Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 57
As an ugly and cynical attempt to rebrand Leatherface as horror anti-hero, Texas Chainsaw 3D is a bold move for the franchise.
Average Rating: 2.7/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 10
As an ugly and cynical attempt to rebrand Leatherface as horror anti-hero, Texas Chainsaw 3D is a bold move for the franchise.
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A chainsaw-yielding killer known as Leatherface terrorizes a group of young teens.
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Cast
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Alexandra Daddario
Heather Miller -
Dan Yeager
Leatherface -
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Scott Eastwood
Carl, Deputy Carl Hartm... -
Tania Raymonde
Nikki -
Shaun Sipos
Darryl -
Keram Malicki-Sánchez
Kenny -
James MacDonald
Officer Marvin -
Thom Barry
Sheriff Hooper -
Paul Rae
Burt Hartman -
Richard Riehle
Farnsworth -
Bill Moseley
Drayton Sawyer -
Gunnar Hansen
Boss Sawyer, Boss Sawye... -
David Born
Gavin Miller -
Sue Rock
Arlene Miller -
Ritchie Montgomery
Ollie -
Marilyn Burns
Verna, Verna Carson -
Dodie Brown
Loretta Sawyer -
David "Bear" Bell
Bear Sawyer -
John Dugan
Grandfather, Grandpa Sa... -
Samuel McKinzie
Young Leatherface -
Veleka Gray
Receptionist -
Scott Martin
Bartender, Hargrove -
Tori London
Scared Girl -
Justin Howell
Drunk High Schooler -
Jonathan Reed Wexler
Hardware Store Cashier -
Nikolette Noel
Supermarket Co-Worker -
Anthony McCullough
Townie -
Trey Songz
Ryan -
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The original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" leaves audiences feeling hollowed out, dispirited and dissolute. "Texas Chainsaw 3D" is simply a bummer for being a big nothing.
Top CriticAs pointless as one feared it might be.
Alexandra Daddario, playing a distant Leatherface cousin set to inherit the manor (and manner), continues her sad career in unbuttoned bondage, and the 3-D effects are especially ruinous.
All the makers of "Texas Chainsaw 3D" cared about was getting your $16.
Try as [Luessenhop] might to honor the original -- flashbulb transitions, a skeevy (yet buff) hitchhiker, metal doors, and meat hooks -- there's little of its mounting dread.
An effort is made to provide some character definition for Leatherface, which is probably a mistake. He's much scarier as a cipher.
There's a great deal of potential in the approach. The execution, however, is half-baked and half-assed.
It deserves a modicum of credit for actually making you despise a chainsaw-wielding maniac less than a bunch of lowlife redneck scum.
Texas Chainsaw immediately establishes itself as a significant improvement over the various other entries in this enduring franchise...
The equivalent of filmic road kill ... An abridged version of the original, rendered in bad 3D, serves as a pre-credit set-up and makes us long for the real deal.
You may think that after six movies that there would be nothing left to say on the topic of Texas chainsaw massacres, and you would be right.
Director John Luessenhop delivers some jolts as well as much gruesomeness, but a bogus ending and the convoluted morality of a script that tries to transform the vengeful Leatherface into a sympathetic if psychotic antihero hamstrings his efforts.
( ... ) you might want to imagine I'm wielding a chainsaw that's making the noise rrrrrrrrrrrLLLLLLLLL! And that, as I write, I'm chopping up the three scriptwriters and three story writers on the grounds of over-manning (ditto, nine producers).
Leatherface is a loser.
Seeing a flick in January usually means lowering your expectations, but no moviegoer should have to endure this.
Leatherface is the smartest one in this picture: he's the only one with the good sense to cover up his face so no one will know he was involved in this putrid waste of time.
This new film survives on its formulaic horror mechanics and the powerful image of a chain saw wielded in 3-D.
There are some gory kills and some goofy fun as a huge chainsaw thrusts out of the screen in 3D, but this is a generic by the numbers slasher that squanders TCM's grimy history.
Includes some of the absolute worst 3-D effects that I can ever remember seeing.
Texas Chainsaw 3D is the sort of movie that makes you wish they made kevler contact lenses.
"Texas Chainsaw 3D" is not a very original slasher film. It mostly serves fans of the horror genre with its stereotypical characters and gore.
When making a sequel to a beloved genre classic, it's generally unwise to include clips of the masterpiece you're attempting to live up to.
An inane, insane horror movie but Alexandra Daddario makes it bearable.
An artless exercise, but also sporadically successful in its attempts to expand on the Leatherface mythos in a new-ish way.
math doesn't mean much in Texas Chainsaw, nor does logic, for that matter, or anything resembling originality or daring
It feels more like a non-scary 'Scary Movie' spoof than the real deal, such is its lack of genuine tension.
Audience Reviews for Texas Chainsaw 3D
Super Reviewer
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- Ryan: Who is that?
- Nikki: Hey...Hey... [Leatherface comes]
- Ryan: Go!
- Nikki: What? Oh my God!
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- Heather Miller: [throws Leatherface's chainsaw to him] Do your thing, cousin!
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- Heather Miller: So, you're a Hartman.
- Deputy Carl Hartman: Yes I am.
- Heather Miller: [tries to stab Carl in the neck] I'm a Sawyer!
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- Officer Marvin: [sneaking into the house, hoping not to get caught by Leatherface] POLICE!
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- Ryan: Did grandma like to play a little pool?
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- Ryan: Did you get him!?
- Nikki: I don't know!
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Alexandra Daddario stars as a girl on her way to New Orleans with her friends for Mardi Gras. On the way, they must stop off in Texas, as she's apparently inherited a bit of property from a grandmother she never knew she had. This property comes with stipulations, all hidden neatly in a letter the lawyer instructs her to read right away. She ignores this advice and soon is facing down Leatherface himself, now 20 (or 40) years older than he was in the original movie. The redneck townsfolk who killed Leatherface's family off all those years ago are now in charge of the town, and they're ready to finish the job they started. Of course, Leatherface is still a chainsaw-wielding cannibal, yadda yadda, let's not hold that against him please. You eat a few people and the next thing you know, people are trying to burn your house down, jeez. And, that's basically it. There's no real plot to speak of, just a lot of running around, running away, and getting caught. There is an abundance of unrealistic computer animated gore that just doesn't have any effect on me at all. It's almost cartoon-like. Texas Chainsaw 3D is a failure in just about every way. A big, dumb bore.