Texas Chainsaw 3D: Critic Reviews

All the makers of "Texas Chainsaw 3D" cared about was getting your $16.

Try as [Luessenhop] might to honor the original -- flashbulb transitions, a skeevy (yet buff) hitchhiker, metal doors, and meat hooks -- there's little of its mounting dread.

"Texas Chainsaw 3D" sees itself as over-the-top and knowing, but what we ultimately get is simply eyes without a face.

A better-than-average horror-thriller that relies more on potent suspense than graphic savagery or stereoscopic tricks.

An effort is made to provide some character definition for Leatherface, which is probably a mistake. He's much scarier as a cipher.

Truth be told, the most frightening thing about the franchise at this point is that it just keeps on going.

In-your-face 3D and a half-hearted attempt at psychological complexity add little to this umpteenth Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.

The original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" leaves audiences feeling hollowed out, dispirited and dissolute. "Texas Chainsaw 3D" is simply a bummer for being a big nothing.

It deserves a modicum of credit for actually making you despise a chainsaw-wielding maniac less than a bunch of lowlife redneck scum.

Texas Chainsaw immediately establishes itself as a significant improvement over the various other entries in this enduring franchise...

The equivalent of filmic road kill ... An abridged version of the original, rendered in bad 3D, serves as a pre-credit set-up and makes us long for the real deal.

You may think that after six movies that there would be nothing left to say on the topic of Texas chainsaw massacres, and you would be right.

Director John Luessenhop delivers some jolts as well as much gruesomeness, but a bogus ending and the convoluted morality of a script that tries to transform the vengeful Leatherface into a sympathetic if psychotic antihero hamstrings his efforts.

( ... ) you might want to imagine I'm wielding a chainsaw that's making the noise rrrrrrrrrrrLLLLLLLLL! And that, as I write, I'm chopping up the three scriptwriters and three story writers on the grounds of over-manning (ditto, nine producers).

Leatherface is a loser.

There are some gory kills and some goofy fun as a huge chainsaw thrusts out of the screen in 3D, but this is a generic by the numbers slasher that squanders TCM's grimy history.

This new film survives on its formulaic horror mechanics and the powerful image of a chain saw wielded in 3-D.

Seeing a flick in January usually means lowering your expectations, but no moviegoer should have to endure this.

Leatherface is the smartest one in this picture: he's the only one with the good sense to cover up his face so no one will know he was involved in this putrid waste of time.

Includes some of the absolute worst 3-D effects that I can ever remember seeing.

When making a sequel to a beloved genre classic, it's generally unwise to include clips of the masterpiece you're attempting to live up to.

Texas Chainsaw 3D is the sort of movie that makes you wish they made kevler contact lenses.

"Texas Chainsaw 3D" is not a very original slasher film. It mostly serves fans of the horror genre with its stereotypical characters and gore.

math doesn't mean much in Texas Chainsaw, nor does logic, for that matter, or anything resembling originality or daring

An inane, insane horror movie but Alexandra Daddario makes it bearable.