Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 83
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 73
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is full of blood and gore, but not enough scares or a coherent story to make for a successful horror film.
Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 16
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is full of blood and gore, but not enough scares or a coherent story to make for a successful horror film.
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Bear witness to the birth of the most horrifying legend in the history of cinema as director Jonathan Liebesman explores the nightmarish origins of the psychotic Hewitt family in this sequel to director Marcus Nispel's 2003 hit The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The year is 1969, and despite the fact that the Vietnam War is raging halfway across the globe, all is ominously quiet on the back roads of America. Eighteen-year-old Dean Hill (Taylor Handley) has just received his draft notice, and his older
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Cast
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Jordana Brewster
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Taylor Handley
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Diora Baird
Bailey -
Matt Bomer
Eric Hill -
R. Lee Ermey
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Andrew Bryniarski
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Lee Tergesen
Holden -
Terrence Evans
Monty -
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Marietta Marich
Luda Mae -
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Lew Temple
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Cyia Batten
Alex
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All Critics (89) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (81) | DVD (22)
Gross and sadistic but never scary.
Top CriticOppressive, mean-spirited and sadistic, The Beginning is an unsavoury exercise in cruelty and pain that one hopes will also be the end.
Attention sadists: Demand more from your gorefests than this pro forma return to the well. Has mass murder ever been this dull?
The story's been played out so many times.
All you need to know about the character is he's really crazy and carries a chain saw. And he's got an even crazier uncle who all but steals the film.
It's as remorseless and disheartening as any of the others, more gory and less scary.
This barely-watchable hackfest can't even generate decent shocks or T&A, and manages to render the formidable Leatherface into little more than a goofy, chainsaw-waving mascot.
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.
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.
Much less at the beginning, and much more a remake of the remake...
Bloody gore fest retreads old gruesome ground.
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.
A rote latter-day slasher film with barely anything worth recommending.
...an ugly film, overwhelmed by transparent shock value, short-sighted storytelling and nihilistic undertones.
...unsightly, pointless, and thoroughly mean-spirited...
A garden-variety horror movie that provides no innovation on the old "kids stranded in the woods with a scary monster" plot.
Audiences will start playing the 'Who's Next' game as people run, scream and die, and the whole thing loses the power that this horrific creation once had over cinema.
The focus in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning isn't on the confrontation of demons, moral reckoning, or terror. It's an unimaginative exercise in suffering.
Audience Reviews for Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Super Reviewer
I'll start by saying this is not a film in any meaning of the word it's just a studio milking one of the easiest cow's to milk for cash in the history of horror cinema. So here's the making of: A bunch of bank managers got together and stripped a classic horror film a.k.a "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (almost) entirely of it's pride. They then decided after stealing 51 million dollars with a remake that they wanted more. So they then took a classic movie with an inspired story and made a pointless prequel with a storyline probably made up on the spot. This so called storyline was the back story of one of the most iconic and terrifying horror characters in history and destroyed his reputation by explaining why he is, the way that he is, and why he brutally murders people with a chainsaw. Is that in any way scary? Hell no.
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- Sheriff Hoyt: A man's home is his fuckin' castle!
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- Sheriff Hoyt: I started to think you like wasting my time blonde. Hurry up! [while Dean puts dead biker lady in front seat]
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- Eric Hill: How many?
- Chrissie: Three. All boys
- Eric Hill: What are their names?
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- Sheriff Hoyt: People may not remember what we say here tonight, but by God they'll remember what we did.
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- Monty: (Monty is urinating) You little bastard, I know you got more in there.
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- Sheriff Wintson: I often ask myself, 'What makes a man a killer?'
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