The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(2003).Driving through the backwoods of Texas, five youths pick up a traumatized hitchhiker, who shoots herself in their van. Shaken by the suicide, the group seeks help from the locals, but their situation becomes even more surreal when they knock on the door of a remote homestead. It's quickly apparent the residents are a family of inbred psychopaths, and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives. In hot pursuit is a disfigured, chainsaw-wielding cannibal known as Leatherface. Written byLove Hewitt... Synopsis The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(2003)
Movie Title: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(2003)
Run Time: 98 min
Rating: 6.1 / 10
Genres: Horror
Release Date: 17 October 2003 (USA)
Director: Marcus Nispel
Writer: Kim Henkel,Tobe Hooper, more credit ... and other credits
Actor: Jessica Biel,Jonathan Tucker,Andrew Bryniarski
Not bad for a re-make of course it didn't have quite the impact of the original. It did a decent job building tension and there was a darker atmosphere to the location, made it seem more nightmarish.
Obviously the film had some advantages from a bigger budget, and R. Lee Ermey is definitely worth watching. As for the family, you had an almost twisted take on 'the dirty south', or in this case southwest, people being more bizarre caricatures, but with the darker and more atmospheric setting it works.
Interstingly, it seems to lack the social commentary of the original, but that is very common with remakes these days. Though there is extensive use of rather effective foreshadowing in numerous scenes.
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