So a group of young people get stuck in the middle of southern Texas. They end up at this strange house with a guy who wears a mask.....wait...I think I have seen this one already.....yup....I was right.
This pointless prequel essentially copies the same boring story line from the first film. It adds little side stories like how Leatherface makes his human mask and how Sheriff Hoyt becomes a man of law enforcement. Other than that expect the same gratuitous gore, violence, and screams. Like the 2003 remake, this film fails to capture what made the 1973 original a horror classic, it shows too much. These last two "updates" are too stylized in terms of dark cinematography and grotesqueness. The original didn't necessarily show all that much and is much more scary because of it. This film has some scare-tactics with its moody music and "pop-ups", but it becomes very bland and tired. I thought this film would take a chance and tell us a little more about how Leatherface gets so demented and psychotic, but no such luck.
This pointless prequel essentially copies the same boring story line from the first film. It adds little side stories like how Leatherface makes his human mask and how Sheriff Hoyt becomes a man of law enforcement. Other than that expect the same gratuitous gore, violence, and screams. Like the 2003 remake, this film fails to capture what made the 1973 original a horror classic, it shows too much. These last two "updates" are too stylized in terms of dark cinematography and grotesqueness. The original didn't necessarily show all that much and is much more scary because of it. This film has some scare-tactics with its moody music and "pop-ups", but it becomes very bland and tired. I thought this film would take a chance and tell us a little more about how Leatherface gets so demented and psychotic, but no such luck.