LEATHERFACE

Leatherface Movie Review

This one tells the story of young Jedidiah Sawyer, the boy who would become the serial killer known as Leatherface. After being removed from his home, Jed is seen years later in a mental institution, where he escapes with a few others and finds himself on the run. This movie serves as a prequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series, and follows the story set up by the original film and Texas Chainsaw 3D more than it does the series of films that began with the 2003 remake. The film manages to deliver in the gore and bloodshed, and packs a surprise punch here and there.

He looks surprised

Where the movie fails is in creating a good, or even interesting, story of a young Leatherface. I said this about Rob Zombie’s Halloween prequel regarding Michael Myers, and it holds true here as well—WE DO NOT NEED TO KNOW WHY LEATHERFACE KILLS!! Every single movie that has had Leatherface as a character has established that he comes from a family of psychopaths—is that not enough?! Apparently not, because this movie wants us to buy that Leatherface was...wait for it...NORMAL, but was driven crazy by...well...everybody else. I don’t buy it, and you probably won’t either. Most of this movie feels way disconnected from the already loosely tied together TCM franchise, but that’s kind of a good thing—had they taken this script and thrown away any attempt to make it a Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, it would have actually been a decent horror film. As it is, Leatherface sits near the bottom of a franchise that hasn’t had any decent breath breathed into it in over a decade.

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 5

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