Movie Fun: Chainsaw returns with horror
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
I love watching horror movies. Maybe it's because I grew up being allowed to watch all of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies or the Friday the 13th series. There's always something great about a potential scare from the comfort of your living room or the movie theatre and the anticipation of the movie making you throw-up or question why you're actually watching the gory-goodness.
With that all being said, I was so hyped to go and see this in the theatres because it was being labeled as brutal and relentless. Did the movie live up to my expectations?
I have to say that I was actually anxious to see and witness “the birth of terror,” as the poster put it or to people who don't know, it means the evolution of great movie villain and butcher, Leatherface.
Well, my first disappointment came when I found out that the movie really doesn't go too much into Leatherface's life. You see him be born and then to a 20-something-year-old that works at a slaughterhouse that closes and leaves the town desolate. If there are no more animals to slaughter, the family decides that human meat is the next best thing.
From there, you can imagine the old clichés found in most horror movies. You meet four young adults who are traveling who just happen to get caught (somehow) by the family and witness the terror as they either try to escape, try to get help or as (some or they) get slaughtered.
The movie uses the old “quiet scene/switch to bad person in the picture with a loud bang” trick to try and get a scare out of the audience. Being a horror-connoisseur, none of these antics worked on me.
The gore wasn't too bad in this release. Reading some of the pre-reviews before going to see this actually got me hyped up too much and I think that I thought that this movie was going to set the bar even higher on the gore-meter than Hostel did. I'm sure most people would find some of the scenes disturbing (and some actually are…wait till you see the basement scene) but I just wanted more!
I wasn't a fan of the remake from two/three years ago and nothing will EVER beat the original Chainsaw. If you want a scare, watch that in the dark with the volume up.
This prequel was indeed better and I will definitely be checking out the DVD to see what they cut to get the “R” rating. Not bad, but not great.
I love watching horror movies. Maybe it's because I grew up being allowed to watch all of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies or the Friday the 13th series. There's always something great about a potential scare from the comfort of your living room or the movie theatre and the anticipation of the movie making you throw-up or question why you're actually watching the gory-goodness.
With that all being said, I was so hyped to go and see this in the theatres because it was being labeled as brutal and relentless. Did the movie live up to my expectations?
I have to say that I was actually anxious to see and witness “the birth of terror,” as the poster put it or to people who don't know, it means the evolution of great movie villain and butcher, Leatherface.
Well, my first disappointment came when I found out that the movie really doesn't go too much into Leatherface's life. You see him be born and then to a 20-something-year-old that works at a slaughterhouse that closes and leaves the town desolate. If there are no more animals to slaughter, the family decides that human meat is the next best thing.
From there, you can imagine the old clichés found in most horror movies. You meet four young adults who are traveling who just happen to get caught (somehow) by the family and witness the terror as they either try to escape, try to get help or as (some or they) get slaughtered.
The movie uses the old “quiet scene/switch to bad person in the picture with a loud bang” trick to try and get a scare out of the audience. Being a horror-connoisseur, none of these antics worked on me.
The gore wasn't too bad in this release. Reading some of the pre-reviews before going to see this actually got me hyped up too much and I think that I thought that this movie was going to set the bar even higher on the gore-meter than Hostel did. I'm sure most people would find some of the scenes disturbing (and some actually are…wait till you see the basement scene) but I just wanted more!
I wasn't a fan of the remake from two/three years ago and nothing will EVER beat the original Chainsaw. If you want a scare, watch that in the dark with the volume up.
This prequel was indeed better and I will definitely be checking out the DVD to see what they cut to get the “R” rating. Not bad, but not great.
