It has been many years since I saw Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”. I have seen one sequel or spin off called “TCM: The Next Generation” and the more recent reboots of the franchise under Michael Bay’s banner, which was a mediocre update to 2000‘s horror. I thought maybe that it would take more than a few years before Hollywood takes on Leatherface again. Well, director John Luessenhop won’t let the franchise die just yet … more
One of the things that we critics do from time to time is we check out what our competition is saying. There’s nothing wrong with knowing what others thought of a particular motion picture. Sometimes it gives us some peace of mind – a kind of cultural vindication – in knowing we’re not alone in what we thought about a certain performance or a specific script or even an action sequence or two. Other times? Well, it makes some of us feel … more