Michael Bay's Texas Chainsaw Massacre (DVD) Reviews

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of those classic horror films that manages to aptly capture a sense of time and place like only very few offerings in the genre. Tobe Hooper became a legend of the horror genre as a result, and the film in many ways reflected the end of the ...  Read the complete review

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was inspired by 'serial killer' Ed Gein, as were many of the slasher films at the time (Halloween and Psycho for example) and was made in 1973. Three sequels then followed the original, the latest before the 2003 installment being in 1994. Michael Bay's take on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre would be ...  Read the complete review

In Channel 4's 100 Scariest Moments programme, Tobe Hooper's 1973 original Texas Chainsaw Massacre featured in the top ten. I could never really see the big deal to be honest. For me, the original movie has dated considerably and where once we were supposed to be horrified, I could only really be amused. Thirty years later a remake was released ...  Read the complete review

"Cabin Fever" helmer Eli Roth said it best: "You don't f**k with the Holy Grail." Especially when the guys doing the "f**k**g" are bloatbuster helmer Michael Bay and Marcus Nispel, a pop-promo slickster who's never made a feature film. You can see it now- the lone female survivor stumbling into a blood-red dawn, a ...  Read the complete review

Tim Burton has a lot to answer for. Even since his poor, but finanically successful "re-imagining" of Planet Of The Apes, it seems Hollywood is falling over itself to produce as many "new" films using the names of classic ones, but little else. Few of these films have much in common with the ...  Read the complete review