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Texas Chainsaw Massacre (DVD) |
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14/03/05 (64 review reads) |
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Advantages: great horror movie, shocking
Disadvantages: none,well, maybe too scary for some !
This is a re-make of an original masterpiece in cinema history! A job very well done, here is my review broken down into four sections; Story Line, Cast, DVD Special Features and Conclusion. I've included a lot of detail in my story line part, sorry if it spoils the film, but it's a good movie!
Story Line
The story starts by having five friends (Erin, Kemper, Andy, Morgan, and Pepper) coming back from a trip to Mexico where they have brought a load of weed. On the way back home they go through a town in the middle of nowhere, where they find a girl walking along the road. They nearly run her over and stop to find out what she was thinking of?walking along in
the middle of road. They pick her up and she is very upset and saying that make no sense to friends. After trying to stop Kemper from driving the car, because he's going the wrong way (according to girl), she pulls out a gun from between her legs, puts the barrel in her mouth and pulls the trigger. Suicide.
The friends are distraught and feel the need to contact the sheriff (lots of mixed emotions from all the friends, because of the drugs!) They agree that they should contact the law and explain what has happened. They stop at a shop and ask to call the sheriff. The old weird lady phones the sheriff for tem and they are told that the sheriff will meet them at the "Old Crawford Mill". After much arguing about what to do, dump the body or go and meet the sheriff at this strange location, they decide to go and meet him.
After arriving at the mill, the sheriff doesn't show up, so Kemper and Erin go searching for the sheriffs' house (according to the little boy at mill) but instead of the sheriff, there's an old man in a wheel chair. Erin wants to use the phone so she goes in, and Kemper searches the house before being hit on the head by Leatherface. Erin leaves and heads back to the car.
While this is all going on the sheriff turns up at the mill, they wrap the dead girl up in cling film (yep, strange) and put her in the boot of the sheriff's car and he goes off. Erin goes back to the rest of the gang and then she and Andy go back to the house to try and find Kemper. While trying to look for him, Leatherface makes an appearance and goes after the two friends, the old man who owns the house tries to stop them but fails. Outside the house, Andy is Leatherface's main target, he looses his leg and is taken back to the house and hung on a hook (you might remember this from the original)
Erin escapes and manages to get back to the van where Erin and Morgan are waiting.
The sheriff returns and he suspects them of killing the girl and finds the weed that they have been smoking. He torments them and has Morgan run through exactly what happened with the girl, he has to put the gun into his mouth, he is so scared, he turns the gun on the cop and pulls the trigger...but the gun isn't loaded. The sheriff takes Morgan on attempted
murder.
Leatherface decides to make an appearance again once the sheriff has left and he is
going after Erin and Pepper, Erin hotwires the car but the wheels fall off. Leatherface cuts through the van and tries cutting through the roof of the van to try and get the girls. He is wearing the face of Erin's murdered boyfriend. Erin runs away, but Pepper is murdered.
Erin ends up hiding in a trailer, which is occupied by two women and a baby (I find this the most rememberble part of the film because it is so freaky). It looks like Erin has been drugged and the next thing she wakes up in the family home of Leatherface.
Erin is taken to the basement, which is like the killing room, where she finds Andy
hanging on a hook, she teams up with Morgan who is still alive and they have to escape. I've given a bit too much away; I've got a bit too much into things! It's a film that's very rememberble.
Cast
Jessica Biel as Erin
Jonathan Tucker as Morgan
Erica Leerhsen as Pepper
Mike Vogel as Andy
Eric Balfour as Kemper
Andrew Bryniarski as Thomas Hewitt (Leatherface)
R. Lee Ermey as Sheriff Hoyt
David Dorfman as Jedidiah
Lauren German as Teenage Girl
Terrence Evans as Old Monty
Marietta Marich as Luda May
Heather Kafka as Henrietta
Kathy Lamkin as Tea Lady in Trailer
Brad Leland as Big Rig Bob
Mamie Meek as the Clerk
DVD Special Features
The Two-disk edition comes with a DVD completely packed full of special features,
make sure to check out the Ed Gein documentary which was the true life inspiration behind the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, interesting and shocking! A whole disk dedicated to special features and top quality content too, the on location documentaries that film behind the scenes are brilliant as you get to know the cast a little better.
Conclusions
After seeing this advertised on television, magazines and newspapers I finally
decided to go and buy this DVD which I thought would be a total disaster, remakes of original's usually are! But I was pleasantly surprised, this film has been done exceptionally well.
The alterations to story lines have worked well, the overall feeling and mood of the
film is eyrie and makes the shocks and macabre of this film extra hitting to the audience, it has brought something new over the original film, and the cast is brilliant. R. Lee Ermey as Sheriff Hoyt, is amazing, what a sadistic madman! He starred in the movie Full Metal Jacket, so this is an idea of the sort of talent he can bring to a role like this.
This film is seen as really bloody and gory, but I don't think the gore has been over
used at all, it's the right mix for a scary movie, and it's a massacre, right? (And after watching the special features on this DVD, it could have been a hell of a lot gorier, to the point of that's just too much)
The bad points, it's the average horror movie that will have you saying, "don't go in there!" and "why not just leave" that can become very frustrating (but I suppose that's just horror films!), but that is how this remake is turned into an xceptionally scary film.
This is a must buy for any horror movie fan!
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jatkinson100 - 15/03/05 I always think that many horror films rely on the blood and guts rather than the creation of a script which makes you care about the characters and their fate. They always seem a little too twee for me. Good op.
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