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Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2022

David Blue Garcia

Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Jacob Latimore, Moe Dunford ...

4.4

5,259

Horror Melody, her entrepreneur friends, and her sister Lila come to the small town of Harlow, Texas with hopes of renovating the area. Unfortunately, their arrival ends up reawakening the deadly Leatherface, who begins to slaughter the newcomers. Meanwhile, the sole survivor of Leatherface's killing spree in 1973, Sally Hardesty, remerges to take down the murderer.

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It would be generous to call the film a continuation of the 'Chainsaw' saga. It’s more like a blood-soaked but unscary footnote."
		William Bibbiani The Wrap	"To some, a film with undeveloped themes, thin characters, and superficial gore might seem like a bad thing. To connoisseurs of the slasher genre, it’s all part of a well-balanced breakfast."
		Matt Donato IGN	"'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' stinks like a basement full of corpses as Leatherface becomes just another hulking villain — not exactly the fresh start franchise diehards might have otherwise welcomed."
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] doesn’t exactly offer anything new (...) but gorehound fans who rejoice at watching people’s innards fall out of their bodies will find much to appreciate"
		A.A. Dowd AV Club	"It might be the furthest any filmmaker has strayed from what made the original so timelessly terrifying"
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"There’s little time for thinking, probably for the best, given the thinness of the material and some of the mistakes made within it, but first-time director David Blue Garcia finds ample time for suspense (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Valerie Complex Deadline	"The first entry on my worst of the year list (...) The actors try their best to navigate an unfortunate script, but nothing can save this Netflix movie from caving under the weight of its irrationality."
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"[A] poorly plotted, efficiently executed Netflix blood bath"
		Adam Graham Detroit News	"It achieves its goal. Director David Blue Garcia, working with [his team] (...) keeps things simple, pointed and roaring."
		Jude Dry IndieWire	"It delivers plenty of blood spattered, gut-spilling gore to satisfy genre lover’s bloodlust, even if we’ve pretty much seen everything a chainsaw can do by now."
		Keith Watson Slant	"A deeply miscalculated mix of incoherent social commentary and over-the-top gore (...) [The script] juggles more ideas than it cares to actually chew (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		Jeff Ewing Forbes	"It may be an engaging enough return to form for fans of the franchise, although it misses the charm that makes the original so memorable."
		Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"This is a movie that very much wants to call back to the original — and in doing so, it inadvertently reminds us of how much better the original was, and how bad this is"
		Ian Sandwell Digital Spy	"It's undeniably fun to see Leatherface unleashed again and in terms of being an effective and bloody horror ride, there's a lot to enjoy in 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' if you've got a strong enough stomach (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Sarah Yarkin and Elsie Fisher are terrific as the sisters, who are the closest thing to fully realized characters in the film. Everybody else is just dramatic chum (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Cass Clarke CBR	"[It] shreds through its promising premise with abandon, sacrificing the film's compelling leads for brutal and senseless gore."
		Gaius Bolling JoBlo	"The film lacks a certain mass appeal to attract casual moviegoers (...) That being said, director David Blue Garcia along with cinematographer Ricardo Diaz, create some solid tension and visuals that stick with you"
		Andrew Crump The Playlist	"[It] bumbles and bungles along the journey (...) But [it] couches menace in Burnham's hulking physique, holds back nothing in the bloodshed department, and ends on a beat so shocking that it makes [it] worth watching"
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"The lack of narrative depth would be fine if [it] was effective as a horror movie. It's not. The staging and execution of the violence is uninspired. No tension, no suspense, no characters to care about (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		Kira Comerford Ready Steady Cut	"All gore, nothing more, and that's okay (...) I was intrigued to see what would happen with this installment for better or worse. Dare I say curiosity didn't kill the cat here? (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Donald Clarke Irish Times	"Absolute bloody rubbish (...) There’s very little to be said for this squalid sequel to the 1974 original (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

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