The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Where Turner diverges from the course, explaining aspects of Leatherface and family's origins, the movie is at its worst. Even more than most horror films, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, feels desperately unoriginal. ... Full Review

'Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning' is saved almost entirely by R Lee Ermey, whose performance is so delightfully twisted that it sort of makes everything else watchable. A lot of critics bombed this movie ... Full Review

Jordana Brewster (Chrissie), Matt Bomer (Eric), Taylor Handley (Dean) and Diora Baird (Bailey) are all good and likable as the teens that come across the family.....I love the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, have a love/hate relationship with Part 2, dig Part 3, despise Part 4 and really liked the remake.....On my birthday I went to the theatres, hoping for at least a decent TCM movie....R. Lee Ermey (Sheriff Hoyt/Charlie Hewitt) was the best actor and character of the movie..... ... Full Review

Jordana Brewster (Chrissie), Matt Bomer (Eric), Taylor Handley (Dean) and Diora Baird (Bailey) are all good and likable as the teens that come across the family.....On my birthday I went to the theatres, hoping for at least a decent TCM  movie....R. Lee Ermey (Sheriff Hoyt/Charlie Hewitt) was the best actor and character of the movie..... ... Full Review

you've got one of the worst horror movies ever made.....Such dedication can be beneficial when a movie requires a carefully drawn portrait of a particularly complicated individual.....is interested in is egotistical exchanges and some incredibly gruesome special effects.....Why, they get a god-awful script by Sheldon Turner (responsible for the equally hackneyed Longest Yard remake), hire Australian newcomer Jonathan Liebesman as director....Between the illogical moments where our baddie turns up in places ... Full Review

In a film like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you aren't really looking for a great plot.....The background story of the Hewitt clan and the birth of Leatherface is somewhat interesting....Liebesman and company also do a good job in having the film match the same tone and color schemes of the 2003 remake -.... ... Full Review

the first film only suggested, making for one bloody mess on screen and one bloody mess of a movie.....Still, it had a strong effect on a lot of other filmgoers, who found its grisly blend of humor and mayhem profoundly disturbing..... ... Full Review

Apparently, the remake did well enough at the box office to prompt this 2006 prequel, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. What is unseen can be a whole lot more frightening than what is seen; but I suppose many filmmakers, particularly young ones, are so unsure of themselves and their skills, they feel the necessity of showing us everything to be sure we get it. ... Full Review

For a major studio production, this film, particularly in the un-rated cut provided on this DVD, is astonishingly gruesome even by horror movie standards.....While this film succeeds on a few levels, sadly it fails on too many others.....appeals to horror movie fans and not so much to the mainstream audiences who will no doubt feel alienated by the severity of this picture.....Obviously there are a lot worse movies out there in terms of what is shown on screen....New Line has now reinserted that grisly foot ... Full Review

If horror movies are expressions of our basest fears....it's not, say, Slither , tweaking conventions of horror films for fun.....which was not based on a true story of cannibals preying on teenage tourists in rural Texas....Beginning purports to be the "real" story that inspired Tobe Hooper's 70s classic --....This is a sickening orgy of torture imagery and graphic physical mutilation.... ... Full Review