Reviews

To me nothing will ever top the classic TCM. The grit, the low budget, the cinematography, and the set props are all just so iconic and original. This remake though, deserves respect for getting closer to any other TCM before it's time and since. Young mostly unknown actors, a healthier and scarier leatherface, a beautifully haunting farmhouse that brings just a sense of dread on film. Touch in some " true crime" black and white footage and a morbid narration of the events and you feel like this is as real as any movie. Left only with a "case still open" statement at the end of the film. I was 10 when this movie came out and it kept me awake until I was 11.

Not as bad as 3D, but pretty close. I think they should just stop making these movies. They're just made for money and fail to capture any atmosphere of the original masterpiece. That being said, this movie does give you some kids to not like, some cool kills, and a decent ending scene. There is no originality, and bringing the Sally Hardesty character back just to have her say dumb stuff and then thrown in the trash,(Literally thrown in the trash) is kind of a smack in the face. I don't need to know anything else about the original final girl after the last shots of the original. That's what makes it so scary. How do they miss this, every producer thinks explaining the unexplained helps their movie and in reality it just makes it less frightening.