Thomas and Uncle Charlie kill the entire Sheriff's department and Uncle Charlie impersonates Sheriff Hoyt. In 1969, the slaughterhouse is condemned. Thomas Hewitt/Leatherface grew up working in the Texas slaughterhouse despite being discarded as a baby by Uncle Charlie Hewitt (R. Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 4 / 10 nothing new in prequel of remake And so there you have it – more gore than before but no new ideas in another ultimately bland and pointless teen terror flick. Lee Ermey has a ball as an absolutely despicable bad guy. Bryniarski looks the part as Leatherface but lacks the hulking, quiet menace that Gunnar Hansen brought to the role, although R. Jordana Brewster, the skinny heroine, is particularly bland and unremarkable, and I think the buxom blonde Diora Baird would have made for a far better 'scream queen'. The cast members are pretty predictable – the usual bunch of bland twentysomethings who you don't really care about or engage with as they get variously slaughtered in gruesome ways. The blood flows freely and there's an emphasis on sadism and repellent torture and barbarity that makes this hard to watch at the same time, you quickly become desensitised to it all, unlike in a film such as HOSTEL where my heart was pounding throughout. Skin is flayed off, people's faces are removed and the living are chainsawed into pieces, all shown in gritty, close-up detail. In a film market saturated by the likes of HOSTEL and SAW, this is a film that goes all out to become the grisliest Texas Chainsaw movie yet. Jump scares and outrageous gore are no match for a good script and atmosphere, and THE BEGINNING is missing the latter two, although the gore is here in spades. I'm thinking of the likes of WRONG TURN, MANHUNT none of them are offering anything new, just more of the same. You know, I'm getting mighty tired of these backwoods/rural/mutant/woodland killer films of late, because they're all the same: no story, just endless chases, captures and escapes. It's just a shame that look is wasted in such a mundane and routine film. However, THE BEGINNING does manage to capture some of the raw grittiness of the original film, something that the last few sequels and the remake were missing perhaps it's the period setting or the bleached cinematography, but this is a film that has the right 'look' to it. His 'family' are all crazy and have always been that way. Leatherface has no origin: he's just a brutal, faceless killer, a hulking he-man with a taste for flesh. Those expecting enlightenment will come away sorely disappointed – but maybe that's the point. In reality, the first twenty minutes are the 'prequel' bit, and then the film becomes just another formula movie with the same elements – a vehicle full of youths runs foul of the inhabitants of the remote farmhouse and are butchered one by one. This time, the latest film in the Texas Chainsaw series (the sixth to date) is a prequel to the remake, claiming to reveal the origins behind Leatherface and show the viewer how this sadistic, inhuman killer and his mad family came to exist. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 5 / 10 Probably the goriest Texas Chainsaw yet, although there's nothing new hereĪnd so the cycle goes on. Christie follows them trying to rescue the trio, trapped in the house of sadistic and insane cannibals, in a trip of horror and gore.-Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Nicole Moore, Detroit, Michigan When the group has a car accident, Hoyt arrests Eric, Dean and Bailey and brings them to his house. Meanwhile, the brothers Eric and Dean are traveling in a Jeep with their girlfriends Christie and Bailey, Eric to serve in Vietnam and Dean escaping to Mexico. His deranged brother (considered his uncle due to their age difference) executes the sheriff that is going to arrest Thomas, and assumes his identity, wearing his clothes,driving his car though the roads in Texas and entitling himself as Sheriff Hoyt. In July, 1969, when the facility is closed, the inhabitants move to other places, but the deformed, mentally childlike Thomas flies into a rage after being insulted and kills the foreman. Along the years, the mentally retarded and disturbed boy called Thomas is raised by the Hewitt family in spite of having psychological problems as well as suffering from an unnamed skin disorder, later working in a meat packing plant. The possibly orphaned baby is dumped in a garbage container and found by a beggar later, who brings him home. In August, 1939, a worker goes into labor while working in a slaughterhouse and dies after a complicated labor, though the deformed child survives.
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