Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D Review:

About a year or so ago I came across an article on FEARnet talking about all the remakes to come. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one of them. It also said it was going to be in 3D. I was on the fence about this since I am not a fan of remakes of classic movies. After seeing the trailer I was instantly hooked. I could tell just by the trailer that this movie was going to rock.

Me and my movie buddy Kameron went to the 9:40pm showing on Wednesday. The good thing about going to see this movie after the opening weekend is that we had the whole entire movie theatre to ourselves. That let us yell at the screen and laugh and make jokes about the female character's boobs.

The movie starts out with clips from the original and I really liked how they did that. The movie picks up from the ending of the original with Sheriff Hooper demanding the Sawyer family to give up the boy (Leatherface) That ends with fatal shoot out between the Sawyer family and the towns people.

After the shoot out Gavin Miller finds Loretta Sawyer hiding behind a truck barely alive while holding her baby. Gavin "adopted" the baby after killing Loretta. Skips to present day where we meet Heather and Nikki talking about their road trip to Florida. Before heading out on their road trip, Heather gets a letter alerting her about the death of her grandmother.

Because of this letter she finds out that she was adopted and she was born in Texas. On the way to Florida they decide to make a stop in Texas to see what Heather's grandmother has left her. They get to Texas and Heather meets with her grandmother's lawyer and checks out the house that has been left to her.

The lawyer gives Heather a letter telling her that it was from her grandmother and she MUST read it asap. Once they all get settled in is when the fun begins to start. When they went out shopping, Darryl, the hitchhiker they picked up on their way starts robbing the house and heads down to the basement to see if he could find a jackpot.

He did find a jackpot, his name is Leatherface. Darryl was our first kill and it was kind of sad to see since Darryl was a looker. ;) The killing continues with leaving Heather all by herself trying to survive Leatherface. After being chased through the Carnival she gets escorted to the police station by the sexy cop Carl.

She finds out that she is a Sawyer and the local towns people killed off her family. She also finds out that Leatherface is her cousin. She reads her grandmother's note which explains that the house is now hers and in the basement lives her cousin Jed Sawyer (Leatherface) She continues telling Heather that he is family bound and he will protect her but he also needs taking care of.

After she finds out that he's her cousin, she begins to help him when two of the towns people, Officer Marvin and Burt Hartman try to kill Leatherface. During that scene you begin to feel bad for Leatherface and pity him. Even though he's a sadistic killer he's still a human being who's mentally challenged and he doesn't know any better. You would think that it's not his fault because he was raised into a very bad family who trained him to be a killer.

So when you look at it, even though he kills all these people he's just doing what he was trained to do. He doesn't go off killing random people, he kills the people that makes him feel like he's being terrorized and he's trying to protect his territory and family. The movie ends with Heather going back to the house with Leatherface and letting him know that she's going to take care of him.

I really, really loved this movie. I thought it was amazing. The kills, the story, the twist and Leatherface. Even though I am not a fan of remakes I have to admit that I have always been pleased with how well they have treated Leatherface. You see a lot of the horror classics being remade and frankly over half of them sucked ass. The Halloween remake wasn't well liked by a lot of people, Friday the 13Th was decent but wasn't amazing. A Nightmare on Elm Street god awful and they fucked up that remake hard. Children of the Corn remake and prequel was horrible.

The remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre was really good, I even liked Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning. I was very pleased with the movie and thought they did a great job. I'm really excited for Texas Chainsaw 4 to come out. I have always been a huge fan of Slasher movies and seeing this movie reminds me of why I'm a big fan how I'll always be a cult follower. I give this movie 5 out of 5 Skulls.