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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning features an expedition of the tools of murder, when a face-off between four friends on a road trip and some bikers leads to terror and killings.
11 July 1952, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
25 November 1947, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
2 October 1967, USA
7 July 1972, Austin, Texas, USA
25 May 1968, Seguin, Texas, USA
24 March 1944, Emporia, Kansas, USA
26 April 1980, Panama City, Panama
20 June 1934, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 April 1983, Miami, Florida, USA
May 22, 2008
...an ugly film, overwhelmed by transparent shock value, short-sighted storytelling and nihilistic undertones.
October 09, 2006
The story's been played out so many times.
October 28, 2006
Oppressive, mean-spirited and sadistic, The Beginning is an unsavoury exercise in cruelty and pain that one hopes will also be the end.
November 22, 2010
This is the Texas chainsaw massacre, not the Texas chainsaw misunderstanding. Nothing castrates a bogeyman like cheap-Freud psychology, and Leatherface possesses no greater power than a hulking professional-wrestling heel. A low point in American horror.
October 18, 2006
Attention sadists: Demand more from your gorefests than this pro forma return to the well. Has mass murder ever been this dull?
April 29, 2009
Much less at the beginning, and much more a remake of the remake...
October 09, 2006
All you need to know about the character is he's really crazy and carries a chain saw. And he's got an even crazier uncle who all but steals the film.
July 15, 2008
The original "Chain Saw Massacre" spoke, in unsettling terms, to middle America's growing contempt for the '60s counter-culture, but no deeper meaning can be ascribed to this mayhem. It's just a joyless technical exercise.
October 13, 2006
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning relies on made-you-jump shocks and more fake entrails than a Jaycees haunted house.
July 06, 2008
A rote latter-day slasher film with barely anything worth recommending.
March 21, 2011
It's actually closer to the original Chainsaw than its immediate predecessor, but it still relies on more on physical torture than the psychological terror that made the original - or any genuinely scary movie - so effective.
October 28, 2006
Gross and sadistic but never scary.
