mrghurby 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.

GL84 Going on a road-trip together, two brothers and their girlfriends going to reenlist in the Army find their stop-off in Texas puts them into contact with the vicious Hewitt family and their chainsaw- wielding son Leatherface and must find a way of getting away alive.This one was a pretty big disappointment, and only has several good things throughout it. One of the biggest positives for this one is that this ups considerably the two factors that had plagued the previous entries in the gore and body count. This one has almost enough deaths than all the previous entries alone, and it generates these through some rather some fun scenes in here. The car chase from the bar and the resulting crash where they get confronted by the family is quite a rather chilling sequence where they get taken away in a creepy manner, while the cutting scenes in the basement are quite stomach-churning there's quite a lot more to like here from the creepiness of the family as they hold the friends hostage. From their torture methods of continually hitting them to continually forcing them to perform arduous tasks in impossible conditions and leaving traps that prevent their escape to their sheer calmness at all of the brutality unleashed and all of their bizarre traditions, they seem weird and creepy which is a great facet that lets the gore really fly in here. The only other thing that works is the final chase through the meat factory which is really great as well, being a really long, brutal and exceptionally gory sequence in a creepy location with an emphasis on suspense and is full of action that soon leads into the great confrontation in the car that ends this in a great manner. These are all that work for the film as this one is a really big disappointment, especially against the first one. The fact that there's very little going is a big one, since it never really does anything interesting for most of the movie with little slashes of interesting scenes here and there, but most of it concerns the group talking or the family making threats against them, and that is a major source of frustration. This is due to them holding them captive for a while and yet there's a long time in between before they start killing with most of that time spent on making threats coupled with pretty mild torture scenes before it leads to killing. There's also the fact that this one also suffers from what the others in the series suffer from, namely the lack of threat from Leatherface as the amount of screen time for Leatherface is quite minimal, making it hard to feel anything but the terror evinced from what he's doing. There's no motive for what's happening and that works even less in building fear for him. That he causes only a couple of deaths is another disappointment, since there's only so much that he can do that at some point it just becomes rudimentary that others would have a higher kill total. That there is the biggest one in lowering the threat of the villain, and also helps to sink the film a lot, as well as its other flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

skybrick736 The origins of Leatherface and the maniacal family that adapted him are front and center in this exhausted prequel. Jonathan Liebesman's take on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is in fact nearly everything that the viewers saw in Nispel's 2003 remake besides the first few scenes. What this film needed was a couple scenario changes instead of the typical teenagers traveling across Texas. Maybe more along of the lines how the family and Leatherface overtook the town they live on, which was briefly mentioned, just something different. Besides the redundant storyline, it didn't stain the franchise or wasn't a complete waste of time in viewing a gruesome, frightening movie.The gore and action shots were definitely present in TCM: The Beginning. Kills scenes have never been more brutal, constant carnage and dragged out, not focusing off-screen. There's also way more chainsaw action than previous films, which was essential for namesake and audience appreciation. The film's casting had performances that were split up between good and bad. R. Lee Emery and Jordana Brewster were great but Taylor Handley and Diora Baird didn't have a favorable screen presence. With this TCM prequel viewers get a gore-fest, a decent beginning story and hit-miss dialogue, it's definitely good if you're a fan.

Davis P This movie offended me in sooo many ways!! This movie is sooo unnecessarily gory, unbelievably disturbing (even compared to the others). The movie was soo pointless and should never have been made! Texas chainsaw massacre (2003) was light years better than this embarrassment. I felt so depressed after this movie. This movie is offensively gory and wayyy too violent. Leatherface saws off the main characters face!!! There is noting left to the imagination here! The acting is very mediocre. The storyline is a complete mess! This movie has absolutely no purpose in this world! And everyone is killed!! I hate it when there isn't that 1 girl left alive to escape in a horror flick! To me someone should ALWAYS survive! But no, not in this crap!