No, not Tobe Hooper's 1974 masterpiece, this putrid little film offers nothing as far as a "reinvisioning", unless of course your idea of improvements are rampant profanity, drug use, buckets of blood and the moderatly tasteful but nonetheless blatant use of the rather curvaceous assets of Misses Jessica Biel and Erica Leerhsen.
This is a film made for those people who today think of a horror film as the latest cute actors/actresses, buckets of blood, soundtracks and the concept of suspense being a "scary noise". Acting is laughable it's so bad, with the exception of a wonderfully insane R. Lee Ermey.
Why is Hooper's film a legend and this one a joke? Well, for starters, it's scarier when we don't know why. The explanation of Thomas Hewitt's (Leatherface) reasoning behind the killing is straight out of the Columbine report (he was teased). Secondly, Marilyn Burns' mad hysterics in the classic is offset by the humorous attempt at it by Biel and Leerhsen. Biel makes so much noise while trying to hide that I was about to grab the saw and show Hewitt where she was.
There used to be 4 words against remakes of classics..they were "Gus Van Sant's Psycho". Now, (at least till I see the new Dawn) there are 5 "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003"
0 out of 5
This is a film made for those people who today think of a horror film as the latest cute actors/actresses, buckets of blood, soundtracks and the concept of suspense being a "scary noise". Acting is laughable it's so bad, with the exception of a wonderfully insane R. Lee Ermey.
Why is Hooper's film a legend and this one a joke? Well, for starters, it's scarier when we don't know why. The explanation of Thomas Hewitt's (Leatherface) reasoning behind the killing is straight out of the Columbine report (he was teased). Secondly, Marilyn Burns' mad hysterics in the classic is offset by the humorous attempt at it by Biel and Leerhsen. Biel makes so much noise while trying to hide that I was about to grab the saw and show Hewitt where she was.
There used to be 4 words against remakes of classics..they were "Gus Van Sant's Psycho". Now, (at least till I see the new Dawn) there are 5 "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003"
0 out of 5