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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-millennial .. Read more

Starring Andrew Bryniarski, Jordana Brewster, Cyia Batten, R. Lee Ermey
Director Jonathan Liebesman
Genres Horror

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning

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-millennial gloss by former music video director Marcus Nispel. For his second feature, director Jonathan Liebesman (DARKNESS FALLS) follows suit.

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 among refuse by his adoptive mother. Twenty years later, Chrissy (Jordana Brewster), Dean (Taylor Handley), Bailey (Doira Bird), and Eric (Matthew Bomer) are driving cross country. 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 massacre is about to begin!

Starring Andrew Bryniarski, Jordana Brewster, Cyia Batten, R. Lee Ermey, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, Matthew Bomer
Director Jonathan Liebesman
Studio ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 32 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 18.gif
Genres Horror
Language English
Released DVD: 05 Feb 2007
Production year: 2006
Format DVD
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    Rated - 5 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Awesome

    I've never really invested my time in this cult movie until recently. I rented the remake and it had the same impact Saw did the first time i watched it. It takes films like the recent Wolf Creek to it's limits. I've been to see TCM: The Beginning last night at the cinema in the dead of night and that chainsaw sounds so loud it's awesome. This film goes a long way to explain how it started, and i was hooked from start to finish, even if i was cringing at the gore on screen. I won't give the plot away although generally the theme to film is already established. It certainly helped me point the finger to who provoked the massacre. A great film! Go watch, if you can hack it :-)

    • MrG
      • MrG from Hadley, Telford
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    TCM: The Beginning

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    • Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning
      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, ...