Leatherface

Bitch I've seen leatherface be born like 9 times now , we don't care or need it.

I know a lot of slasher film fans hate when they reveal the slasher's origins and thereby suck whatever mystery there might be in such rigidly formulaic mindlessness, but I hate most slasher films & welcome any story that attempts to offer something more than the template of uninteresting teens getting offed. This also has plenty of dumb plot contrivances but it does a decent job of keeping you uncertain as to Leatherface's identity & best of all: the teens in this case are also the lunatics.

Before he became a legendary mask-clad villain wielding an iconic weapon, we meet him in the prequel as a young boy from nowhere who grows into a handsome teen under a rigid order. He falls for a pretty sympathetic brunette and after a battle sneaks off with her, but is then sadly seduced by darkness, goes on a killing spree, attacks his love interest by the neck, and finally dons the mask to conceal his injuries, now the villain we always knew. Darth Vader? No, I'm talking about Leatherface!

The worst kind of origin stories are those which try to make you think that which you already know *will* happen may *not* happen. But it does...because, well, you know... So, for 90 minutes we get to watch leatherless-face be nice and shit until he magically transforms into the chainsaw-brandishing, time-space-defying "he's behind you, now he's in front of you" leatherful-face Tobe Hooper (though, probably Steven Spielberg) envisioned 30+ years earlier.

Fantastically shot movie. Acting more than good for a slasher movie. Well, except Dorff who is takigg whole movie to the ground.Rednecks kills his daughter (!),very violently at that and all he focuses is how to get little kid (and then all the little kids from pathological families). This seem pretty stupid where all can see LTaylor character and her grown up son are the real villains.And what about this cop on rednecks payroll, how stupid that was. All in all good movie with some stupid things

It really wasn't all that bad. Or, at least not as offensively bad as some of the other Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. Still, it was all pretty dumb and disposable. Nothing much happened, and I didn't care for or understand the motivations of any of the characters. It was quite bloody at points, but often became grossness for grossness' sake. Overall, rather forgettable and a pretty pointless addition to the franchise.

37.2.

It's got some decent moments of creepy but overall trying to make the character seem sympathetic fails miserably. The transformation of the villain makes zero sense and while the gore is okay, plot-wise it doesn't offer you anything after they clear the mental institute.

A really bad reride with an old classic story.

Not any worse than the other Leatherface movies, a bit better.

This reminded me more of The Devil's Rejects than it did Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The gore is decent and the acting is serviceable but the film needed at least one likable character to make it work and I couldn't find one.

The most unique installment in a while, while "Leatherface" might not be the first origin story in the franchise, it does sustain the decades long mid-level mediocrity, which is an admirable feat for a horror franchise. It's also another notch on the belt for the horror franchise with the most erratic naming convention in history.

It's ok if you forget it's meant to be related to the texas chainsaw stuff.

It pretty doesn't add anything new, even placing itself as an origin story, but the French extremity duo brings some satisfying, straightforward gore -- and with no torture porn shit -- to the table and a cool millennial angst vibe to it -- even if the transition from troubled teen to brutal murderer feels totally disjointed. Also, nice to finally see a TCM movie exploring some asylum material and Sawyer weirdness with some talented star power -- Lil Taylor, of course.

How does he grow that much into what we see future films?

just when you feared that the prequel, sequel, reboot, rehash, whatever-wave was about to subside (yeah, riiiiight...), we get leatherfarce:origins. not that anyone's gonna notice. thankfully. i guess the plot was supposed to keep you on your toes about who jed is? whoever didn't get that from the very first moment, is probably the perfect target audience. you gotta hand it to the movie, how straight-faced it shits on anything, though. there's a certain charm to its ridiculous stupidity.

A well-driven hommage.

okay movie

Every time someone turns around in this movie, there's someone already behind them - sneaking up made easy thanks to the magic of editing. That's just an example of how dumb, derivative and ineffectual the script is. It's a mess, the worst TCM to date with the possible exception of "3D". As with other "prequels" (the Exorcist one comes to mind) I'm going to pretend I never watched this.

I thought this might be a comedy but it never got any funnier.