Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Review & Score

About:After 48 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.

Not nearly as bad as everyone is making this out to be. It features one of the more gruesome portrayals of Leatherface in the franchise. TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE has the familiar, but thrives on the blood, guts, gruesome horror action that we have come to know and love since Tope Hooper introduced us to the crazed Leatherface character back in '74.

It's definitely got its Netflixness to it, but it's not nearly as bad as critics and a lot of audience members are saying. I'm gonna say it'll be looked back on in that sense, "Oh, well, you know... it really wasn't that bad." We've heard that before, right? But, anyhow. It has its Netflix vibes to the production and the casting choices. (if you know, you know). But it's still a fun, brutal slasher that deserves more love than loveless.

No real great acting performances in this one, but thats not why you should come and stay. It's not fearless, but its putting out plot points that should cause for discussion. Maybe that's the point? I don't know, but I'm in it for the chainsaw parade of blood and face scalping (which you do get SOME scalping, haha). I didn't care for the Sally performance in this, however. That was very disappointing and they should've just killed her off -- like, just have said she grew old and passed away knowing she got away from Leatherface and his family.

That, being out of respect for actress Marilyn Burns, who portrayed Sally back in '74. But, no, they had to force the Jamie Lee Curtis in 2018's Halloween arc on us here. It wasn't needed and I'm upset they didn't just kill the Sally character off in a respectful and humane way. Her appearance wasn't needed AT ALL.

I digress.

Other than that, you should get some enjoyment out of this if you're a slasher fan.

2.5/5