The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

What you know about fear... doesn't even come close.

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Release Date: Oct 06, 2006
Rated: N/A | Runtime: 91 Mins | Language: English
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Stars: Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, Matt Bomer, R. Lee Ermey, Lew Temple, Andrew Bryniarski

Summary

Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.

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What to Expect

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a prequel to the 2003 reboot, an origin story set in 1969 about how Leatherface came to be. Like the reboot, this is also a Michael Bay film meaning if you're like most people you'll either love it or hate it. I personally loved it, I actually loved it more than the reboot. The Beginning has the same crazy gore and stunning cinematography as the reboot, but a deeper story and more interesting characters all around. The Beginning is the 6th movie in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, a franchise based on one simple story line: A group of friends traveling through the middle of nowhere Texas become the targets of a family of psycho killer cannibals, led by a chainsaw swinging freak. This is the 6th movie to use this same story line. So, needless to say I went into this expecting to see the same story with yet another cast. But, I have to say, this prequel to the sequel really delivered.

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Critic Reviews:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning is one of the best new horror movies I have seen in a while.

– Horrorfreak News

Whereas the other Texas Chainsaw Massacre films were inventive in their arrangement of the basics, the plot here unimaginatively follows the path of the original..

– Moria

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a top-notch grindhouse flick perfect for the Halloween season. It's also the best this series has seen in twenty years.

– The Film File