The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Two young men Eric and Dean are spending their last weekend with their girlfriends Christie and Bailey before entering the overseas war. They have a car accident and three of them are kidnapped by the local sheriff to his house. Christie follows them in order to save their friends without noticed of starting a horror journey in the house of an insane murder.
25 May 1968, Seguin, Texas, USA
11 July 1952, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
20 June 1934, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 October 1977, Webster Groves, Missouri, USA
8 July 1965, Ivoryton, Connecticut, USA
24 March 1944, Emporia, Kansas, USA
7 July 1972, Austin, Texas, USA
1 June 1984, Santa Barbara, California, USA
26 January 1972, Locust Valley, New York, USA
6 April 1983, Miami, Florida, USA
25 November 1947, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
13 February 1969, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 April 1980, Panama City, Panama
2 October 1967, USA
July 15, 2008
The original "Chain Saw Massacre" spoke, in unsettling terms, to middle America's growing contempt for the '60s counter-culture, but no deeper meaning can be ascribed to this mayhem. It's just a joyless technical exercise.
July 06, 2008
A rote latter-day slasher film with barely anything worth recommending.
May 22, 2008
...an ugly film, overwhelmed by transparent shock value, short-sighted storytelling and nihilistic undertones.
November 22, 2010
This is the Texas chainsaw massacre, not the Texas chainsaw misunderstanding. Nothing castrates a bogeyman like cheap-Freud psychology, and Leatherface possesses no greater power than a hulking professional-wrestling heel. A low point in American horror.
October 13, 2006
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning relies on made-you-jump shocks and more fake entrails than a Jaycees haunted house.
March 21, 2011
It's actually closer to the original Chainsaw than its immediate predecessor, but it still relies on more on physical torture than the psychological terror that made the original - or any genuinely scary movie - so effective.
October 09, 2006
The story's been played out so many times.
October 28, 2006
Gross and sadistic but never scary.
April 29, 2009
Much less at the beginning, and much more a remake of the remake...
October 18, 2006
Attention sadists: Demand more from your gorefests than this pro forma return to the well. Has mass murder ever been this dull?
October 09, 2006
All you need to know about the character is he's really crazy and carries a chain saw. And he's got an even crazier uncle who all but steals the film.
October 28, 2006
Oppressive, mean-spirited and sadistic, The Beginning is an unsavoury exercise in cruelty and pain that one hopes will also be the end.
