley - Dean A. Hill
- Diora Baird - Bailey
- Matt Bomer - Eric Hill
- R. Lee Ermey - Charlie Hewitt
- Marietta Marich - Luda Mae Hewitt
- Allison Marich - Young Luda Mae
- Leslie Calkins - Sloane
- Andrew Bryniarski - Thomas Brown
- Lee Tergesen - Holden
- Kathy Lamkin - Tea Lady
On August 7, 1939, after a mother dies giving birth to a deformed child, the baby is disposed of into a dumpster. A homeless woman discovers the baby and takes her home. This deformed child becomes Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning.
In 1969 two brothers were going to enlist to fight in Vietnam, traveling through Texas with girlfriends. They end up being chased by a biker with a shotgun.
During the chase, they crash into a cow and lose control. This is when they come across The Sheriff (R. Lee Ermey). It then gets a whole lot worse for the travelers.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning has a very similar feel to the 2003 remake, so if you like that, you'll like this one.
It's safe to argue, though, that this picture is much more nasty and gory than the first. With this film, they've pushed things a step further; a few of the moments are tough to see, and I caught myself shying away from it.
R. Lee Ermey - Charlie Hewitt has a more significant part in this film, which is a good thing as he was one of the best things about the 2003 remake.
He manages to be even more charismatic and even creepier than he was in the first film, which is an outstanding achievement.
The rest of the cast also provides good performances managing to look terrified genuinely.
Again, the cinematography is brilliant, adding to the atmosphere and tension, combined with a compelling score that sets the mood and creates a great feel.
Overall this is a well-put-together movie that will scare you and disturb you.
Review:
In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning, the pre-credits scenes show a female meat-packing inspector in a nasty, smelly Texas meat-packing facility in 1939.
Scripted by Sheldon Turner and directed by Jonathan Liebesman. Her supervisor ignores her request for a restroom break, and she is abruptly left loose in her position.
But, according to popular belief, she hasn't lost control of her bladder. Instead, we discover as she falls backward into the filthy, rat-infested floor that she's just had her water burst.
She almost jettisons out a horrifically disfigured mutant kid.
The boss does what any 'normal' employer would do in such a scenario.
He throws it in the rubbish, where it is discovered screaming the next day by Luda Mae Hewitt (Marietta Marich), who names it Thomas and raises it as her kid. So how did Thomas end up so insane with such a 'loving' mother?
Is it the family patriarch, R. Lee Ermey, who, according to Luda Mae? Catalyzes a cycle of violence and the violent cannibalism of her now-grown, meat-carving son, Tommy, when he kills the Sheriff and adopts his identity?
Anyway, just getting past the opening credits of this film necessitates an iron-cast stomach. So as we see flashes of images of flesh being de-boned, cut into edible chunks, sewn together, and on and on in some of the most gruesome and stomach-churning footage.
I've ever seen nearly more horrific than anything later in the film.
While that's going on, we meet up with a car full of kids, four to be exact, two brothers, Dean (Taylor Handley) and Eric (Matthew Bomer), and their respective girlfriends, Bailey (Diora Baird) and Chrissie (Jordana Brewster).
They are driving across Texas to the military base where Dean will be joining an older brother in his first tour of active duty in Vietnam.
Dean has a covert plan to go to Mexico with Bailey to avoid the draft that Eric does not know about; Chrissie knows Dean and Bailey are concealing something, but what, as the quartet frolic in cheap hotels with the lads attempting to get their final mojo out.
This backstory has little to no bearing on anything, and it certainly doesn't make us care about these four.
But, unfortunately, it's not enough to hope for their safety from Sheriff Hoyt's new and not-so-improved nephew Tommy "Leatherface" Hewit (Andrew Bryniarski) and his chainsaw's screaming rev.
The Sheriff apprehends them and returns them to his home. He plans to feed his family with a new and unlimited supply of visitors.
Bailey is shackled under the kitchen table for unclear reasons. He hangs the two boys by their wrists like animals in a meat-packing facility.
While Chrissie, who was thrown from the automobile wreck that led to the Sheriff's 'rescue,' crawls up to the home with thoughts of becoming G.I. Jane and saving her companions.
Unfortunately, she's hurt herself, and let's say she's not quite as cunning as Bruce Willis' John McClane when it comes to devising a rescue strategy.
Is it necessary for me to inform you that she is also apprehended? Since this is a precursor, there are no spoilers to be concerned about.
Thus, you already know that Leatherface is still alive. You already know that none of these four impoverished, illiterate youngsters will survive.
So the only question is how long they will live and what gruesome, nasty, macabre, twisted torture method the authors would devise before murdering them.
So, the plot isn't all that interesting. It's rather brutal and bloody.
If I owned a theater, I'd give out free barf bags throughout the opening credits and one particularly tragic and filthy sequence in which Leatherface receives his name. But it's all predictable and meaningless.
Acting:
The acting in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning was a reasonable exchange. Other than Sheriff Hoyt's position, I don't believe any other characters required any acting talent.
To lie shackled to a bed for half an hour and scream or rush about a farm with a chainsaw attempting to see people up does not need superb acting. R. Lee Ermey puts up a show, but this isn't about award nominations.
Consider what would happen if every filmmaker used that approach. I don't need a brilliant narrative or superb performance; all I need is drama or humor.
Huh? Isn't that what a poor movie is all about? Why can no one produce a horror picture with a good narrative, good characters, and good acting?
It's named Aliens for a reason. However, putting these other GBMR movies together requires more time and money.
Is it frightening to see someone having a chainsaw driven through a vehicle seat and then through them while driving the getaway car?
It's a simple fright with no basis in reality. It's a horrible version of a simple dread of death in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning.
A succession of similar events tied together with a back narrative about a malformed mutant kid being born in a meat-packing industry and nurtured by a sick cannibal family.
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