Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning (DVD) Reviews

Texas Chainsaw; The Beginning is a somewhat unnessecary prequel to the recent remake of the original Tobe Hooper horror flick that was banned for many years by the BBFC presumably simply for the crime of featuring a chainsaw. Having seen the original a couple of times since subsequently being released, I see little other reason why it may have ...  Read the complete review

Its not going to get a high rating as it's so bad. The film does manage to tie up quite a lot of the loose ends and questions from the remake of the original, things like how Leatherface (whose real name turns out to be Thomas Hewitt!) came to be (you also get to see a little of his childhood which gives you clues as to why he's so crazy) as well ...  Read the complete review

"The Texas Chiansaw Massacre", directed by Tobe Hooper (also responsible for good efforts like "Poltergeist" and real stinkers like "Mortuary") in 1973, is universally acclaimed as one of the best horror movies ever. To be precise, more than a standard horror, this is a teen slasher (read: psycho massacres group of ...  Read the complete review

For the follow up to Marcus Nispel’s 2003 remake of the 1974 classic horror, Jonathan Liebesman opts to try something a little different. Rather than simply follow up the grisly events of 1974 with more grisly events thereafter, Liebesman instead takes us back to 1969 in order that we can discover a little more about the notorious family that was ...  Read the complete review