The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Unrated

10/5/20061h 31m

Premiere Release (US)

~ What you know about fear... doesn't even come close. ~

Overview:

Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.

Director:

Jonathan Liebesman

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$16,000,000.00

Revenue:

$50,517,763.00

Key words:

war veteran
sadism
psychopath
mass murder
gore
knife
biker
prequel
murder
serial killer
leatherface
slaughterhouse
slasher
chainsaw
torture
cruelty
series of murders
cannibal
severed foot
meat hook
severed hand
1960s

Cast

Jordana Brewster

~ as ~

Chrissie

Taylor Handley

~ as ~

Dean

Diora Baird

~ as ~

Bailey

Matt Bomer

~ as ~

Eric

R. Lee Ermey

~ as ~

Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt

Lew Temple

~ as ~

Sheriff Winston Hoyt

Andrew Bryniarski

~ as ~

Thomas Hewitt / Leatherface

Tim DeZarn

~ as ~

Slaughterhouse Supervisor

Lee Tergesen

~ as ~

Holden

Cyia Batten

~ as ~

Alex

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Reviews (1)

JPV852
Written 3 month(s) ago
5
I saw this film when it first came out on DVD back in 2006 or 07 and didn't think much of it. And my opinion pretty much remains, some great and gnarly gore that rode the line from horror to torture porn, but R. Lee Ermey was greatly sadistic and, as with Jessica Biel in TCM '05, the camera focused pretty well on Jordana Brewster's ass. I thought this one didn't have any memorable characters to make me care about their plight and the ending was laughable at just how nimble and sneaky the bulky Leatherface was somehow hide in the backseat and let our potential Final Girl drive away only to chainsaw her from the backseat (reminds me on how Mrs. Vorhees was able to take a knife through Kevin Bacon's chest from underneath a bed).

I wanted to like this one and there are some things to admire with its gore effects and some very grim and dark humor, it's not a good movie but better than the subsequent outings that followed this (Texas Chainsaw 3D, Leatherface and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022). 2.5/5