Director: David Blue Garcia
Cast: Sarah Yarkin , Elsie Fisher , Mark Burnham , Jacob Latimore , Shintaro Shimosawa , Moe Dunford , Nell Hudson , Jessica Allain , Olwen Fouéré , Sam Douglas , John Larroquette
Plot: Melody (Sarah Yarkin), her teenage sister Lila (Elsie Fisher), and their friends Dante (Jacob Latimore) and Ruth (Nell Hudson), head to the remote town of Harlow, Texas to start an idealistic new business venture. But their dream soon turns into a waking nightmare when they accidentally disrupt the home of Leatherface, the deranged serial killer whose blood-soaked legacy continues to haunt the area's residents -- including Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouéré), the sole survivor of his infamous 1973 massacre who's hell-bent on seeking revenge.
My Movie Review: The movie is sloppy and gratuitous killing spree with standout deaths but a poorly written story that ruins the experience. Leatherface deserves better. Believe it or not, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is another cautionary tale about gentrification and pure gore horror! I was honestly quite impressed with the cinematography, production, and pacing of the first half, despite the silliness of the plot that was clearly a way of setting up a smorgasbord of fodder for Leatherface and boy does he take advantage were we learned so much of him! Though the humanization of the character was palpable and refreshing, that all disintegrates in the second half as gone wrong, where the movie follows every horror trope and then one-ups it with the stupidest decisions, most obvious plot holes and some laughable absence of realism! In the first half however we have typical local hick who's expected to be one of the antagonists but lo and behold he's actually a great guy, I enjoy the good and the bad, the suspense, gore but sadly, Texas Chainsaw Massacre suffers from a lot of problems, I am not confident about it! Many of the shots were visually stunning especially the scene in the sunflower field, were just shy of beautiful in a grisly way even its quite hunting there's some subtle struck in its stillness! The whole bus scene was both funny in a satirical way, disturbingly gruesome, and yet what preceded it made absolutely zero sense, if only the flick stuck to its guns with the deviations from horror norms it could've been a solid installment in cesspool of a series working together:)
Critics Consensus: Texas Chainsaw Massacre doesn't skimp on the gore, but Leatherface may have irrevocably lost his ability to terrify. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 is a gnarly movie but is otherwise uninteresting in some ways, boring. The cash grab attempt, specifically, is quite blatant. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is so shallow and meaningless that any subtext is impossible. It just wants to get to the killing, it doesn’t care what it has to do to get there. Texas Chainsaw Massacre completely ruins the original, and any fan of that movie should steer far, far away from its latest installment and hope that the franchise will now stay dead and buried for good. This Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot/sequel is the best out of the bunch, even though saying so isn’t much. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is filled with bloody kills, and as the title promises, a massacre inside a party bus soon follows in the movie. Brings Leatherface into a contemporary story, rather than keeping him stuck in decades passed, echoing Hooper’s film in the most important ways by holding focus on socioeconomic issues and Leatherface’s queered identity. The comparison of today's influencers to the hippies of the original film is tremendously entertaining. It tries to be cool and modern yet unfortunately does the opposite, creating jam-packed 83 minutes of uninteresting, try-hard cheese, its completely unnecessary:(
