View Full Version : The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
dookylover
07-24-2003, 09:41 PM
I saw a sneak preview of the film last night in Ontario, CA. This film rocks. It does not matter if you've seen the other films. This one will have you jumpimg out of your seat and laughing your a$$ off. The film opens with a group of twenty-somethings rolling down the backwoods coming back from Mexico with a butt-load of Mary-Jane, WEED, Wacky ToBacky.....A girl is stumbling and bumbling down the road and they almost hit her. Of course this is the mid 70's so the pick the chick up and sh*t goes wrong fast. The chick is all weirded out and sh*t, she tells them they are all going to die. Then WATCH OUT. The B*tch pulls out a .38 pistol from in-between her bloody thighs and procedes to blow her brains out all over the van. The camera pans from inside to outside the van where you can see the sky through the whole in the chicks head. It is a awesome piece of camera work......I'll tell more later.
Brian
07-25-2003, 02:30 PM
Nice!
So how does it compare to the original film? I mean, they're messing with a true classic here.
dookylover
07-26-2003, 04:41 PM
Serious. This movie stands up on it's own two feet. They did not make the mistake of taking every element from the original. They have added more than enough. I only hope all the scenes make it. It gets gory a time or two.
bunnypooo
10-15-2003, 11:19 PM
i am! i am so excited! when i was little texas chainsaw masacre and children of the corn were like the only two movies that scared me and tcm has always been one of my very faves, so im so curious to see what they do with it!
Brian
10-16-2003, 12:05 AM
Saw it yesterday. Some GREAT horror in this film...yet, still a little "new horror" for me...kinda like nu-metal. :twisted:
ClarkParker
10-16-2003, 03:55 AM
Saw it yesterday. Some GREAT horror in this film...yet, still a little "new horror" for me...kinda like nu-metal. :twisted:
HAHA. That was funny.
Hulkster
10-16-2003, 02:58 PM
i really want to see it this weekend.
bunnypooo
10-16-2003, 11:37 PM
yet, still a little "new horror" for me...kinda like nu-metal. :twisted:
i know exactly what you mean. the classics like texas chainsaw masacre, halloween, night of the living dead, etc etc are FAR scarier than todays horror movies.
Snatchtastic
10-17-2003, 11:53 AM
OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!
It's right around Halloween time and I put up 3 posters in my living room, My Nightmare on Elm street poster, the Freddy vs Jason poster and my Texas Chainsaw poster.
I can't wait to see this show. There was nothing scarrier to me than in the original when the two kids find the house and walk inside only to hear the pig squeeling in the background. And Leatherface bounding from out the door slamming the mallet in the guys head.
Hulkster
10-17-2003, 12:12 PM
I'm going to see this tonight. i hope its good.
Brian
10-17-2003, 02:34 PM
Post what you think after you've seen the flick!
Anonymous
10-18-2003, 05:43 PM
:D the best scry movie ever..makes u screaM!!!!....go see it if u havent already!
Anonymous
10-19-2003, 12:20 AM
I just saw this movie, Go watch it, it rock!!!
This is what a horror movie should be...I love the way that they made the character nice and you grow to somehow care for them but when they are being slaughter by Leatherface you just want to help them, but at the same time watches on as they try to fight for their own surival...
I thought their was a bit of a traggic love story mix in here alittle...Depends if you notice or not...Otherwise at times you actually felt felt like your about to cry for the characters and what happends to them, but the fun part is that your about to cry because of the scare factor of it also...
Go see it, This is by far the scarriest movie this year...Seriously, this year has been a pretty good year, but out of all the 2003 horror movie, this one tops it all with character development and plot twisting...
bunnypooo
10-20-2003, 12:34 AM
ok, so i saw it last night!
i liked it. i wont say i looooved it, but i liked it. i actually really liked jessica biel in it. i thought she did a really good job acting terrified without going over the top. i liked how she balanced being freaking scared shitless with trying to keep some wits about her to survive. i actually disliked their little blair witch rip off scene. another huge bummer was the absence of my fave scene from the orig.....the dinner table scene! overall i would say as it stands alone as a "new horror" film, i liked it quite a bit, but compared to the orig, its just not as good.
Anonymous
10-22-2003, 08:05 PM
Ok, call me clueless, but was all that shit at the beginning and end just BS? Just trick value to add to the spook level at the end?
I have not seen the original, which I now want to see, so I'm coming from a "didn't know what to expect"-ish area. I think the fact that this documentary crime scene stuff ended like it did disturbs me more than most the movie itself. I won't give anything away for those who haven't seen it yet. I guess I was just drawn in by the documentary stuff, but I went trying to find information on the investigation and so far have found none.
I really loved the movie though, R. Lee Ermey is a great creepy sheriff too by the way.
Laters
Brian
10-23-2003, 03:54 AM
yeah...the beginning stuff is all BS. I mean, they take elements from the 'real' story and the original film, but if you're looking for truth look into the life and time of serial kill ED GEIN, who inspired both the original and the remake. Honestly, if I remeber my research, the only element of truth to any of the 'massacre' stories is that the kill wore masks of dead flesh.
Check out the disc:
http://www.lightsoutentertainment.com/dvd/dvd.php?2212
Anonymous
10-23-2003, 08:03 PM
Thanks for info man!
:)
Brian
10-24-2003, 01:51 PM
No Problem! :twisted:
bunnypooo
10-25-2003, 12:23 AM
yeah...the beginning stuff is all BS. I mean, they take elements from the 'real' story and the original film, but if you're looking for truth look into the life and time of serial kill ED GEIN, who inspired both the original and the remake. Honestly, if I remeber my research, the only element of truth to any of the 'massacre' stories is that the kill wore masks of dead flesh.
that and the whole "house of horrors" aspect. ed gein had all kinds of stuff in his house that was made of human bones and stuff. and had dead bodies haning in his house and stuff like that.
Snatchtastic
10-28-2003, 10:38 AM
Original to Remake. **********MY POST CONTAINS SPOILERS***********
As I watch the first twenty minutes of this film I ask myself why there are re-makes. Is it to add visual effects and new cinematography? Maybe product placement shot for a younger generation? Or perhaps filling in the gaps of the film that leave it making more sence to a crowd who wants clossure to thier film.
And then POW the bitch in the backseat blows her fucking brains out. I then realized I was watching a movie and should pay attention.
So I was entertained with this movie, it seemed to be more CHASE oriented with more of LEATHERFACE and all his menacing glory. Loved all of the shocking scenes of just hearing a chainsaw rev up. And I thoroughly enjoyed the Blair Witch style ending with film footage that was found at the house. That gave it all the more feel that this was REAL.
But still the greatest dissapointment happened about halfway through the film when LEATHERFACE takes off his mask to reveal his alligator charred face? WTF????
And not only that but the family describes that he was made fun of as a child for his skin disease which gives him the excuse for revenge as a source for all the senceless violence. I was about to walk out then and thier but I paid 8 bucks for the show and might as well have sat for the ending.
So all in all I give this movie a 50/50 rating, I loved it and I hated it.
Sarah H
10-28-2003, 05:56 PM
I was supposed to see this movie last Sunday, but the fires here in S.D changed my plans. My friend saw it, and didn't like it. She thought the girls were dressed too slutty.
Does anyone watch Autopsy on HBO?
bunnypooo
10-28-2003, 11:26 PM
i LOVE autopsy!!!! i wish it was like a weekly show. ive seen them all numerous times.
Sarah H
10-29-2003, 02:12 AM
DId you watch the one about the guy from Canada and his wife, where he raped and killed 12 girls and raped his wife's little sister? Eww..or the one about the necrophyliac? (however that's spelt)
ClarkParker
10-29-2003, 02:14 AM
necrophiliac
Sarah H
10-29-2003, 02:16 AM
Thanks, I had no idea how to spell it.
ClarkParker
10-29-2003, 02:17 AM
That's what I'm here for.
Sarah H
10-29-2003, 02:24 AM
Well, I made reference to not knowing how to spell it just for you. But did you ever hear about that guy who raped those girls? The case is pretty crazy, his wife was an accompliss or accessory, she even performed oral sex on her sister for him. It was such a fucked up case. Plus, the wife who should be permanently behind bars is going to be released from prison in 2-3 years because she got a lighter sentence because she confessed.
ClarkParker
10-29-2003, 02:25 AM
accomplice. :wink:
Sarah H
10-29-2003, 02:27 AM
Yeah, I practically left that word out because I couldn't spell it. I kept thinking it doesn't look right, but theni said fuck it, he knows what I mean.
ClarkParker
10-29-2003, 02:28 AM
haha...I'd better stop though, or I'm going to end up correcting someone, and end up spelling it wrong myself. Then I'd really look like an ass.
Sarah H
10-29-2003, 02:34 AM
:lol: Well, I always considered myself an okay spelleruntil you popped in the picture.
Ok, this is a random story, but I feel like telling it. My friend was IMing her middle school basketball coach and she was asking her coach if her husband and her had bonded lately. Unfortunately, my friend made a typo and said have you boned lately. It was hilarious. :lol: It makes me giggle just thinking about it.
ClarkParker
10-29-2003, 02:40 AM
that made me laugh.
Sarah H
10-29-2003, 02:42 AM
Yeah! Seriously, it was so funny. I can still remember her face looking at the screen and making an oops face. What's bad is that I saw the typo and thought my friend was just incredibly bold with her coach.
scorsese_fan
10-29-2003, 07:44 AM
I don't think I'll ever go see this one in theaters. The original is the Citizen Kane of horror films, and I have no interest in a film that is a shamless exploitation of the original's success. Plus, it sounds like anyone with a head on their shoulders hates this film. I'm still going to rent it and give it a fair shake when it's released on DVD, though.
ClarkParker
10-29-2003, 12:10 PM
I don't think I'll ever go see this one in theaters. The original is the Citizen Kane of horror films, and I have no interest in a film that is a shamless exploitation of the original's success. Plus, it sounds like anyone with a head on their shoulders hates this film. I'm still going to rent it and give it a fair shake when it's released on DVD, though.
Me too.
Sarah H
10-29-2003, 01:41 PM
My friend is coming down from LA this weekend for Halloween, and we're going to have a movie fest and rent the original. I haven't seen either version yet. She saw the remake and hated it.
This movie is shameful. It is so disrespectful to the original it saddens me. The original was grimy, a documentary-like feel. You were taken on this horrific hell-ride, thinking the whole time "What the hell are they going to do to her?"
One of the things that I found most appealing about the original is that the kids weren't complete victims, in that they went to the killer, not vice-versa. I mean, you watch Halloween or any other slasher, and its teenagers at home or in a cabin being terrorized by a monster. What Texas Chainsaw did was allow for the teenagers to stumble across a man nobody would have expected. They entered his house. They snooped around. They opened the door to the bloodshed that followed.
Fast forward to this new joke of a film. It sickens me how the whole town is designed to trap visitors. Its this huge elaborate plan to get any passer-bys to have a run-in with leatherface. And whats even more ridiculous is how unrealistic the victims behave. For example, look at the scene where Biel's friend just had his leg cut off in front of her, and she scrambles back to the van, only to be encountered by Full Metal Jackass police officer. Not for one second would any rational human find themself laying on the ground in fear of being arrested on pot charges when they know a killer is on the loose. And then actually go inside the van and recreate the earlier suicide with the officer. Its all their to scare the viewer. Reality is discarded so you the viewer can be startled by the next <HAND ON THE SHOULDER FOLLOWED BY PIERCING MUSIC> gag.
It also bugs me how the most disturbing scene in the original was totally neglected for another typical chase scene. In the original there is a scene in which the female lead is captured by the family and you realize just how sick and twisted and inhuman(e) they really are. We realize that the old man in the attic is alive and is hungry. We tremble and shield our eyes in anticipation as to what the hell they are going to do to her. We share the leads exhaustion. The psychological damage here is scarier than any chase scene. But this new installment doesn't believe that. It has a hankerin' for just a couple more scenes in which Leatherface chases Biel and she hides in another closed arena instead of getting the hell out of dodge.
I could go on. I could describe how the original's theory of appearing gruesome through implication is much more effective than all-and-out gore, another idea disregarded. I could describe how the family is now supporting cast for the not-so-mysterious freak with a chainsaw. And I could describe how the family's relationship is not explained here, but only known through the superior original. But instead, I will just strongly urge you to not support this insult of a film.
ClarkParker
11-06-2003, 04:30 AM
Red, you pretty much confirmed what I was already expecting. I'm not even going to bother with this one.
Sarah H
11-07-2003, 02:54 PM
OK, I saw TCM yesterday, and it was the scariest fucking movie. I must have scream about 5 times. It's a good movie. Also, I got to see a very moving and exciting trailer for LOTR3.
Does a movie that startles you with cheap tricks deserve to be labeled "scary"?
Sarah H
11-08-2003, 12:43 AM
You have a point, but I still think the movie was really scary. Yeah, TCM was jump out at you scary..but for startling scenes, the movie had the scariest. Leatherface definitely startled me more than the Screamer.
Anonymous
02-25-2004, 10:36 AM
:D Hey you guys....I've been getting alot of emails in my inbox @ babygurl4um7thheaven@yahoo.com asking-what's the REAL story behind all of this Texas Chainsaw Massacre stuff? I've been to every fourm that I could possibly search and told them. So now I'm going to tell you! This info is based on the sightings of the actual survivor, BJ Ketes (Billie Jean-NOT a guy :wink: ) In a newspaper article that police and investagators wrote about her-this is the EXACT rticle from the TX Westfront:
Texas Westfront
August 25, 1973
As a result of the accountless tragety, 33 bodies were found nearly a week ago in Travis County, Texas/Luller. Police and Investagators have not yet found a subjected suspect but only know that their killer BRANDISHED A CHAINSAW, whom he torchered, and made leather masks from the flesh of his victums. Only one known survivor of this tragety is BJ Alexandea Ketes, who refuses to talk to anyone about this account.
This is only part of what was in the actual newspaper article, but amazingly one of the victums names was actually Morgan Davis. Another known survivor was his brother-whom they hadn't been able to identify for several years-Stewert Davis. I DO NOT know the names of the other 2 victums-nor do I know the rest of the 30 sum people they found butchered up in the so called fernis room. If you have any questions you can contact me at jessicabiel@newlinecinemas.com or at my Yahoo! screen name @ babygurl4um7thheaven@yahoo.com. PLEASE DO NOT FILL MY INBOX UP WITH STUFF THAT IS USELESS TO ASK....I CAN NOT ANSWER EVERYONES EMAILS BUT I WILL TRY!!!! :D [/quote]
I don't know who told you all of that but they are wrong, and any newpaper articles are fake. The real story behind it features nothing like a powertool, or human skin masks. The film was inspired by the events of serial killer Ed Gein, who canibalized his vioctims, used their skin for lamps, bones for pots ect... He never brandished a chainsaw, and the films are defenitely not Based on True Stories, merely influenced by the same murders that influenced both Psycho and Silence Of The Lambs.
Anonymous
04-05-2004, 07:01 PM
I'm from Australia and just watched the original last night after watching the remake the night before... the original sucks and didn't even scare me. if anything it made me laugh at how lame it was. The remake on the otherhand scared the crap outta me! This is better than the original and is so different than the original that i can safely say that opening scene where the girl blows a hole in her head set me up for one very scary movie. i'd give the remake 4 out of 5.
Brian
04-05-2004, 10:27 PM
I don't think you realize that the original came out in 1974, and no other film up to that point had ever shown a guy getting slammed in the back of the skull with a sledgehammer, let alone girls being left to die hanging on meat hooks.
ClarkParker
04-06-2004, 04:22 PM
I don't think you realize that the original came out in 1974, and no other film up to that point had ever shown a guy getting slammed in the back of the skull with a sledgehammer, let alone girls being left to die hanging on meat hooks.
True, but that doesn't make it good. Not saying the original TCM was bad, but Friday the Thirteenth, one of the "grandfathers of the slasher genre" sucked big time, and it's considered by horror geeks to be a classic.
Serendipity_believer
05-22-2004, 10:17 AM
:oops: Actually first of all i wanna thank for ur effort in briniging up such interesting topic , that i guess it;s a real tragedy . There's a question i wanna ask u about i don''t know if it may sound stupid and useless or not , it's regarding the killer did they identify him or knew who he is ? or what was his motive in makeing such a massacre? And is he the Leather Face guy like in the movie? and killed his victims wtih a chainsaw :saber: ? I think these questions just crossed my mind when i read ur post .
Anway hope this is not a useless question and u'll reply me ,
Thanx :cheers:
:deadtired: hehehe...I already know it the movie was lucely based on the real thing
the guy never had a mask but he did murder them I also heard he mite have used a chainsaw but that was'nt confirmed. of corse I have know idea where I got this info but it's real I supose.
ClarkParker
06-05-2004, 12:36 AM
^ lost his spellcheck. :roll:
Snatchtastic
06-05-2004, 09:14 AM
I have know idea where I got this info but it's real I supose.
This was my favorite part.
Striel
06-10-2004, 07:58 PM
http://www.theangrytruth.com/postview_1045.asp
Read that.
I read the whole thing I like that....hmmm