Anyone else watch this stinker? What I thought would be fun and forgettable turned out to be horrid and plain old DUMB. Like duuuuuuuuumb. Like shockingly bad. And not even remotely in a good way. Like waking up and realizing you had a dream about Leatherface that made no sense at all. Because you ate some greasy rich food the night before.
And worse: you craved, and I mean CRAVED, the main stars dying horrible deaths. And that doesn't mean I was rooting for Leatherface either. Because I wasn't. He was equally as annoying as the young actors were. And then there was Sally Hardesty. Who turned out to be just more to hate.
Everything was wrong. Literally everything. Well, maybe not the score (that was pretty cool).
There was a part, and I'm not spoiling anything, where the aged Leatherface smashes his chainsaw out from behind a wall, where it was hidden for like fifty years, and it starts right up. Now, as a man who owns a lawnmower and dreads that first pull of the cord every spring due to it choking and stalling out, I found this idea to be lunacy. But that right there is nitpicking, and you don't need to nitpick this film to realize it was dreadful.
The kills and gore were just "odd" too. The "mask" was bizarre and magically stayed on his face (if you watched it, you'll know what I mean).
I've been reading reviews and comments and I'm not seeing the hate I was expecting. Horror fans are cutting this thing some major slack. I hate to bring it up again, but I'm thinking of my blog post about the recent, and wonderful, Candyman film, and all the seething toxic hatred that film garnered. The notion that ANY horror fan is giving Netflix's Texas Chainsaw Massacre ANY kind of break but piled on Candyman is proof of SOMETHING. I'm just trying to figure out what that something is.
Here's to the original!
