I feel like not enough people talk about the disrespect of letting the final girl character of the original movie die on a literal pile of garbage lmaooo
She shouldn't have been in the movie and the actress chosen to play Sally didn't fit. So yes Imposter Sally may die in a literal pile of garbage. It's almost poetic really
If they were going for an influencer angle, they could’ve gone for true crime content creators coming to Texas to cover the murders from the place it happened and then get terrorized by Bubba and a group of scary people who are way too into the history of the murders.
Your comment inspired me, what if it’s that these influencer types come to the town in search of bubba, w a woke internet mob mentality because they found out about the history after it went viral or something, commentary on how like true crime has gotten so big that anyone and everyone thinks they’re a detective/cop, so instead of caring about the people of the town or the actual murders they want the fame of being internet vigilantes. They take it upon themselves to enact “justice”and capture torture and abuse bubba and his caretaker. We then get to justifiably enjoy when he breaks loose and gos on a murdering spree cuz of them. He’s actually the age he’s supposed to be and we witness his struggle in his own fight to survive. We get the tables turned on us, who’s actually the villain here type of story.
I even had a scarier dream of a story that can turn into a chainsaw film and would be more realistic. A father and his two teenage kids (girl(15) and boy(17)) go out to "hunt" for rabbits out in a deserted house and area, one they went to when they were kids. It was a gloomy day and they walk around all the rubbish and explore the place, while the dad stays in the van, crying and looking at pictures not shown on screen. He is full of hatred and misery. The kids return, one of them with an injury to his foot but doesn't tell his father or sister. As they drive away, the van "breaks down" and the dad can't figure out what's wrong. They walk back to the place where the dad now says an old man lives there, even though he mentioned earlier that the old man passed away. Finally while inside the dusty and somber looking house, the teenage guy with the injured foot gets frustrated and starts to break downs due to the pain. The father and daughter take a look and see that it's getting infected. The teenage guy wails that he wants the pain to go away NOW! Suddenly, out of the dark shadows next to the chimney, a dark large figure emerges, a figure that appears to be there, yet not. A figure almost demonic. The three stare at the looming figure, and the dad with tears on his eyes and a scowl tells the boy "he can take it away", pointing at the figure who now appears to have a chainsaw. At that, a loud demonic cackle is let out by the figure and the sound of a chainsaw can be heard wanting to start as the figure proceeds towards the boy. The girl lets out a scream as she tries to help her brother up but he falls down and the father pulls her away as they run out the door. The boy stares up at the figure with tears staining his face and terror in his eyes, asking him "what'd I ever do to you?". At that the figure brings down his chainsaw and slices the boys foot from the ankle as he slightly glides away. A wail of pain can be heard from the inside of the home, outside where it's now dark, the father and his daughter run away, with the father now acting more oddly than ever! And that's the end of my dream but I bet it would make an even better movie than this "film".
It's ironic that that moment made me think the writers are a bunch of out of touch boomers. Influencers are annoying but come on. Imagining thinking that badly about gen z when actual bad people exist in the world.
@@mikeysbusy that might be the case if it was confined to this one film. But it’s one of many instances where millennials/gen z in movies/tv are depicted as social media obsessed imbeciles.
I don't watch a lot of slashers, but something that bothered me a lot was the inconsistency in reaction to injuries. Like some characters go down fast but the important characters have like 1000000 HP
I saw a movie where a girl died from probably getting stabbed in the foot the screen cut to black and in the end it revealed that everyone survived but that was just way too much of a stretch to think that someone could die from that
Honestly it's so crazy how killers are capable of killing men (in general so many people) in 2 seconds but some cute woman lead goes through Armageddon and a broken ankle and suddenly the she's giving them trouble. For whatever reason the teleportation they have has cooldown and they edge walk instead of walking at a pace that would outspeed a woman with a shattered ankle after she fell down stairs and got thrown into walls.
With “regular” stabbings i can give some benefit of the doubt because it actually takes longer than people might expect to bleed out AS LONG AS a major blood vessel or organ isn’t hit, especially with a sharp weapon that makes clean cuts. But a chainsaw?! Come the fuck on
If they wanted me to believe Sally would be working with meat at a slaughterhouse I'm gonna need a whole damn movie on that backstory took her from movie one to there, and even then it would be a very hard sell.
yup, c'mon, after all that she went through the only possible scenario for her future would be having her mental health ruined forever. If you think about it though, most of slashers are supposed to be silly xd
Well it's a good thing they weren't trying to sell it considering she was cleaning out a pig on her own farm not the slaughterhouse. Sally became a Texas Ranger. Sally's grandfather also used to be a cattle rancher. Living in Texas and being a farm girl, it wouldn't surprise me she knows how to clean out an animal.
@@shadowman_nine i havent watched the original movie in a very long time so maybe i'm wrong but i thought that she was living in a city for majority of her life since she and her family moved there when she was little 😅 Pls correct me in case 😅
I feel like the Sally thing could work if they like, leaned more into her having been super fucked up from the trauma? Like if their point was that being the final girl trauma had caused her to get an obsession with meat or violence or something, her psyche was completely broken bc of everything and instead of having an aversion to it she became obsessed w it. then her using the girls as bait could show just how much it fucked her up, bc she doesn't even care about their lives anymore since her only focus would be violent revenge? they couldve shown her hearing Ruth's radio call and that would be what prompted her to find them. i think that could've been fun but instead her character just seems extremely weird and off-brand
Something that irks me about Sally supposedly hunting Bubbha for fifty years is that she doesn’t think to look IN THE TOWN NEAR THE MURDERHOUSE! All 50 years of searching and not once did she think “Let’s check the town that’s near the house. Considering it’s the only town for miles and miles. He may be hiding out there.”
I really hate bubba's character in this. I really don't think that bubba actually liked killing in the original but was doing it because it made his family happy. You can see the toxic relationship dynamics in the family in the first TCM. They abuse him, they call him names, he's afraid of his family and they it it that way because Bubba is fucking HUGE and they don't want him to get violent with them. I really feel like Bubba is a sweet neurodivergent kid who grew up surrounded by evil and didn't know he could be nice or gentle. He only got positive reinforcement for killing people. With the masks, I also always got the vibe that they were a way for him to hide from his family. To literally put on a brave face around them so he could deal with the abuse and brutality he faced. There's that scene in the second one where he puts a face on the girl he's trying to save from his family, I always read that as him trying to hide her in the only way he knew how. Idk, bubba is truly one of my favorite horror characters he's stuck with me for so long because he's also a victim of the family. The original made a character that killed nearly every character and I still feel sorry for him.
I love this so much, he's way more than just a spiteful, brutal killing machine, like yes he was the face (faces?) of the horror but his family seemed to be the ones influencing it. Comments like this and videos like this are so good at explaining the depth of Leatherface and why this movie is garbage and nothing short of a cash grab, point blank.
I love this about Bubba. He's as scared of the protagonists as they are of him. You can really feel this in the original movie when he runs around the house closing all the curtains in a panic. He's absolutely terrified.
People don’t realize that his character is way more than just the chainsaw. During the dinner scene in the original he is very sweet and gentle while looking after grandpa. And I always felt like him wearing the face with makeup was partially because he was trying to fill the traditional domestic caregiver roll due to the lack of living female relatives. Of all the popular slasher villains he is by far the most sympathetic and the best in terms of in depth characterization.
Yes!!!! I love this so much!!! This is so how I feel and he is my favourite for those reasons. He is a case study in nature vs. nurture and how easily that can ruin someone! I loves him.
This makes me actually glad that jason is stuck in a rights war. That's why there hasnt been any new friday the 13th films is because theres like 3? Different companies fighting for the rights to the franchise. I'm fine with no more jason movies. I'm fine with no more Michael movies. They should've left bubba alone too. Make! New! Killers!!! Our old slashers have had their runs! Make fucking new ones!
Honestly!! As a huge horror fan I am far more likely to go see a movie with a promising new killer than a studio beating a dead horse for a quick buck.
@@ashbubbax there are so many more interesting concepts that can be made! The dead by daylight games have so many good original killers! Not to mention the ideas that exist on the internet (I will say though most internet horrors turned blockbuster films are... bad *cough cough slenderman cough cough*)
And if you're NOT going to make new killers, make the killers in the new stories be inspired by the older killers....it doesn't have to LITERALLY be Leatherface, or Jason or Michael. It would be so much more interesting to see a new killer who has soaked in those storylines. (And NOT in a dumb way like an ilegitimate kid or some horseshit, on the off chance that Big Hollywood is reading this and just had the worst lightbulb moment ever.) But TBH, let's just let all of these old storylines lay fallow for 20 years. We'd all benefit from that, but especially the characters.
That’s the best option, but if they absolutely for some godsforsaken reason have to redo old slasher movies just do a complete reboot. Stop with these sequels that ignore past movies and end up screwing up characters from past movies, just start anew. And most importantly STOP TRYING TO MAKE THEM “MODERN”. Cause half the time when y’all do that you end up letting it show that you have a lot of contempt for murdering people/society/youth/etc. or you end up revealing some of your bigotry in the process. Also stop throwing out random words/phrases/things that are new trends on social media especially when you don’t understand the context. Like why did they have the whole “You try anything and we’ll cancel you” shot on the bus.
Here is my post credit scene. Leather Face goes back to the old house. He walks into the house and is met by Bubba and is killed. Turns out he was an orphan who was obsessed with the original killings and became a copy cat killer.
I busted out laughing when you said he wore the mask with makeup cause he wants to look pretty. I’m just imagining bubba every morning going like “hmm I’m feeling the fenty face today with falsies”
I told my husband at the end of the movie “it’s like they couldn’t decide if they wanted it to be a legit good horror movie, or a B horror movie” because I love both but the kills were too unrealistic and awful to be taken seriously but the acting and plot weren’t that of a B movie so I’m not sure what they were trying to accomplish.
I tend to not watch most movies, but what I do enjoy is watching people with some passion review it…. That and drag queens. I watched the Trixie and Katya like to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre first :)
I'm sick of having final girls train or come back for revenge. It's so obvious men are writing a story arc when I just want these women to be able to get as far away from their trauma as possible, that's my post trauma fantasy.
it being written by men has nothing to do with it. when a guy comes back for revenge its cool. but when a girl does it in a film its men forcing shit on women. why cant it just be a badass revenge story?(that was if they handled sally's return better that is and if this was a good movie lol) everyone has had trauma and everyone handles it differently men and women alike. but that doesnt mean a women wouldnt want to face her trauma upfront. just like a man has the right to distance themselves from it and heal a different way. why must be dictate how stories go because we dont understand that people handle things differently? fuck sakes. EDIT: excuse the spellings errors 😂😂
I think it works for a movie like Scream where it keeps following Sydney (i like how they handled it in Scream 5 especially) and it was novel in Halloween cause they fully explored the impact it would have on a family. But here, it just happens. No good reason, just so it can happen.
It doesn’t matter who it’s written by tf. If it’s executed well like Halloween 2018 then that’s good, if it’s executed badly like in this movie then it’s bad that’s all. It doesn’t matter who wrote it. This goes for both male, female, etc leads returning. I think majority of people would want to actually get away from their trauma but the big difference is this is a movie so they don’t think like the average person.
First, I appreciate that you don’t hate on the people who enjoyed the movie and aren’t trying to change their minds. Second, I think you’re right and they absolutely tried to do make Leather face just like Michael Myers, even going as far as attempting to have Sally going full Laurie Strode. But the problem is that Michael Myers was described as being a a child with the strength of a man and the mind of an animal. Leather face is a massive man, with the strength to match, however he has the mind of a child which makes him relatively easy to control. Also it just seems like the modern slasher film doesn’t seem to write characters that are likable. I could be wrong.
i know right! i love the og film. i remember watching it for the first time and absolutely in love with leatherface. his mannerisms was child like and i find it soooo cute. this leatherface doesnt not giving 😔
Well Leatherface would probably not have that mentality of I need to reproduce I need to have a family but let's say he does I honestly really think he wouldn't care
@@Kryptic_sx Ew dude, not literally. He would be brining people into an adoptive family. I'm thinking it would be an interesting twist if he either had the whole town converted into eating "meat", or he took these gentrifiers and turned them to it. He becomes a literal influencer, or cult leader.
@@natanaga9892 I've had a concept in my mind similar to that, 3 church goers in a small Texas town are sent menacing threats in the form of "signs". When they don't take it seriously they come face to face with a force of evil. I also want this film to be totally weird, even campy, with one of them being secretly gay. More of a "whodunnit" kind of film. Just simple and unnerving with a strange twist at the end where Leatherface is just revealed to be an internet account in the dark web or something like that lol! Also no massacre, with just 2-3 deaths total and a lot of screaming, tada! Cult of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
It was so tropey, so predictable, so disappointing. They didn't do any of the original characters justice and the new characters were so one note. Sigh. It came off like a boomer writing what they thought gen z would say in a given situation. There were a couple of good laughs. The ending of Mel's head getting cut off was fun. They had so much source material to work with and could have done a lot better. It seemed like they hadn't even seen the original movie
A boomer writing what they thought the youths would say is what I thought as well just based on the trailer. Specifically the “try anything and your cancelled bro” line, God that was a hacky line. People in the comments were praising that line though like it was hilarious. So I guess the audience is out there for hack writing. Anyway I’ll never watch this movie
@@baptizednblood6813 Or...bots but who knows. I'm not surprised by comment farms anymore but yeah that line was awful and I don't know if that was done as a 'commentary' or the writers hoping we'd be happy that guy got attacked for saying that. It just didn't work.
I really hate using 'boomer' too much but...yeah. Yeah, it really, REALLY was. I guess the thing that works from the original is that it came off being made from someone who was living directly in the middle of the counter culture movement as it was happen vs a Hollywood excet who feels like they're in such a secluded place that he doesn't get any of the locations they movie is set in. It worked in the original but something about how they depicted so many things in this rubbed me the wrong way.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid yeah boomer is kinda over used but the shoe fits in this case lol. On the scardey cats channel he said this movie is very conservative and I also saw a comment of someone saying they loved the part where leather face killed all the “wokes” on the bus. So I think their target audience was people who hate “wokes” and “cancel culture” they weren’t even trying to capture any of the elements of the first movie
God I love horror movies. I’m so glad “he doesn’t even consume flesh in this movie! There is NO cannabalism!” Can just be a perfectly normal and valid complaint about. A movie
I LOVE SALLY!!!!! She’s one of my fave horror final girls so I’m really disappointed. I think they just wanted to do what the new Halloween films did with Laurie and it was just really disappointed. Also I think the original film was a commentary on the meat industry anyways so the fact that she’s just like cool with blood and stuff like makes no sense
Theres like, a lot of people out there who became vegetarian simply bc they see how animals are butchered. The idea that u could see ur friends and family treated like this and go on to become a butcher really only implies theres something majorly wrong with you. Like. If she was shown reluctantly eating meat after all these years i could see that, shes overcoming herself n stuff, but this was ridiculous.
Yup. Also wasn't she kinda squeamish over hearing about the butchering and skinning of animals too? And wasn't it kinda implied that she and her friends were fed human meat? Yeah, totally would become a butcher if that was me...
I still don't understand how this is a sequel when it looks like "Texas Chainsaw's Days of Future Past." 50 years have passed but Leatherface looks the same age, nor was he already wearing a face at the beginning. Not the right movie to blend school shootings and social media. The mask in this looks like the scarecrow in Scary Stories. (great thumbnail!)
That's my biggest problem. In the original Leatherface was probably pushing 30, which would mean he's pushing 80 in this movie. And yet he's able to hike all the way back to town, butcher everybody, literally lift Sally up into the air, all without breaking a sweat.
@@DTHains Yep. I thought, "who are you trying to convince? Someone who's never seen the original or are we supposed to believe he's suddenly immortal?" Although a chainsaw apparently makes him invincible.
I don't know how that isn't the first criticism out of anybody's mouth! Of all the inconsistencies in this, that one is so glaring that I can't even laugh at it. It's just so lazy and incompetent.
I remember when I was a kid and for the LONGEST time how Gunnar was in the top... 5 I'd say of Icelanders that had "made it" in Hollywood and there was such a collective pride around him, which thinking about it now and that he was playing a merciless-killer-cannibal makes me laugh. None the less he did good and brought so much to Leatherface that obviously hasn't translated beyond him.
"Orphan Woman" is Alice Krige and if I were her, I'd have my credit removed from the IMDB page for this mess, too. She's an awesome actress and deserved better.
This movie is up there with the NOES remake for me in terms of "movies where I would fist fight everyone involved in making it". The NERVE of them framing it as a direct sequel! It's insulting! Also if it's the same leatherface he's like, fucking 70 years old MINIMUM - old ass Michael Myers kinda works, this doesn't. The gentrification thing almost works with the message of the original (commerce moving out of small towns and leaving people in poverty & people having to do monstrous things to survive) but it's done fucking terribly. It gets Bubba so wrong, in the original he's helping his family survive & killing trespassers in his own home. In this one he's...mad that a random elderly woman who was maybe looking after him died (& it's not his mother, I refuse to accept that, it's canon to the original that Drayton raised all his brothers & they lived with their grandparents. In TCM3 a woman lives with them who they call "mama" but that movie also introduces new brothers so it's not super canon to the original either) while being evicted - so he kills a shedload of completely unrelated innocent people. The reason Bubba killed in the original was to feed the family - AND THEY JUST LEAVE ANY MENTION OF CANNIBALISM OUT OF THIS!? AND the mask looks like shit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree with soooo much of this!!! They never should've tried tying it into the franchise. It should've been it's own movie. And leatherface vs cult, (chefs kiss) brilliant idea! That would've been great! Also, texas chainsaw massacre is not a slasher movie. It's a cannibal/psycho family movie. Like hills have eyes or house of 1000 corpses. I thought everything was implied pretty well during the "eviction" scene with the mom. There is NO WAY that is suppose to be Bubba. He looks younger than Sally. He should be long dead at this point. As far as him with the dress and makeup, that at least ties into where they got inspiration for this franchise I'm the first place.(ed gein) Katherine on the bus was definitely stupid. She helped nobody. And that wasn't sludge. That had to be shit from that pipe. Lol I never even saw where Lila got that little chainsaw from. I was like, "where the fuck did that come from?!?". Overall I agree. This shouldn't have tied into the series. Also, they already did this movie. It was texas chainsaw 3d. That was a direct sequel to the original and it tied in a LOT better than this. This just looked like someone watched the new halloween amd said, "why don't we do that with leatherface too?".
This was more a comedy than horror or slasher flick. I laughed so hard at the ending death. Also...who's the maker of that chainsaw. To start after 50 years and still work once it was shot by a shotgun. Impressive.
I started laughing so hard when I realized none of the events in the film would have happened if it wasn't for them getting offended over a confederate flag in a deep south hick town. What were they expecting? San Francisco?
I just want to know what went down in the writing room where they all conclusively decided that the catalyst of the plot should be a raggedy confederate flag.
@Anna Bev Keep in mind that the production of the film was a mess. With how it handles social commentary, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a last-minute solution.
Damn you're right. They tried to remove the Confederate flag and they all got massacred for it. Writers must be into that heritage not hate crap 😆 or it was a shit-show production as you said. A mess either way.
@Colten Gray Here's the thing: the Confederacy and any attempts to make it look good are trash. That said... they wanted to gentrify this town in Texas just because, right? And these investors are smart, right? You can leave the flag and twist its presence into your pitch. "This flag represents a broken, sordid past and the worst part of our country. We want to change this and the future of this town into a safe, inclusive one. Start anew." Boom. And you can find another way to get Leatherface involved in the storyline. But this approach? Not to mention that the film was shot in Bulgaria so now I'm thinking whether the Confederacy made it there 💀.
I always thought the OG Leatherface was so interesting because he felt more like a victim of circumstances. Yes, he killed and ate people, but for the most part he just didn’t want to get yelled at by his family. Everything he did was because he was forced to by his psycho relatives. That’s why I didn’t like this movie all that much either. He just feels like a copy paste of every silent slasher villain with no personality of his own and no consideration as to what made him unique.
Honestly why would you put the car into auto pilot? After going through everything they did in that town I would've manifested rocket boosters out of nowhere to get away faster, not STROLL OUT AT A SNAILS PACE!
Lol characters not acting believably after this sort of ordeal is a pet peeve of mine. I agree, jet out of there, drive to a major city and keep watching their back in paranoia, not laugh and relax and grabass.
I was actually surprised how much I enjoyed it, not because it was scary at all, but because it was so FUNNY lmao. When he threw that hammer and she flew down the stairs glhkrkh
2:26 YES - part of the horror of Leatherface (and the family) is that they are, in fact, humans who are capable of such heinous acts. Michael Myers being basically immortal is part of that universe, it doesn't work in any other horror setting (at least not as well as it does for Halloween) and taking him away from the family really doesn't make sense, Bubba is Leatherface because of the family.
Here's how I would write the Sally part: After the events of the first film, Sally goes to a mental hospital When Sally hears about Leatherface going on a killing spree again over a radio in the asylum, she decides to escape, steal a gun and a cowboy hat, and enter Harlow, all the while she is batshit insane Basically a reverse Halloween kind of
OMFG THANK YOU! All of it. just terrible. So Sally has been living for this vengeance moment for 50 years... a short drive from the extra-small town Bubba has been living in all this time?? He hasn't been killing (nor apparently leaving his room) in an orphanage for all these years, yet this mom figure let him keep his chainsaw hidden away. Just in case?? Nothing about this mess made any sense at all, to the point that even the gore couldn't save it. The victim characters were loathsome. I couldn't have cared less about this depiction of Bubba, he had no personality. The only likeable character was Gun Dude. It constantly felt like there were ham-fisted social statements, but even those fell flat. Anyway, Thank you for this review!!
Haven't seen the movie yet, but the idea of making Sally this Laurie Strode 2018 character honestly just makes me believe more and more than Laurie's character being the way she was in halloween 2018 is a bit much (would have made more sense in H20) now that we've removed all of the sequels from canon. I think doing this with Sally is also too much and honestly she has a much better reason to be prepared for the worst more than Laurie ever did. These events happened so long ago and honestly Sally and Laurie are both not interesting from the killers' perspective. They were just missed moments. Texas chainsaw massacre 2 is the best way to continue Sally's story by having her uncle hunt down the people responsible for his nephew's death.
Honestly TCM 2 is like the best sequel and my favorite sequel to any horror slasher franchise. Yeah it’s goofy as well, but imo it’s respectful of the original while also moving the story along in a direction that MATCHES the pace of the original with the added wonks. In the original Drayton Sawyer/the siblings were already kinda goofy what with their playing around with Sally via the broom beating, teasing her at dinner and making a spectacle out of encouraging Grandpa to bring the one bashing her head in first. They’re mindless serial killers, and they get a HOOT out of it. TCM2 added to the story in its own unique way that many movies and sequels now don’t or fail to imitate/recreate/or are poorly inspired by. Stretch was an absolute amazing addition and her dynamic with Leatherface/Bubba really expands on his character being awkward/dorky on top of being an unstoppable killing machine who does it for family. God I love that movie.
When sally started doing the maniacal laugh strut when she was chasing after leatherface with the shotgun I thought "this film has jumped the shark". Only factor I did like with continuity was that they made Sally a Texas Ranger like her uncle (Dennis Hoopers character in TCM2).
24:39 - I literally gasped at how awful that line is. Someone thought they were clever... 'Time to clock out, this dialogue? Art. Nothing will top this.'
i havent seen the original or this one, but i play dead by daylight where you get to be bubba, and even im scratching my head on how they got this so wrong. my best guess is this was a different movie that wasnt texas chainsaw massacre, and some idiot with too much authority decided to shoehorn bubba into the script. i mean, is it cheaper to rewrite an existing script over just making a new one?
That's likely what happened, it happened with hellraiser too. Using the name and iconography to get one foot in or trust in investors and then just brute force the character into the movie. .if this was called anything but TCM i think it would've been alright movie. The dialogue is cringe. And they may have missed every landing with all the points and interesting stuff they tried to do, but with a few more rewrites and better dialogue this would've been a serviceable slasher movie if it didn't have the crush expectations of the original movie.
Honestly I feel like a lot of people making these remakes have never seen the original and just base it around what they think the character is like. Which in leather faces case ruins a lot about him
Tbh leather face not being a cannibal is definitely the worse part for me like. That's not something you can just change. It's an important part of his character. He is literally referred to as "The Cannibal" in some of his appearances. Like. This either had to be another movie that, at the last minute, was changed into a TCM movie. Or the creators who made this movie, doesn't understand this character or franchise.
This movie someone had a "Rural Revenge Killer" plot script that just had Leatherface shoehorned into it like the latter Hellraiser sequels did with Pinhead.
Two things I liked About this movie: Melody is super overprotective of her sister because her sister survived a traumatic event, she speaks out against guns and speaks over Lilah, it feels like the movie is saying “you have so much to say about trauma and how your sister is coping, lets put YOU through something traumatic and see how you handle it.” And in many scenes, Melody is frozen in fear, while Lilah comes to the rescue quite a bit. It’s a subversion of victims of trauma and it’s also commentary on how allies can sometimes do more harm than good, even if they mean well. The cinematography is gorgeous, I think despite the scripts flaws, the film is never ugly to look at, everything is shot in the correct spot and the kills are never out of focus, I also really love the sunflower maze. Im glad we get that whole sequence with Ruth because I think thats the best part of the movie.
Wait, did they just Terminator: Dark Fate the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise? •Old fan favorite protagonist comes back aged with a vengance •Unfortunately includes modern political and societal issues that deviate and detract from previous themes •Erases the previous sequels histories
If Leatherface put on different masks to emote/communicate different things in the OG then it makes perfect sense that his use of the face is to "pay tribute". He's basically enacting vengeance in her guise. Also, after he gets back to town you can see that he did tie the mask to his face. It's visible in shots from the side.
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I kinda felt some similarities with Friday the 13th and Halloween 2018? "Leatherface" going on a killing spree because his motherly figure was murdered. Jason killed the final girl that chopped of his mother's head. Sally coming back like a "badass" and being prepared to come face to face with Leatherface. Laurie in Halloween 2018. Idk I might be overthinking it or just disliking this movie.
I'm glad someone else thought the ending was hilarious. Also, what was their plan upon leaving? Were they gonna call the police or just leave the bodies there and let everyone wonder what happened to the group of rich people that went out to a ghost town in Texas?
I also love horror and slashers and the original Texas chainsaw. I watched the trailer and based off the line, “try anything and your cancelled bro” I won’t even give the film a chance. Some in the comments were praising that line saying they found it hilarious and I just don’t understand how anyone found that funny. Guess that makes me the odd one out but still
Sad part is that some people found it funny cause of how bad/cringeworthy that line was, Cause it’s so damn stupid. Other people found it genuinely funny cause “Haha look at people now a days, they’d never survive in a dangerous situation cause they’re too engrossed in there phones. Also see how stupid being “woke” is they’re trying to cancel Leatherface and he’s going to respond by killing them, I bet they wish they weren’t leftists/woke/anti-cop/anti gun now. Cause people who aren’t like them would know he was a threat and actually fight back to survive.”
Completely agree, thank you for breaking this nightmare down. I love the original and the comedic sequel. I came in with low expectations and still came out of it disappointed. Some of the kills were gory and great and the cinematography was really good but the story was a mess.
Todays audience “thinks” TTCM was all about blood and guts and body parts when it was the total opposite. It was a feeling of being trapped, isolated, helpless, and surrounded by people who were insane, covertly or outwardly. Leatherface is a person with emotions, fears, and motivations beyond just killing people. After 2003, Leatherface was *reduced* to a big hulking silent killer LIKE Jason, in favor of more stylistic and commercial approach to the masses. And now we arrive at this. Where TCM is an amalgam of Blumhouse’s aesthetic and Gen Z’s revival of 70s and 80s culture. Even the end credits has an 80s neon synth tone, but the ORIGINAL WAS IN THE 70s. So who was it for?
Preach it. I feel like the character of Leatherface was almost turned into Jason because it was all about revenge. I feel like the writers didn't even see the original and just wanted to make a by-the-numbers slasher with Gen Z-ers thrown in so the kids could see themselves represented. It was forgettable entertainment at best.
This movie actually made me angry by the end between its "gotcha" right-wing politics that it couldn't follow through on, to its cheap ripoff of Halloween that it used for a cheap emotional punch without actually getting the audience invested in that narrative, to its ultimate nihilism. But I found Wrong Turn on Hulu the next day and it washed most of that crap out of my memory for a bit with actual solid filmmaking.
I was waiting for someone to mention the right-wing politics. Granted, I haven’t watched the entire movie so I could be wrong, but from this and another video I’ve watched about it, it seems like there’s a lot of “just get over your trauma” vibes?? Like with the school shooting victim using a gun and the original final girl being a butcher. Like is the idea supposed to be that you should just “toughen up and face your fears” if you go through something super traumatic??? Like seeing people murdered levels of traumatic?? Idk weird choices
The thing is it had some nonsense right-wing politics, but people on the left just said it was bad and mocked it online and moved on with their lives. Imagine if Leatherface massacred a Trump rally? The right lost their mind over The Hunt and that made the right-wing woman the hero. The right is very sensitive.
The OG Texas Chainsaw Massacre was what made me love horror even more as a genre - The cinematography, the SOUND DESIGN, it's all so good it's art in the shape of a slasher. It hurts to see movies like this when there doesn't seem to be an understanding of what made the original so good.
I'm not an expert but I think a freshly peeled face would be sticky enough to stay on top of another face but with time i don't know if it would fall out or "cure" into place again, not an expert
Just based on the trailer I knew this movie would be bad, and it was. I did get some laughs every time Leatherface would just throw shit at people with perfect aim. Like during those 50 years he's been mastering the art of axe throwing and can do it with any blunt object
AHH. I actually went and watched the original for the first time before watching the new one. I really really enjoyed it (which was a weird realization). And this new Netflix movie was such a huge letdown. The mechanic was the best character. Hands down.
The forearm bones are the Radius and the Ulna. From what you described it sounds like Bubba stabbed the officer with his own fractured Radius (the one on the thumb side).
17:35 Or if she continued to eat meat, she did it in a concerning way like: 1. Binging it. Like whenever she butchers animals, she’s a little too aggressive or even into it. When she eats them, she consumes ungodly amounts and/or eats them in a more carnivorous manner. 2. Eating it blandly. When she butchers the meat, she’s out of it. It’s like she’s disassociating from what’s going on. Everything from preparation to consumption is done mechanically.
Okay so this old orphanage lady lives in Texas, and was most likely alive during all of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre stuff. There’s NO WAY, she didn’t hear about it. At some point, Leatherface finds his way to this orphanage, presumably still WEARING SOMEONES FACE, this lady, decides “oh this is definitely the mass murderer Leatherface, lemme take him in with the rest of these extremely vulnerable children and take care of him”, he stays for some reason? Why did she never think “oh shit, this is the guy that butchers people with a chainsaw and then cuts off and wears their faces, better call THE POLICE”
Great Video! I could not agree more. You pretty much summed it up in the beginning when you said " I would have liked it if it were not called the Texas Chainsaw Massacre." I first saw the original back in college in '96 since then I watch it every year on Halloween. The reason Leatherface changes his mask never occurred to me. Also, this was totally Michael Meyers in a skin mask.
Please just review old horror movies vs remakes (or even just old horror movies). I love hearing you break it down and I almost always agree with what you say. It’s nice to know I’m not the only person who felt that way about a certain movie
As bad as this was and yes, it made phrases like "do your thing cuz!!!" seem like articulate, well-constructed dialogue, the scene where Bubba wades his way through a bunch of 20-nothings made my heart sing Hosanna.
I actually liked the movie for two reasons: I had really low expectations for it and they killed that girl at the end. I didn’t like her from the beginning and was wondering when she was gonna be killed off. lol
Amandathejedi: The original was just gore, not realy acended horror. just a good time. Swell: -goes into anysis - (I'm not trying to say one is wrong, I just watched Amandathejedi's video, loved it, and noticed the diffrect approach. Love both videos SO MUCH)
There was not much gore in the original. It mainly was implied. The later movies, yeah, but that was after Friday the 13th, and Halloween made it okay to just do butcher shop scenes.
Well Amanda the Jedi missed the subtext about animal rights and what not, I would posit she is wrong in terms of Tobe Hoopers intent but of course it’s her take away from the film so it’s not wrong in that sense
My two cents: 1. The old lady could have acted hostile and racist towards the group to AT LEAST get us a little bit on their side. She was just an old lady that was nice to them. 2. Considering it's a direct sequel, how would Bubba be at this orphanage when he was clearly an adult in the first movie, I mean just don't call it an orphanage makes no sense. 3. It would have been funny if grandpa's body was still there exactly the same but now he's actually dead lol 4. HOW. WAS HIS CHAINSAW. SO DAMN SHARP. That thing stayed put for years with no maintenance. 5. Sally: you took everything from me. Leatherface: I don't even know who you are I mean she's been thinking about this revenge for years and Leatherface obviously doesn't remember the random teens he killed 50 years ago, so anticlimactic 6. Sally starts working as a butcher, then the final girl who's traumatized with guns starts using a gun what
your last point is spot on. its a real kick in the face to see that these huge movie productions are still basically just telling people to “get over it” in referral to their trauma. its not the 70’s anymore
100% the writers of this thought Leatherface was Jason or Michael Myers. I refuse to believe they could have written this dialogue and these motivations if they had EVER seen the first TCM film. They think he's a supernatural slasher villain, not a crazy person who wants to be pretty and likes killing.
One of the reasons why bubba is such a great character is because he has personality. He makes noises, he get upset, he gets happy, he is kind of sympathetic, he stands out from the other masked slasher killers. Instantly from the trailers of this new one I could tell they completely stripped him of his personality to make him into a typical lurking, silent, ruthless, Michael Myers type character, and I was so upset. They were 100% trying to compete with/emulate the new Halloween movies and its so frustrating and disappointing. (Especially because in my opinion Michael is a super boring character)
They turned Leatherface into Jason and took all his personality and vulnerability. Seriously, Leatherface licking his mask's lips as he nervously thinks about he's going to do the original is way more disturbing than anything in this movie.
I want to see Micheal versus Leatherface, and they're their 80-year-old selves. Leatherface can't pull the cord on his chainsaw hard enough to start it. So he just tries to swing it like a club, but he gets tuckered out quick. They both do. Literally, 80% of the film is them leaning up against stuff, trying to catch their breath. In the end they both die of exhaustion, and their franchises die with them (also of exhaustion)
My biggest issue is if you have a legacy character and their actor passes away, that character is no longer on the table. It would be just like recasting Nancy, or Laurie.
I had a hard time suspending disbelief that a 50 year old chainsaw can still work with apparently rotten gas in it or better yet, no gas. He could have broken into a hardware store instead.
I actually liked this movie because of the combination of how stupid the writing was and how brutal a lot of the kills were. I was laughing most of the time
I feel like not enough people talk about the disrespect of letting the final girl character of the original movie die on a literal pile of garbage lmaooo
It's a commentary on... something..
That’s atrocious to do to Sally. I’ll never watch this abomination
Each day my fear for Halloween ends grows…we all know what’s gonna happen
She shouldn't have been in the movie and the actress chosen to play Sally didn't fit. So yes Imposter Sally may die in a literal pile of garbage. It's almost poetic really
@@shadowman_nine damn, cold as ice. But I don't disagree
If they were going for an influencer angle, they could’ve gone for true crime content creators coming to Texas to cover the murders from the place it happened and then get terrorized by Bubba and a group of scary people who are way too into the history of the murders.
Your comment inspired me, what if it’s that these influencer types come to the town in search of bubba, w a woke internet mob mentality because they found out about the history after it went viral or something, commentary on how like true crime has gotten so big that anyone and everyone thinks they’re a detective/cop, so instead of caring about the people of the town or the actual murders they want the fame of being internet vigilantes. They take it upon themselves to enact “justice”and capture torture and abuse bubba and his caretaker. We then get to justifiably enjoy when he breaks loose and gos on a murdering spree cuz of them. He’s actually the age he’s supposed to be and we witness his struggle in his own fight to survive. We get the tables turned on us, who’s actually the villain here type of story.
That's pretty close to the Halloween remake which I think directly influenced this remake anywG
@@alylopez3721 that's a much better idea, I would pay to see that film. I only watched this because it was free and I was bored.
I even had a scarier dream of a story that can turn into a chainsaw film and would be more realistic. A father and his two teenage kids (girl(15) and boy(17)) go out to "hunt" for rabbits out in a deserted house and area, one they went to when they were kids. It was a gloomy day and they walk around all the rubbish and explore the place, while the dad stays in the van, crying and looking at pictures not shown on screen. He is full of hatred and misery. The kids return, one of them with an injury to his foot but doesn't tell his father or sister. As they drive away, the van "breaks down" and the dad can't figure out what's wrong. They walk back to the place where the dad now says an old man lives there, even though he mentioned earlier that the old man passed away. Finally while inside the dusty and somber looking house, the teenage guy with the injured foot gets frustrated and starts to break downs due to the pain. The father and daughter take a look and see that it's getting infected. The teenage guy wails that he wants the pain to go away NOW! Suddenly, out of the dark shadows next to the chimney, a dark large figure emerges, a figure that appears to be there, yet not. A figure almost demonic. The three stare at the looming figure, and the dad with tears on his eyes and a scowl tells the boy "he can take it away", pointing at the figure who now appears to have a chainsaw. At that, a loud demonic cackle is let out by the figure and the sound of a chainsaw can be heard wanting to start as the figure proceeds towards the boy. The girl lets out a scream as she tries to help her brother up but he falls down and the father pulls her away as they run out the door. The boy stares up at the figure with tears staining his face and terror in his eyes, asking him "what'd I ever do to you?". At that the figure brings down his chainsaw and slices the boys foot from the ankle as he slightly glides away. A wail of pain can be heard from the inside of the home, outside where it's now dark, the father and his daughter run away, with the father now acting more oddly than ever!
And that's the end of my dream but I bet it would make an even better movie than this "film".
I'd watch that movie, that sounds good.
watching that "you're cancelled, bro" moment, i think i cringed so hard i had a brief out-of-body experience
It's ironic that that moment made me think the writers are a bunch of out of touch boomers. Influencers are annoying but come on. Imagining thinking that badly about gen z when actual bad people exist in the world.
@@atheteusalexopoulos6876 the writers must really hate millennials and gen Z they think we are some kind of different species
@@atheteusalexopoulos6876 y'all thinking way too deep about it
@@mikeysbusy that might be the case if it was confined to this one film. But it’s one of many instances where millennials/gen z in movies/tv are depicted as social media obsessed imbeciles.
literally was one of the worst scenes ive ever seen.
"there's no cannibalism mentioned whatsoever"
Well Amanda, Hollywood is just not ready to address Armie Hammer's antics right now
We'll get there
wait what
@@weavery4292 he has a cannibalism fetish
Lmao
AND I *OOPED*
I don't watch a lot of slashers, but something that bothered me a lot was the inconsistency in reaction to injuries. Like some characters go down fast but the important characters have like 1000000 HP
That is how most slasher movies work
I saw a movie where a girl died from probably getting stabbed in the foot
the screen cut to black and in the end it revealed that everyone survived but that was just way too much of a stretch to think that someone could die from that
That’s your answer. Slasher films have RPG elements.
Honestly it's so crazy how killers are capable of killing men (in general so many people) in 2 seconds but some cute woman lead goes through Armageddon and a broken ankle and suddenly the she's giving them trouble. For whatever reason the teleportation they have has cooldown and they edge walk instead of walking at a pace that would outspeed a woman with a shattered ankle after she fell down stairs and got thrown into walls.
With “regular” stabbings i can give some benefit of the doubt because it actually takes longer than people might expect to bleed out AS LONG AS a major blood vessel or organ isn’t hit, especially with a sharp weapon that makes clean cuts. But a chainsaw?! Come the fuck on
If they wanted me to believe Sally would be working with meat at a slaughterhouse I'm gonna need a whole damn movie on that backstory took her from movie one to there, and even then it would be a very hard sell.
expensive healthcare and 50 years without therapy would explain it... very badly and lazily
yup, c'mon, after all that she went through the only possible scenario for her future would be having her mental health ruined forever. If you think about it though, most of slashers are supposed to be silly xd
Well it's a good thing they weren't trying to sell it considering she was cleaning out a pig on her own farm not the slaughterhouse. Sally became a Texas Ranger. Sally's grandfather also used to be a cattle rancher. Living in Texas and being a farm girl, it wouldn't surprise me she knows how to clean out an animal.
@@shadowman_nine i havent watched the original movie in a very long time so maybe i'm wrong but i thought that she was living in a city for majority of her life since she and her family moved there when she was little 😅
Pls correct me in case 😅
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I feel like the Sally thing could work if they like, leaned more into her having been super fucked up from the trauma? Like if their point was that being the final girl trauma had caused her to get an obsession with meat or violence or something, her psyche was completely broken bc of everything and instead of having an aversion to it she became obsessed w it. then her using the girls as bait could show just how much it fucked her up, bc she doesn't even care about their lives anymore since her only focus would be violent revenge? they couldve shown her hearing Ruth's radio call and that would be what prompted her to find them. i think that could've been fun but instead her character just seems extremely weird and off-brand
Like the first victim who survived Saw, right? She became his apprentice
in general that would be nice to rather make a movie about Sally and something connected with her life after events from 1st movie.
Something that irks me about Sally supposedly hunting Bubbha for fifty years is that she doesn’t think to look IN THE TOWN NEAR THE MURDERHOUSE! All 50 years of searching and not once did she think
“Let’s check the town that’s near the house. Considering it’s the only town for miles and miles. He may be hiding out there.”
I really hate bubba's character in this. I really don't think that bubba actually liked killing in the original but was doing it because it made his family happy. You can see the toxic relationship dynamics in the family in the first TCM. They abuse him, they call him names, he's afraid of his family and they it it that way because Bubba is fucking HUGE and they don't want him to get violent with them.
I really feel like Bubba is a sweet neurodivergent kid who grew up surrounded by evil and didn't know he could be nice or gentle. He only got positive reinforcement for killing people.
With the masks, I also always got the vibe that they were a way for him to hide from his family. To literally put on a brave face around them so he could deal with the abuse and brutality he faced.
There's that scene in the second one where he puts a face on the girl he's trying to save from his family, I always read that as him trying to hide her in the only way he knew how.
Idk, bubba is truly one of my favorite horror characters he's stuck with me for so long because he's also a victim of the family. The original made a character that killed nearly every character and I still feel sorry for him.
I love this so much, he's way more than just a spiteful, brutal killing machine, like yes he was the face (faces?) of the horror but his family seemed to be the ones influencing it. Comments like this and videos like this are so good at explaining the depth of Leatherface and why this movie is garbage and nothing short of a cash grab, point blank.
I always thought the mask were because he had facial deforminites (mainly getting that from TCM: The Beginning)
I love this about Bubba. He's as scared of the protagonists as they are of him. You can really feel this in the original movie when he runs around the house closing all the curtains in a panic. He's absolutely terrified.
People don’t realize that his character is way more than just the chainsaw. During the dinner scene in the original he is very sweet and gentle while looking after grandpa. And I always felt like him wearing the face with makeup was partially because he was trying to fill the traditional domestic caregiver roll due to the lack of living female relatives. Of all the popular slasher villains he is by far the most sympathetic and the best in terms of in depth characterization.
Yes!!!! I love this so much!!! This is so how I feel and he is my favourite for those reasons. He is a case study in nature vs. nurture and how easily that can ruin someone! I loves him.
This makes me actually glad that jason is stuck in a rights war. That's why there hasnt been any new friday the 13th films is because theres like 3? Different companies fighting for the rights to the franchise. I'm fine with no more jason movies. I'm fine with no more Michael movies. They should've left bubba alone too. Make! New! Killers!!! Our old slashers have had their runs! Make fucking new ones!
Honestly!! As a huge horror fan I am far more likely to go see a movie with a promising new killer than a studio beating a dead horse for a quick buck.
@@ashbubbax there are so many more interesting concepts that can be made! The dead by daylight games have so many good original killers! Not to mention the ideas that exist on the internet (I will say though most internet horrors turned blockbuster films are... bad *cough cough slenderman cough cough*)
Preach!!!
And if you're NOT going to make new killers, make the killers in the new stories be inspired by the older killers....it doesn't have to LITERALLY be Leatherface, or Jason or Michael. It would be so much more interesting to see a new killer who has soaked in those storylines. (And NOT in a dumb way like an ilegitimate kid or some horseshit, on the off chance that Big Hollywood is reading this and just had the worst lightbulb moment ever.) But TBH, let's just let all of these old storylines lay fallow for 20 years. We'd all benefit from that, but especially the characters.
That’s the best option, but if they absolutely for some godsforsaken reason have to redo old slasher movies just do a complete reboot. Stop with these sequels that ignore past movies and end up screwing up characters from past movies, just start anew.
And most importantly STOP TRYING TO MAKE THEM “MODERN”. Cause half the time when y’all do that you end up letting it show that you have a lot of contempt for murdering people/society/youth/etc. or you end up revealing some of your bigotry in the process. Also stop throwing out random words/phrases/things that are new trends on social media especially when you don’t understand the context. Like why did they have the whole “You try anything and we’ll cancel you” shot on the bus.
Here is my post credit scene. Leather Face goes back to the old house. He walks into the house and is met by Bubba and is killed. Turns out he was an orphan who was obsessed with the original killings and became a copy cat killer.
this is interesting
I busted out laughing when you said he wore the mask with makeup cause he wants to look pretty. I’m just imagining bubba every morning going like “hmm I’m feeling the fenty face today with falsies”
NOT THE FENTY FACE 😭💀
I want fanart of this
@@selectedshipper8282 theres a bts video of the original movie with Leatherface putting makeup on his mask
Amanda: "If you want me to be a vegetarian, yeah, that'd do it."
PETA: "Interesting. . .[takes notes furiously]"
WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
I told my husband at the end of the movie “it’s like they couldn’t decide if they wanted it to be a legit good horror movie, or a B horror movie” because I love both but the kills were too unrealistic and awful to be taken seriously but the acting and plot weren’t that of a B movie so I’m not sure what they were trying to accomplish.
I tend to not watch most movies, but what I do enjoy is watching people with some passion review it…. That and drag queens. I watched the Trixie and Katya like to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre first :)
This was the only reason I watched the movie tbh. I should have just watched Trixie and Katya watch it.
They definitely sold me on it
Coming from the field of psychology, there’s nothing more annoying than watching media that revolves around “I don’t know he’s just insane/crazy/mad”
I'm sick of having final girls train or come back for revenge. It's so obvious men are writing a story arc when I just want these women to be able to get as far away from their trauma as possible, that's my post trauma fantasy.
it being written by men has nothing to do with it. when a guy comes back for revenge its cool. but when a girl does it in a film its men forcing shit on women. why cant it just be a badass revenge story?(that was if they handled sally's return better that is and if this was a good movie lol) everyone has had trauma and everyone handles it differently men and women alike. but that doesnt mean a women wouldnt want to face her trauma upfront. just like a man has the right to distance themselves from it and heal a different way. why must be dictate how stories go because we dont understand that people handle things differently? fuck sakes.
EDIT: excuse the spellings errors 😂😂
@@kylemendes7246 because the entire writing staff of this movie and the Halloween story with a revenge plot are all men.
I think it works for a movie like Scream where it keeps following Sydney (i like how they handled it in Scream 5 especially) and it was novel in Halloween cause they fully explored the impact it would have on a family. But here, it just happens. No good reason, just so it can happen.
what a load of virtue signaling horsesh*t
It doesn’t matter who it’s written by tf. If it’s executed well like Halloween 2018 then that’s good, if it’s executed badly like in this movie then it’s bad that’s all. It doesn’t matter who wrote it. This goes for both male, female, etc leads returning. I think majority of people would want to actually get away from their trauma but the big difference is this is a movie so they don’t think like the average person.
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Never heard someone so legitimately upset about a lack of cannibalism before
And maybe never again
First, I appreciate that you don’t hate on the people who enjoyed the movie and aren’t trying to change their minds.
Second, I think you’re right and they absolutely tried to do make Leather face just like Michael Myers, even going as far as attempting to have Sally going full Laurie Strode. But the problem is that Michael Myers was described as being a a child with the strength of a man and the mind of an animal. Leather face is a massive man, with the strength to match, however he has the mind of a child which makes him relatively easy to control. Also it just seems like the modern slasher film doesn’t seem to write characters that are likable. I could be wrong.
i know right! i love the og film. i remember watching it for the first time and absolutely in love with leatherface. his mannerisms was child like and i find it soooo cute. this leatherface doesnt not giving 😔
Leatherface should've been starting his own, new family.
There, I wrote a better story in one sentence.
Leatherface's murder/found family killing some cultists. A movie I would watch.
Well Leatherface would probably not have that mentality of I need to reproduce I need to have a family but let's say he does I honestly really think he wouldn't care
@@Kryptic_sx Ew dude, not literally. He would be brining people into an adoptive family.
I'm thinking it would be an interesting twist if he either had the whole town converted into eating "meat", or he took these gentrifiers and turned them to it. He becomes a literal influencer, or cult leader.
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I really doubt he'd be able to do that honestly
@@natanaga9892 I've had a concept in my mind similar to that, 3 church goers in a small Texas town are sent menacing threats in the form of "signs". When they don't take it seriously they come face to face with a force of evil. I also want this film to be totally weird, even campy, with one of them being secretly gay. More of a "whodunnit" kind of film. Just simple and unnerving with a strange twist at the end where Leatherface is just revealed to be an internet account in the dark web or something like that lol! Also no massacre, with just 2-3 deaths total and a lot of screaming, tada! Cult of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
It was so tropey, so predictable, so disappointing. They didn't do any of the original characters justice and the new characters were so one note. Sigh. It came off like a boomer writing what they thought gen z would say in a given situation. There were a couple of good laughs. The ending of Mel's head getting cut off was fun. They had so much source material to work with and could have done a lot better. It seemed like they hadn't even seen the original movie
A boomer writing what they thought the youths would say is what I thought as well just based on the trailer. Specifically the “try anything and your cancelled bro” line, God that was a hacky line. People in the comments were praising that line though like it was hilarious. So I guess the audience is out there for hack writing. Anyway I’ll never watch this movie
@@baptizednblood6813 Or...bots but who knows. I'm not surprised by comment farms anymore but yeah that line was awful and I don't know if that was done as a 'commentary' or the writers hoping we'd be happy that guy got attacked for saying that. It just didn't work.
I really hate using 'boomer' too much but...yeah. Yeah, it really, REALLY was. I guess the thing that works from the original is that it came off being made from someone who was living directly in the middle of the counter culture movement as it was happen vs a Hollywood excet who feels like they're in such a secluded place that he doesn't get any of the locations they movie is set in.
It worked in the original but something about how they depicted so many things in this rubbed me the wrong way.
@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid yeah boomer is kinda over used but the shoe fits in this case lol. On the scardey cats channel he said this movie is very conservative and I also saw a comment of someone saying they loved the part where leather face killed all the “wokes” on the bus. So I think their target audience was people who hate “wokes” and “cancel culture” they weren’t even trying to capture any of the elements of the first movie
You missed the part where she uppercuts him with the chainsaw, after he was shot before he fell into the water. They turned this man into Jason.
God I love horror movies. I’m so glad “he doesn’t even consume flesh in this movie! There is NO cannabalism!” Can just be a perfectly normal and valid complaint about. A movie
Sally: HEY, remember me?!
Leatherface: *walks away*
Sally: I forgot how to pull the trigger.
Thank you for reviewing it so we don't have to! 🙆♀️
I watched itt
@@Gracecrazybee what's your review?
I LOVE SALLY!!!!! She’s one of my fave horror final girls so I’m really disappointed. I think they just wanted to do what the new Halloween films did with Laurie and it was just really disappointed. Also I think the original film was a commentary on the meat industry anyways so the fact that she’s just like cool with blood and stuff like makes no sense
Theres like, a lot of people out there who became vegetarian simply bc they see how animals are butchered. The idea that u could see ur friends and family treated like this and go on to become a butcher really only implies theres something majorly wrong with you. Like. If she was shown reluctantly eating meat after all these years i could see that, shes overcoming herself n stuff, but this was ridiculous.
Yup. Also wasn't she kinda squeamish over hearing about the butchering and skinning of animals too? And wasn't it kinda implied that she and her friends were fed human meat?
Yeah, totally would become a butcher if that was me...
I still don't understand how this is a sequel when it looks like "Texas Chainsaw's Days of Future Past." 50 years have passed but Leatherface looks the same age, nor was he already wearing a face at the beginning.
Not the right movie to blend school shootings and social media.
The mask in this looks like the scarecrow in Scary Stories.
(great thumbnail!)
That's my biggest problem. In the original Leatherface was probably pushing 30, which would mean he's pushing 80 in this movie. And yet he's able to hike all the way back to town, butcher everybody, literally lift Sally up into the air, all without breaking a sweat.
@@DTHains Yep. I thought, "who are you trying to convince? Someone who's never seen the original or are we supposed to believe he's suddenly immortal?" Although a chainsaw apparently makes him invincible.
I don't know how that isn't the first criticism out of anybody's mouth! Of all the inconsistencies in this, that one is so glaring that I can't even laugh at it. It's just so lazy and incompetent.
I remember when I was a kid and for the LONGEST time how Gunnar was in the top... 5 I'd say of Icelanders that had "made it" in Hollywood and there was such a collective pride around him, which thinking about it now and that he was playing a merciless-killer-cannibal makes me laugh.
None the less he did good and brought so much to Leatherface that obviously hasn't translated beyond him.
"Orphan Woman" is Alice Krige and if I were her, I'd have my credit removed from the IMDB page for this mess, too. She's an awesome actress and deserved better.
The borg queen herself? Nooo
This movie is up there with the NOES remake for me in terms of "movies where I would fist fight everyone involved in making it". The NERVE of them framing it as a direct sequel! It's insulting! Also if it's the same leatherface he's like, fucking 70 years old MINIMUM - old ass Michael Myers kinda works, this doesn't.
The gentrification thing almost works with the message of the original (commerce moving out of small towns and leaving people in poverty & people having to do monstrous things to survive) but it's done fucking terribly.
It gets Bubba so wrong, in the original he's helping his family survive & killing trespassers in his own home. In this one he's...mad that a random elderly woman who was maybe looking after him died (& it's not his mother, I refuse to accept that, it's canon to the original that Drayton raised all his brothers & they lived with their grandparents. In TCM3 a woman lives with them who they call "mama" but that movie also introduces new brothers so it's not super canon to the original either) while being evicted - so he kills a shedload of completely unrelated innocent people.
The reason Bubba killed in the original was to feed the family - AND THEY JUST LEAVE ANY MENTION OF CANNIBALISM OUT OF THIS!?
AND the mask looks like shit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He killed the cop in the back of the truck after she died then finished the other off after the wreck.
More like 80-90 but yeah it's all bad
I agree with soooo much of this!!!
They never should've tried tying it into the franchise. It should've been it's own movie. And leatherface vs cult, (chefs kiss) brilliant idea! That would've been great!
Also, texas chainsaw massacre is not a slasher movie. It's a cannibal/psycho family movie. Like hills have eyes or house of 1000 corpses.
I thought everything was implied pretty well during the "eviction" scene with the mom.
There is NO WAY that is suppose to be Bubba. He looks younger than Sally. He should be long dead at this point.
As far as him with the dress and makeup, that at least ties into where they got inspiration for this franchise I'm the first place.(ed gein)
Katherine on the bus was definitely stupid. She helped nobody. And that wasn't sludge. That had to be shit from that pipe. Lol
I never even saw where Lila got that little chainsaw from. I was like, "where the fuck did that come from?!?".
Overall I agree. This shouldn't have tied into the series. Also, they already did this movie. It was texas chainsaw 3d. That was a direct sequel to the original and it tied in a LOT better than this. This just looked like someone watched the new halloween amd said, "why don't we do that with leatherface too?".
This was more a comedy than horror or slasher flick. I laughed so hard at the ending death. Also...who's the maker of that chainsaw. To start after 50 years and still work once it was shot by a shotgun. Impressive.
Good ol American made machinery, not the modern crap made of plastic and spittle nowadays.
I started laughing so hard when I realized none of the events in the film would have happened if it wasn't for them getting offended over a confederate flag in a deep south hick town. What were they expecting? San Francisco?
I just want to know what went down in the writing room where they all conclusively decided that the catalyst of the plot should be a raggedy confederate flag.
@Anna Bev Keep in mind that the production of the film was a mess. With how it handles social commentary, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a last-minute solution.
Damn you're right. They tried to remove the Confederate flag and they all got massacred for it. Writers must be into that heritage not hate crap 😆 or it was a shit-show production as you said. A mess either way.
@Colten Gray Here's the thing: the Confederacy and any attempts to make it look good are trash. That said... they wanted to gentrify this town in Texas just because, right? And these investors are smart, right? You can leave the flag and twist its presence into your pitch. "This flag represents a broken, sordid past and the worst part of our country. We want to change this and the future of this town into a safe, inclusive one. Start anew."
Boom. And you can find another way to get Leatherface involved in the storyline. But this approach? Not to mention that the film was shot in Bulgaria so now I'm thinking whether the Confederacy made it there 💀.
Gotta promote your political agenda in modern cinema. It's not about the story or characters.
I always thought the OG Leatherface was so interesting because he felt more like a victim of circumstances. Yes, he killed and ate people, but for the most part he just didn’t want to get yelled at by his family. Everything he did was because he was forced to by his psycho relatives.
That’s why I didn’t like this movie all that much either. He just feels like a copy paste of every silent slasher villain with no personality of his own and no consideration as to what made him unique.
Honestly why would you put the car into auto pilot? After going through everything they did in that town I would've manifested rocket boosters out of nowhere to get away faster, not STROLL OUT AT A SNAILS PACE!
Lol characters not acting believably after this sort of ordeal is a pet peeve of mine. I agree, jet out of there, drive to a major city and keep watching their back in paranoia, not laugh and relax and grabass.
I was actually surprised how much I enjoyed it, not because it was scary at all, but because it was so FUNNY lmao.
When he threw that hammer and she flew down the stairs glhkrkh
2:26 YES - part of the horror of Leatherface (and the family) is that they are, in fact, humans who are capable of such heinous acts.
Michael Myers being basically immortal is part of that universe, it doesn't work in any other horror setting (at least not as well as it does for Halloween)
and taking him away from the family really doesn't make sense, Bubba is Leatherface because of the family.
Here's how I would write the Sally part:
After the events of the first film, Sally goes to a mental hospital
When Sally hears about Leatherface going on a killing spree again over a radio in the asylum, she decides to escape, steal a gun and a cowboy hat, and enter Harlow, all the while she is batshit insane
Basically a reverse Halloween kind of
"Is he just not a cannibal now?"
I think it's like the vegan phase we all go through in college. You grow out of things
OMFG THANK YOU!
All of it. just terrible.
So Sally has been living for this vengeance moment for 50 years... a short drive from the extra-small town Bubba has been living in all this time?? He hasn't been killing (nor apparently leaving his room) in an orphanage for all these years, yet this mom figure let him keep his chainsaw hidden away. Just in case?? Nothing about this mess made any sense at all, to the point that even the gore couldn't save it. The victim characters were loathsome. I couldn't have cared less about this depiction of Bubba, he had no personality. The only likeable character was Gun Dude.
It constantly felt like there were ham-fisted social statements, but even those fell flat.
Anyway, Thank you for this review!!
Yeah it doesn't make sense, she became a ranger to find him.... But never checked his home town?
Haven't seen the movie yet, but the idea of making Sally this Laurie Strode 2018 character honestly just makes me believe more and more than Laurie's character being the way she was in halloween 2018 is a bit much (would have made more sense in H20) now that we've removed all of the sequels from canon. I think doing this with Sally is also too much and honestly she has a much better reason to be prepared for the worst more than Laurie ever did.
These events happened so long ago and honestly Sally and Laurie are both not interesting from the killers' perspective. They were just missed moments. Texas chainsaw massacre 2 is the best way to continue Sally's story by having her uncle hunt down the people responsible for his nephew's death.
Honestly TCM 2 is like the best sequel and my favorite sequel to any horror slasher franchise. Yeah it’s goofy as well, but imo it’s respectful of the original while also moving the story along in a direction that MATCHES the pace of the original with the added wonks. In the original Drayton Sawyer/the siblings were already kinda goofy what with their playing around with Sally via the broom beating, teasing her at dinner and making a spectacle out of encouraging Grandpa to bring the one bashing her head in first. They’re mindless serial killers, and they get a HOOT out of it. TCM2 added to the story in its own unique way that many movies and sequels now don’t or fail to imitate/recreate/or are poorly inspired by. Stretch was an absolute amazing addition and her dynamic with Leatherface/Bubba really expands on his character being awkward/dorky on top of being an unstoppable killing machine who does it for family. God I love that movie.
I actually enjoyed Laurie on Halloween 2018, though I will concede it may be due to Curtis' performance.
When sally started doing the maniacal laugh strut when she was chasing after leatherface with the shotgun I thought "this film has jumped the shark". Only factor I did like with continuity was that they made Sally a Texas Ranger like her uncle (Dennis Hoopers character in TCM2).
24:39 - I literally gasped at how awful that line is. Someone thought they were clever... 'Time to clock out, this dialogue? Art. Nothing will top this.'
We watched it as a family late night and we were like ‘is it over yet?’ It was so stupid. God! I hated every second of it.
i havent seen the original or this one, but i play dead by daylight where you get to be bubba, and even im scratching my head on how they got this so wrong.
my best guess is this was a different movie that wasnt texas chainsaw massacre, and some idiot with too much authority decided to shoehorn bubba into the script. i mean, is it cheaper to rewrite an existing script over just making a new one?
That's likely what happened, it happened with hellraiser too. Using the name and iconography to get one foot in or trust in investors and then just brute force the character into the movie.
.if this was called anything but TCM i think it would've been alright movie. The dialogue is cringe. And they may have missed every landing with all the points and interesting stuff they tried to do, but with a few more rewrites and better dialogue this would've been a serviceable slasher movie if it didn't have the crush expectations of the original movie.
Honestly I feel like a lot of people making these remakes have never seen the original and just base it around what they think the character is like. Which in leather faces case ruins a lot about him
I like how you and AmandaTheJedi had similar reactions to the canceled line. I think we all did lol
Tbh leather face not being a cannibal is definitely the worse part for me like. That's not something you can just change. It's an important part of his character. He is literally referred to as "The Cannibal" in some of his appearances. Like. This either had to be another movie that, at the last minute, was changed into a TCM movie. Or the creators who made this movie, doesn't understand this character or franchise.
Every time a new TCM sequel comes out I appreciate how wired and original TCM 2 was
This movie someone had a "Rural Revenge Killer" plot script that just had Leatherface shoehorned into it like the latter Hellraiser sequels did with Pinhead.
This 🤣 it definitely felt like that
Her takes on horror movies are always my favorite
The confusion on your face when you pause and go “what is this? This isnt a femur” is 50% adorable 50% relatable
Two things I liked About this movie:
Melody is super overprotective of her sister because her sister survived a traumatic event, she speaks out against guns and speaks over Lilah, it feels like the movie is saying “you have so much to say about trauma and how your sister is coping, lets put YOU through something traumatic and see how you handle it.” And in many scenes, Melody is frozen in fear, while Lilah comes to the rescue quite a bit. It’s a subversion of victims of trauma and it’s also commentary on how allies can sometimes do more harm than good, even if they mean well.
The cinematography is gorgeous, I think despite the scripts flaws, the film is never ugly to look at, everything is shot in the correct spot and the kills are never out of focus, I also really love the sunflower maze. Im glad we get that whole sequence with Ruth because I think thats the best part of the movie.
Wait, did they just Terminator: Dark Fate the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise?
•Old fan favorite protagonist comes back aged with a vengance
•Unfortunately includes modern political and societal issues that deviate and detract from previous themes
•Erases the previous sequels histories
If Leatherface put on different masks to emote/communicate different things in the OG then it makes perfect sense that his use of the face is to "pay tribute". He's basically enacting vengeance in her guise. Also, after he gets back to town you can see that he did tie the mask to his face. It's visible in shots from the side.
I just want to say that I absolutely love the pacing and vibe of your videos. You’re always the first channel I go to for chill videos, nothing loud or crazy, like even this video is still really chill. I love them thank you
I kinda felt some similarities with Friday the 13th and Halloween 2018?
"Leatherface" going on a killing spree because his motherly figure was murdered. Jason killed the final girl that chopped of his mother's head.
Sally coming back like a "badass" and being prepared to come face to face with Leatherface. Laurie in Halloween 2018.
Idk I might be overthinking it or just disliking this movie.
I'm glad someone else thought the ending was hilarious. Also, what was their plan upon leaving? Were they gonna call the police or just leave the bodies there and let everyone wonder what happened to the group of rich people that went out to a ghost town in Texas?
I also love horror and slashers and the original Texas chainsaw. I watched the trailer and based off the line, “try anything and your cancelled bro”
I won’t even give the film a chance. Some in the comments were praising that line saying they found it hilarious and I just don’t understand how anyone found that funny. Guess that makes me the odd one out but still
I mean I found it funny in a cringe way, does that count 😂😂
@@kianna270 yes cringe laughing at that is okay haha, maybe that’s what those other commenters meant as well, hopefully
Sad part is that some people found it funny cause of how bad/cringeworthy that line was, Cause it’s so damn stupid.
Other people found it genuinely funny cause “Haha look at people now a days, they’d never survive in a dangerous situation cause they’re too engrossed in there phones. Also see how stupid being “woke” is they’re trying to cancel Leatherface and he’s going to respond by killing them, I bet they wish they weren’t leftists/woke/anti-cop/anti gun now. Cause people who aren’t like them would know he was a threat and actually fight back to survive.”
@@erockbaby3000 yeah I’m sure there is a bit of that for sure, like Amanda said, it’s like boomers writing what they think a gen z kid would say
Completely agree, thank you for breaking this nightmare down. I love the original and the comedic sequel. I came in with low expectations and still came out of it disappointed. Some of the kills were gory and great and the cinematography was really good but the story was a mess.
Todays audience “thinks” TTCM was all about blood and guts and body parts when it was the total opposite. It was a feeling of being trapped, isolated, helpless, and surrounded by people who were insane, covertly or outwardly. Leatherface is a person with emotions, fears, and motivations beyond just killing people. After 2003, Leatherface was *reduced* to a big hulking silent killer LIKE Jason, in favor of more stylistic and commercial approach to the masses. And now we arrive at this. Where TCM is an amalgam of Blumhouse’s aesthetic and Gen Z’s revival of 70s and 80s culture. Even the end credits has an 80s neon synth tone, but the ORIGINAL WAS IN THE 70s. So who was it for?
It's for the studio to cash in on legacy films which in of itself is annoying as all hell.
Preach it.
I feel like the character of Leatherface was almost turned into Jason because it was all about revenge. I feel like the writers didn't even see the original and just wanted to make a by-the-numbers slasher with Gen Z-ers thrown in so the kids could see themselves represented. It was forgettable entertainment at best.
Making this guy immortal was a low blow and only spoiled the movie more for me, I don't even want to imagine what comes from now on
This movie actually made me angry by the end between its "gotcha" right-wing politics that it couldn't follow through on, to its cheap ripoff of Halloween that it used for a cheap emotional punch without actually getting the audience invested in that narrative, to its ultimate nihilism. But I found Wrong Turn on Hulu the next day and it washed most of that crap out of my memory for a bit with actual solid filmmaking.
I was waiting for someone to mention the right-wing politics. Granted, I haven’t watched the entire movie so I could be wrong, but from this and another video I’ve watched about it, it seems like there’s a lot of “just get over your trauma” vibes?? Like with the school shooting victim using a gun and the original final girl being a butcher. Like is the idea supposed to be that you should just “toughen up and face your fears” if you go through something super traumatic??? Like seeing people murdered levels of traumatic?? Idk weird choices
The thing is it had some nonsense right-wing politics, but people on the left just said it was bad and mocked it online and moved on with their lives. Imagine if Leatherface massacred a Trump rally? The right lost their mind over The Hunt and that made the right-wing woman the hero. The right is very sensitive.
@@lawcane trueee
@Like Button what people saying not to watch the last Spider-Man movie?? What are you even talking about??
@Like Button also the conservatives complain about every movie that dares to have even a single poc or woman character like the new Jurassic park lol.
The OG Texas Chainsaw Massacre was what made me love horror even more as a genre - The cinematography, the SOUND DESIGN, it's all so good it's art in the shape of a slasher. It hurts to see movies like this when there doesn't seem to be an understanding of what made the original so good.
I'm not an expert but I think a freshly peeled face would be sticky enough to stay on top of another face but with time i don't know if it would fall out or "cure" into place
again, not an expert
'Not an expert', that is EXACTLY what an expert would say!
@@svenleeuwen how do YOU know what an expert would say o-Ô
@@cigimon4 Oops!
Just based on the trailer I knew this movie would be bad, and it was. I did get some laughs every time Leatherface would just throw shit at people with perfect aim. Like during those 50 years he's been mastering the art of axe throwing and can do it with any blunt object
There’s a book that was one of the top horror books on goodreads list for 2021 you might appreciate. It’s called the final girl support group.
AHH. I actually went and watched the original for the first time before watching the new one. I really really enjoyed it (which was a weird realization). And this new Netflix movie was such a huge letdown.
The mechanic was the best character. Hands down.
the mechanic in a town of no vehicle owners...??.riiiight
The forearm bones are the Radius and the Ulna. From what you described it sounds like Bubba stabbed the officer with his own fractured Radius (the one on the thumb side).
My cousin once accidentally said "Mexas Tainchaw Sassacre" and my life hasn't been the same since
They really said “everybody liked the woman suit from silence of the lambs right? Let’s do that again!”
17:35 Or if she continued to eat meat, she did it in a concerning way like:
1. Binging it. Like whenever she butchers animals, she’s a little too aggressive or even into it. When she eats them, she consumes ungodly amounts and/or eats them in a more carnivorous manner.
2. Eating it blandly. When she butchers the meat, she’s out of it. It’s like she’s disassociating from what’s going on. Everything from preparation to consumption is done mechanically.
Leather Face was legitimately the Hero of this Movie. My God, I have never wanted a group of people to die so badly in my entire life.
Okay so this old orphanage lady lives in Texas, and was most likely alive during all of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre stuff. There’s NO WAY, she didn’t hear about it. At some point, Leatherface finds his way to this orphanage, presumably still WEARING SOMEONES FACE, this lady, decides “oh this is definitely the mass murderer Leatherface, lemme take him in with the rest of these extremely vulnerable children and take care of him”, he stays for some reason? Why did she never think “oh shit, this is the guy that butchers people with a chainsaw and then cuts off and wears their faces, better call THE POLICE”
Sally spent 10 minutes (exaggerating) standing and pointing at leatherface with her boom stick and not doing anything
Great Video! I could not agree more. You pretty much summed it up in the beginning when you said " I would have liked it if it were not called the Texas Chainsaw Massacre." I first saw the original back in college in '96 since then I watch it every year on Halloween. The reason Leatherface changes his mask never occurred to me. Also, this was totally Michael Meyers in a skin mask.
Please just review old horror movies vs remakes (or even just old horror movies). I love hearing you break it down and I almost always agree with what you say. It’s nice to know I’m not the only person who felt that way about a certain movie
As bad as this was and yes, it made phrases like "do your thing cuz!!!" seem like articulate, well-constructed dialogue, the scene where Bubba wades his way through a bunch of 20-nothings made my heart sing Hosanna.
I actually liked the movie for two reasons: I had really low expectations for it and they killed that girl at the end. I didn’t like her from the beginning and was wondering when she was gonna be killed off. lol
Amandathejedi: The original was just gore, not realy acended horror. just a good time.
Swell: -goes into anysis -
(I'm not trying to say one is wrong, I just watched Amandathejedi's video, loved it, and noticed the diffrect approach. Love both videos SO MUCH)
There was not much gore in the original. It mainly was implied. The later movies, yeah, but that was after Friday the 13th, and Halloween made it okay to just do butcher shop scenes.
Well Amanda the Jedi missed the subtext about animal rights and what not, I would posit she is wrong in terms of Tobe Hoopers intent but of course it’s her take away from the film so it’s not wrong in that sense
I'm surprised that's Jedi's take.
My two cents:
1. The old lady could have acted hostile and racist towards the group to AT LEAST get us a little bit on their side. She was just an old lady that was nice to them.
2. Considering it's a direct sequel, how would Bubba be at this orphanage when he was clearly an adult in the first movie, I mean just don't call it an orphanage makes no sense.
3. It would have been funny if grandpa's body was still there exactly the same but now he's actually dead lol
4. HOW. WAS HIS CHAINSAW. SO DAMN SHARP. That thing stayed put for years with no maintenance.
5. Sally: you took everything from me.
Leatherface: I don't even know who you are
I mean she's been thinking about this revenge for years and Leatherface obviously doesn't remember the random teens he killed 50 years ago, so anticlimactic
6. Sally starts working as a butcher, then the final girl who's traumatized with guns starts using a gun what
your last point is spot on. its a real kick in the face to see that these huge movie productions are still basically just telling people to “get over it” in referral to their trauma. its not the 70’s anymore
100% the writers of this thought Leatherface was Jason or Michael Myers. I refuse to believe they could have written this dialogue and these motivations if they had EVER seen the first TCM film. They think he's a supernatural slasher villain, not a crazy person who wants to be pretty and likes killing.
Can we talk about the fact that Leatherface is at minimum in his 70's at this point...
Leatherface leaping up out of the water like a dolphin made me lol
One of the reasons why bubba is such a great character is because he has personality. He makes noises, he get upset, he gets happy, he is kind of sympathetic, he stands out from the other masked slasher killers. Instantly from the trailers of this new one I could tell they completely stripped him of his personality to make him into a typical lurking, silent, ruthless, Michael Myers type character, and I was so upset. They were 100% trying to compete with/emulate the new Halloween movies and its so frustrating and disappointing. (Especially because in my opinion Michael is a super boring character)
They turned Leatherface into Jason and took all his personality and vulnerability. Seriously, Leatherface licking his mask's lips as he nervously thinks about he's going to do the original is way more disturbing than anything in this movie.
personally I recommend watching it with a group of friends, makes the whole thing incredibly funnier, mainly how bad the kills are
I want to see Micheal versus Leatherface, and they're their 80-year-old selves. Leatherface can't pull the cord on his chainsaw hard enough to start it. So he just tries to swing it like a club, but he gets tuckered out quick. They both do. Literally, 80% of the film is them leaning up against stuff, trying to catch their breath. In the end they both die of exhaustion, and their franchises die with them (also of exhaustion)
Tbh what about a movie starring as many horror icons as possible all decrepit living in a old folks home constantly trying to knock each other off
Watching this as i get my tattoo! Thanks for posting at the perfect time!
This review is amazing, so funny and logical. I haven't watched this movie and probably don't intend to, but I'd love more horror movie reviews!
Can't wait for the like 7 versions of pinocchio that are supposed to come out. Ahh late stage capitalism.
My biggest issue is if you have a legacy character and their actor passes away, that character is no longer on the table. It would be just like recasting Nancy, or Laurie.
Most of this movie was pure comedy
especially the bus scene lmao
I can’t believe after “killing” leather face, the girls stay in the town the whole night and chose to leave in the morning.
I only watched this movie because the orphanage woman is The Borg Queen( Alice Krige) and I’m a huge Star Trek fan.
I had a hard time suspending disbelief that a 50 year old chainsaw can still work with apparently rotten gas in it or better yet, no gas. He could have broken into a hardware store instead.
The real reason to watch these reviews is Amanda's personality.
I actually liked this movie because of the combination of how stupid the writing was and how brutal a lot of the kills were. I was laughing most of the time