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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 153
Fresh: 55 | Rotten: 98

An unnecessary remake that's more gory and less scary than the original.

17

Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 30

An unnecessary remake that's more gory and less scary than the original.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 375,165

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One of the most infamous horror films of the 1970s is revisited in this remake produced by action-spectacle maven Michael Bay. In the summer of 1973, four teenagers -- Erin (Jessica Biel), Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), Kemper (Eric Balfour), and Andy (Mike Vogel) -- are driving through Texas on a road trip when they pick up a hitchhiker, Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), who is on her way to Mexico to score some dope. With Pepper adding to the party atmosphere, the other four decide to join her, but as

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Scott Kosar

Mar 30, 2004

$80.1M

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Critic Reviews for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

All Critics (159) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (100) | DVD (41)

An initially promising, but quickly disappointing retread of Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel's hugely influential horror classic.

April 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
Scott Foundas
Variety
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'Inspired by a true story' presumably adds to the sordid thrills; maybe we should look forward to entertainments about Nazis torturing children.

April 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (3)
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Here's a slice of advice: Go to the video store and rent the original.

October 3, 2006 | Comments (2)
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
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The best one can say is that his version is not slavishly in thrall to Hooper's: boring, fright-free and pointless, maybe, but not craven.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Time Out
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All the bad-rehash mojo from Friday the 13th to The Blair Witch Project has infected Scott Kosar's script.

January 15, 2004
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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... a bloody good time of a B-movie.

October 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment (1)
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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Hard to do worse than this extremely gory mess.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Beth Pratt
Common Sense Media

This poor mediocre remake brings nothing and adds nothing to an already classic film...

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Even a paint-by-numbers slasher is a novelty in this decade.

June 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Inevitably, given a bigger budget, it lacks the cheap, raw quality of the earlier film that, along with George Romero's outfit in Pennsylvania, showed you could make profitable exploitation shockers on an independent basis far from Hollywood.

April 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Philip French
Observer [UK]

Just needlessly ugly and unpleasant, not to mention Hollywoodized down to its muddy shoes.

August 3, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

You'll have to overcome resentment towards this unnecessary remake before you can be properly terrorised but, on its own terms, it plays well.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

The biggest question for me is 'Why?'

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Kevin Carr
Film Threat
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is yet another misfire in terms of a remake. Before I go any further, I do believe that there are some good remakes old and new, but with this one, the filmmakers failed to really create something good, instead giving horror fans a watered down film that lacks in terms of effective scares and memorable tense moments. The biggest problem with remaking classic horror films is that the studios go for style over substance, and they create something laughable in the process. This film has joined other remakes as one of the worst in the genres history, and it is just a poor attempt at making a quick buck. I think that the film felt rushed and there was no care at trying to create a worthwhile viewing experience. The film has a cast of horrible actors that will never have outstanding careers. Most of them will probably end up acting in critical bombs as they're not talented enough to make a good movie. R. Lee Ermey is the only one who shines here, however I found him to be wasted in such a lacking movie. The film's horrifying moments don't pay off, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre simply plays out like another run of the mill pointless remake that never should have seen the light of day. The cast make it significantly a worst movie, and you simply don't care about what happens to them. The gore elements are there, but what it lacks is the sheer genuine intensity that Tobe Hooper's original delivered so well. Don't expect much from this movie, and you definitely will be disappointed if you're looking for a truly good horror film to watch.
August 30, 2011
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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Michael Bay's lot began their remake reign of "terror" with this completely unnecessary movie that I just stared at with complete weariness and annoyance. It's got more gore and aggresiveness in it than the 70's cult classic and what Bay doesn't realise is that blood and guts is not what made the original film absoultely terrifying. All of his horror remakes generally follow this formula. That it's primarily repulsive deaths that made his reimagining's inspirations scary. It's not. I have no problem with him remaking good horror films if they add something to the blender that works and also dont strip them entirely of their pride by doing something different for the better. Unfortunately, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had it's skin ripped off by Michael Bay.
January 18, 2012
Directors Cat
Directors Cat

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Quotes

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    1. Erin Hardesty: I didn't go to Mexico to watch you get s**t-faced for four days.
    2. Kemper Hardesty: That's what you do in Mexico!
    – Submitted by Douglas J (11 months ago)
    1. Sheriff Hoyt: Lift her up and just kind of pull her over your way there. She ain't gonna bite you. She's deader than a goddamn doornail.
    – Submitted by Dan P (19 months ago)
    1. Erin Hardesty: What's wrong with you fu**ing people?
    2. Sheriff Hoyt: (smiles) Nothing wrong with us.
    – Submitted by Creep F (24 months ago)
    1. Erin Hardesty: (yells) THAT'S NOT YOUR BABY!
    – Submitted by Creep F (24 months ago)
    1. The Tea Lady: Oh, my. Oh, my, my, my, my, my.
    – Submitted by Creep F (24 months ago)
    1. Henrietta Sawyer: Sweet boy. He's no harm. He always keeps to himself. Skin disease. He was just a little boy when it started. Didn't you look at his face?
    – Submitted by Creep F (24 months ago)

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