Rarely does a horror movie come along where I feel myself having envy for the characters who meet their demise in it. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a great exception to this. The people that are brutally slaughtered get lucky compared to the people that are watching this bullshit.
A big problem with movies like this one, is that they feel like adding gore in every scene will hide the fact that there's really nothing going on, certainly nothing suspenseful or frightening at all. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an empty, hollow mess that ups the amount of gore in hopes of compensating for the lack of....pretty much anything else.
TCMTB comes off more like an endurance test or a trip to the hospital then it does like an actual horror movie. There is no fun to be had here at all. The sense of humor is just too played-out and the death scenes come across as mean instead of entertaining. Very little development is given to the characters as well, so when they end up on the losing end of a chainsaw, you really don't give three fucks which is a big problem for a horror movie.
In addition to being ridiculously overdone in the use of gore, TCMTB is just a giant bore. You know the drill by now. Anyone who is not related to the bumfuck family is going to end up dead and/or eaten, so when scenes as mentioned follow...there's no element of surprise or unpredictability here. It's just a below standard entry into a series that really shouldn't have that many sequels/prequels to begin with. It's time to put this baby to bed.
1/4
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