The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

You won't be disappointed!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I can just see the look on Jordana Brewster's face as she looked at this film's screenplay & muttered under her breath "Really? I got to do one of these things!" Neither terrifying or horrific in any sense of the words, the prequel to the 70's classic skews more to the Strangers/Saw movies than anything approximating a good film. When will the makers of these types of films realize we need someone to root for. By providing context of the background of the killers we know who'll survive, what investment do we have in watching this dreck? Until film goers start voting w/their wallets & ignore this crap we're going to keep getting it & w/this title's pedigree, the ol' charnel conveyor belt will have material for years to come.

I thought that this film had the exact same format as the remake predecessor. It satisfied the stunning lead lady criteria and checked the chainsaw killing box with a big bold tick. The effects are gory, the woman damn sexy and the whole thing just a formulaic copy of the less than original remake. At least the sequel to the original did something sufficiently different to distinguish it from its predecessor. This satisfies as a wild ride that will leave you on the edge of your seat or hiding behind your fingers without originality.

It's been awhile since I've watched this prequel to the 2003 remake, and it's much better than I remembered. It is incredibly gory and more 'over the top' than the original. I love ridiculous amounts of gore. Since this was a prequel, they should have explored Leatherface's childhood more, but they glance over it slightly during the credits. Hopefully the next prequel will show some. (They are making a prequel to the 1974 classic) This film takes place in 1969, set four years before the events of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake. Two brothers named Dean and Eric are on there way to enlist in the Vietnam War. Eric wants to stay with his girlfriend, Bailey. Dean is engaged to Chrissie. On their way, they are attacked by bikers and soon run into Sheriff Hoyt, played again by the vicious R. Lee Ermey. We see how Thomas Hewitt becomes the infamous 'Leatherface' and his first time torturing his victims with a chainsaw. If you love violence, extreme gore, and prequels, you'll love THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING!!!

The year is 1969 and a microcosm in South Texas has ultimately decided to pull a fast one.What matters here and now is not something as ill-conceived as superstitious religion but it is the fact that the Hewitt (previously Sawyer) family can manage to be themselves that I find very informative.At the absolute last minute it becomes amazingly clear the family's fortunes have been as extremely off-set by self-deluded status seekers (glory-hounds, yuppies, etc) that it effectively necessitates a blood bath.The underlining question to the story in this franchise is: Can the impostors get away fast enough?The Hewitt family shines in the land of South Texas.