Texas Chainsaw Massacre Review

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Because of their relatively concise nature, it isn’t often that a slasher comes across like a hodgepodge of several scripts. Usually, the film wastes no time getting to the blood and guts and leaves the more sophisticated horror narratives to the more daring filmmakers. Texas Chainsaw Massacre feels like it started off heading in that elevated horror direction, but then took a whiplash-inducing left turn towards violence.

In the spirit of Halloween (2018), Texas Chainsaw Massacre picks up the threads of the original film’s story, only 50 years later. Sisters Melody (Sarah Yarkin) and Lila (Elsie Fisher) are in Texas to auction off property that Melody and her partner Dante (Jacob Lattimore) have purchased, but they find one building occupied by a sickly old woman and her mysterious son. As one might expect, a seemingly innocent effort to modernize the small community leads to Leatherface (Mark Burnham) being let loose.

There’s a bit more to Leatherface’s killing spree, but it isn’t much more complicated than «big tall man kill lots of people wearing human face as mask.» The film tries to humanize him just a little bit, but it’s not enough to change the status quo. Leatherface is still a mindless killing machine, and director David Blue Garcia lets him indulge those violent urges to a staggering degree.

Horror fans that are just looking for a tight 85 minutes of exceedingly gory kills and tense cat and mouse chases will find that Texas Chainsaw Massacre delivers. In 1974 there wasn’t a lot that the filmmakers could do with a madman wielding a chainsaw that would look believable. In 2022, special effects and makeup have evolved so much that any permutation of chainsaw-through-flesh is possible. At times, the violence is