The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviewed- Day 9- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

Fifty years after the events of the first film, we find a group of young people arriving in a near-deserted Texas town, looking to buy properties to renovate and transform the town into something more vibrant. When they force an old woman out of her home, she dies from the trauma. But they pay for …

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviewed- Day 8- Leatherface (2016)

Teenaged Leatherface and his pals escape from a mental institution and take a nurse with them against her will. A sheriff is following in hot pursuit. Another prequel but this time with two actors of name who I actually like (Stephen Dorff and Lili Taylor). And kudos to them for signing up to a TCM …

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviewed- Day 7- Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)

A young woman finds out she has been left property in Texas in a relative’s will. Her and her friends travel down to check it out. But they encounter more than they banked on (i.e. a chainsaw-wielding psychopath). I somehow didn’t go to see this film when it was released. I think that even with …

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviewed- Day 6- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

A young woman dies whilst giving birth at her place of work which is a slaughterhouse. Her unscrupulous boss dumps the newborn child in an industrial wastebin outside where he is discovered and rescued by Luda Mae Hewitt who names the child Thomas…And that’s as much as I can bear to type. I hate prequels. …

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The Texas Chainsaw Massscre Reviewed- Day 5- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Five teens are travelling from Mexico to Dallas for a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert when the hitchhiker they pick up blows her brains out in their van. They then go to report it but encounter ‘the family’ on the way. If you're travelling to go and see Lynyrd Skynyrd rather than Lou Reed in the early …

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviewed- Day 4- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995)

Two prom night couples accidentally crash into a car and then cross paths with you know who when they go for help for the driver of the hit car. The Next Generation was directed by Kim Henkel who wrote the original. This entry ranges from mildly interesting (the first ten minutes) through to generic tedium …

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviewed- Day 3- Leatherface- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1990)

I remember having a poster of Leatherface which came free with an issue of Gorezone. I asked my teacher if I could put it on my school common room wall which got a muted reaction to say the least. Here, a couple who are travelling through Texas take a wrong turn and…you can guess the …

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviewed- Day 2- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (1986)

The first time I found out that there was a sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was when I was going through the racks of records in Track Records in York, where I grew up (York, not the record store, although I spent a lot of time there). I pored over the artwork and …

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviewed- Day 1- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

I first saw this classic when I was a late teen, studying for my A-levels at college in 1994. My friend taped this for me on the same tape as Last House on the Left. With it being copied from a copy, the picture and audio were crappy, but somehow this added to the experience …

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Amityville Reviewed- Day 17- Amityville: No Escape (2016)

Another found footage Amityville entry. This has two stories taking place in two separate time periods. This bears all of the components for Amityville franchise entries of this era- namely it’s boring, has a mercifully short running time and is a good cure for insomnia. Again, this is terrible. And what makes it worse is …

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