DIRECTOR: JOHN LUESSENHOP
WRITERS: ADAM MARCUS, DEBRA SULLIVAN, AND KRISTEN ELMS (SCREENPLAY). STEPHEN SUSCO, ADAM MARCUS, AND DEBRA SULLIVAN (STORY). KIM HENKEL AND TOBE HOOPER (CHARACTERS).
STARRING: ALEXANDRA DADDARIO, TANIA RAYMONDE, AND SCOTT EASTWOOD
Leatherface is back and is surprisingly cooler than ever! I saw this movie the weekend it came out...I strategically missed every single preview as a result of watching a lesbian lovers quarrel take place in the parking. From this moment on I knew this movie date was an instant win!
I can't honestly say that I've watched the original film, although I'm 99% sure it resides in my DVD collection. I was never a fan of the sequels that came out, with the exception of the 2003 remake that starred Jessica Biel. This most modernized version held its own little slice of originality. Oh, and let's pretend this movie isn't in 3D because my loathe for wearing those instant migraine, sorry excuse for glasses is long enough for its own blog site.
Pretty much, it started out with the main character finding out she's adopted and is a cousin of Jed, better known as Leatherface. She inherits the estate where her grandmother lived after being one of the two sole survivors of a fire the town people set on their original home. Obviously, the big-tittied main character missed the memo that Leatherface was the second survivor.
Eventually the house turns into a bloody clusterfuck with dead bodies everywhere, but if this didn't happen, many people including myself would have left the theater without their psychotic thirst for blood quenched. More importantly and significantly, there are a few aesthetics I mentally noted!
I say this in every blog...I love flashbacks and they were scattered throughout the movie. When the title came on screen in the beginning it flew through the theater as all 3D titles do, but this one was more like slices rather than an explosion. This foreshadowing told me there would be a significant slice in the movie. As expected there were many chainsaw slices that took place, however, there was one scene in the end that I feel was crucial.
In the beginning, while the main characters were driving to the estate, they passed roadkill. The camera paused on this roadkill for enough seconds to make me think it must mean something. I won't be able to figure it out until I buy the DVD where I have the ability to pause, but something tells me it was more than just a couple of dead possums or whatever they were. Perhaps the fact that there were two animal bodies foreshadowed that a second survivor came out of the fire, which would be Leatherface. Or maybe the roadkill are animals that are known for being really family oriented...this would make sense because of the little twist in the end where Leatherface actually has a conscience. Orrr maybe I'm thinking too much into this...
Sorry to spoil the end, but I have to say it...I loved how Leatherface didn't kill his cousin. I totally dig this for two reasons. One is this never happens. Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers never purposely left a survivor. The second reason I like this is because it is realistic that a serial killer did not look at his family as their next victims. I never heard that Ted Bundy killed any of his family members...or Dexter for that matter haha.
I did enjoy this movie, however, I wish there were more unique killing scenes. I loved how a victim was hiding in a quiet coffin only for the silence to be shattered by the chainsaw coming through the wood! There should have been more of these scenes! In the beginning, the main characters pick up a hitch hiker that obviously led to more trouble for them, but what the fuck was the relevance of this? I think that whole concept should have been chopped in the first draft. Those minutes would have been much better spent on more in depth and bloodier torture scenes!
I feel like this movie got terrible reviews and is said to be predictable, but seriously, what else is supposed to happen in a Texas Chainsaw remake that isn't expected? I thought the unique touches were coo; and it was a scary success!
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