![]() ![]() The ending goes on too long, but whereas the original as intense and relentless with the horror in its last act, here, the ending does feel long. The run time is listed (on the IMDB as 81 minutes and yet it feels longer. Mark Burnham makes an effective Leatherface too.īut the overall feel of the film is that lacks something, that spark to really bring it to life. ![]() The cast, consisting of Elsie Fisher, Sarah Yarkin, Jacob Latimore, Alice Krige and Olwen Fouere aren’t bad, doing their best with the poorly written characters. It’s a well done set piece, though one that will have the audience eyerolling. ![]() It doesn’t skimp on the gore, as Leatherface cuts loose (literally!), especially when he attacks a bus full of potential investors, who rather than run at the sight of a masked man with a chainsaw, instead use their phones to live stream. He stages the violence and death scenes pretty good on the whole. Of course as Leatherface goes on the rampage, that sympathy comes back to the others, but you still don’t care enough about them.īut if the film is badly written, the direction from David Blue Garcia isn’t too bad. ![]() In fact, they are so badly written that in first act, you have more sympathy for Leatherface than any of them. As characters, ones you are supposed to care about when the horror and violence begins, they are very poorly written. Instead the focus is Dante and Melody who are behind the plans to invest in the town, along with Melody’s sister, Lila, who is the survivor of a school shooting and Ruth, Dante’s fiance. Here, writer Chris Thomas Devlin, working from a story by Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues brings back Sally Hardesty, the lone survivor from the original film…then completely waste the character. This is partly what made the Halloween film work so well.īut what also made Halloween work well, was bringing back Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie and crucially give her a storyline that works. It means audiences don’t have to go through all the follow-up films to know everything going on. Story-wise too, there is a slight influence of the likes of John Wick (no, really) in that Leatherface has gone into hiding living a quiet life, only to return to violence when a tragedy occurs. When it was announced they were making another film, it became apparent they were taking the route of 2018’s Halloween, by ignoring all of the films that had followed the original, instead being a direct follow-up. Of the ones I’ve seen, I have to be honest, I wasn’t impressed with any of them apart from the original classic. All these films are by all accounts of varying quality. Of the films made, I did see the remake, the prequel, the 3D one and Leatherface. Trying to follow any sort of chronological strand is, likely to be impossible. There was even a film made in 2000 called All American Massacre, directed by William Tony Hooper (Tobe’s son) that seemingly has never been released. But after this we got another seven films, ones trying to continue from Part 2, others being their own thing, we got a remake, a prequel to that, a 3D version and an origin of sorts for Leatherface. To be honest, I can’t recall that much about it. In 1986, Hooper made the sequel, one I saw a very long time ago. It’s undoubtedly a horror classic, a film that may well be the most intense, relentless horror film ever made. Over the years since Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel unleashed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on the world, its reputation has grown. However, they soon discover that one resident has a man staying with her, one who has hidden away for almost 50 years…. The almost deserted town of Harlow is where friends plan to reinvest and bring the town back to life. ![]()
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