The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Blu-ray)
What you know about fear... doesn't even come close.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 6, 2010
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Ais
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jordana Brewster & Andrew Bryniarski | |
Performer: | Cyia Batten, Diora Baird, Matt Bomer, Taylor Handley, Lee Tergesen, R. Lee Ermey, Lew Temple, Heather Kafka, Marietta March & Terrence Evans | |
Directed by | Jonathan Liebesman | |
Edited by | Jonathan Chibnall | |
Music by | Steve Jablonsky | |
Screenwriting by | Sheldon Turner | |
Story by | David J. Schow & Sheldon Turner | |
Produced by | Mike Fleiss, Michael Bay, Andrew Form & Bradley Fuller | |
Director of Photography: | Lukas Ettlin | |
Executive Production by | Robert Kuhn, Guy Stodel & Jeff Allard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
A noisy prequel to the 2003 remake that revs up the power tools to disguise its pointlessness.
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BBC.com
Oppressive, mean-spirited and sadistic, The Beginning is an unsavoury exercise in cruelty and pain that one hopes will also be the end.
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Time Out
Rating: 6/10 --
It's actually closer to the original Chainsaw than its immediate predecessor, but it still relies on more on physical torture than the psychological terror that made the original - or any genuinely scary movie - so effective.
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ComingSoon.net
Rating: 1/4 --
...an ugly film, overwhelmed by transparent shock value, short-sighted storytelling and nihilistic undertones.
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Cinemaphile.org
Rating: 0/4 --
This is the Texas chainsaw massacre, not the Texas chainsaw misunderstanding. Nothing castrates a bogeyman like cheap-Freud psychology, and Leatherface possesses no greater power than a hulking professional-wrestling heel. A low point in American horror.
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The Film Yap
Rating: 1/4 --
The original "Chain Saw Massacre" spoke, in unsettling terms, to middle America's growing contempt for the '60s counter-culture, but no deeper meaning can be ascribed to this mayhem. It's just a joyless technical exercise.
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San Francisco Examiner
Rating: 2/5 --
Gross and sadistic but never scary.
Arizona Republic
Product Description:
Though it's spawned a handful of sequels, it took more than 30 years for Tobe Hooper's ever-potent horror classic to get an "origin" story. Why is Leatherface so angry' Whose face does he wear as a mask' How did his family get their taste for human flesh' A 2003 remake revisited the original film, painted with post-millenial gloss by former music video director Marcus Nispel. For his second feature, director Jonathan Liebesman (DARKNESS FALLS) follows suit, though wisely eliminating the heavy rock soundtrack of the remake.
The film opens with the 1949 birth of the child who would become Leatherface--to an obese slaughterhouse worker. She dies during childbirth and the deformed baby is later found in a dumpster by his adoptive mother. Twenty years later, Chrissy (Jordana Brewster), Dean (Taylor Handley), Bailey (Doira Bird), and Eric (Matthew Bomer) are driving cross country before Dean leaves for his second tour of duty in Vietnam. A run-in with some bikers leads to an intervention by crazed cannibal clan leader Hoyt (R.Lee Ermey), who has just killed the sheriff of the dwindling Texas town and taken on the mantle himself. The chainsawing begins soon after.
The film opens with the 1949 birth of the child who would become Leatherface--to an obese slaughterhouse worker. She dies during childbirth and the deformed baby is later found in a dumpster by his adoptive mother. Twenty years later, Chrissy (Jordana Brewster), Dean (Taylor Handley), Bailey (Doira Bird), and Eric (Matthew Bomer) are driving cross country before Dean leaves for his second tour of duty in Vietnam. A run-in with some bikers leads to an intervention by crazed cannibal clan leader Hoyt (R.Lee Ermey), who has just killed the sheriff of the dwindling Texas town and taken on the mantle himself. The chainsawing begins soon after.