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Having been sheltered for half a century, Leatherface is back to cause more mayhem.

What can you say, I waited ages to see this film, I had really high expectations, kind of like those I had for Halloween 2018, only that was good, this certainly wasn't.

I'll start off with the positives, visually it's superb, beautifully shot, with some great location work, and some impressive scenes, I liked the music also, it wasn't overly done.

Sadly the positives are few and far between, if you watch the original, and followed it up with this, you'll see what a pale imitation this is.

On the downside, firstly, some of the acting isn't up to scratch, at times it had the made for TV feel about it, it perhaps doesn't feel deserving of the title.

The characters are just awful, Leatherface just seems so out of sorts, and as for the crows of youngsters seeking a better life, they're all just loathsome, none of them have any redeeming features. That scene where they all pull out their phones.... I know what I thought.

Fortunately it's not a long film, at just over ninety minutes.

Had the potential to be a good watch, it wasn't, 4/10.

Sally too emerges aft 50 years hibernation only to be thrown in a dumpster.

In Leatherface (2017), they showed a boy in an orphanage n how this boy descended into madness n later went on to become Leatherface. It was a true origin story n i liked it cos of its avoidance of tropes. The 2017 version has amazing star cast who gave memorable performances. It has top notch cinematography n heart pounding tension.

In this installment, Leatherface is hiding/hibernating after the events of the original 1974 version. How can u hide or hibernate for 50 years?

How is Leatherface still fit n healthy?

And how conveniently the chainsaw is hidden in the wall for all these 50 years without spoilage or rust.

And since when did Leatherface became supernatural?

How he survived those shot gun shootings n chainsaw attack is beyond me.

Generous with a 4 cos of its attachment n some very brutal scenes.

The two scenes, the hammer hitting the leg n the cop's elbow being broken, gave me creeps.

The face being smashed into pulpy watermelon was too much for me.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise has been an absolute mess for over a decade & to be honest the only good films in the whole franchise is the original 70's Classic & the excellent Early 2000's remake, all other films have been terrible.

Now we have another sequel to the first film only that uses the original survivor final girl Sally to face off with Leatherface finally.

The characters here are crappy idiots, the new generation of idiots that live for their mobile phones & the popularity that digital love gives them & makes them "Popular" or even famous. The group of youngsters move to a crumbling old Texas ghost town to reopen for some business venture but end up getting the attention of serial killer Leatherface. This film is very short & rushed. The characters are not likeable & are those smart-ass "Woke" type of idiots & they make the absolute WORST decisions ever. The kids are dumb & deserve to die.

The remaining character from the 70's original returns towards the end & she's even DUMBER!!!

This old witch-looking hag, Sally, has waited for 50 years to get revenge of Leatherface & when she confronts him while he's sat down without his Chainsaw, she has a shotgun aimed at him but doesn't shoot him????? She could end him right there but of course she's STUPID like everyone in this crap film.

The mess is just FRUSTRATING & REALLY DUMB.

Another piece of shi# in the messy franchise.

Everything you want in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie: School shootings, cancel culture, racism, white guilt, social media, Jamie Lee Curtis V. 2.0, Gentrification.

Imagine the worst type of writers, working with the worst kind of producers, hiring the worst possible actors for the worst possible type of film. That's what this is.

Yeah, the characters suck. Yeah, there are plot holes, and dumb decisions. But these people in the comments seem to have forgotten just how ridiculous the first one was. Are you going to tell me that Franklin was the pinnacle of character development? Do you remember the names, or "back stories" of any of the other characters in the first one, aside from "vague hippie"? This one followed fairly well in the spirit of the first one. Two-dimensional characters make dumb choices, hide in stupid places. And get slaughtered. There are some memorable kills, and some pretty sly references to the original. Overall, not bad; you guys need to stop acting like the first one was Citizen Kane, because it definitely wasn't. Old Fogies wrapped up in nostalgia really missing out on a bit of campy fun in this one. Will I watch it again? Probably not, but I don't regret seeing it.

Awful, really bad.

The good? Some nice gore.

The bad? Literally everything else, whoever wrote this script should never write a script again. The bar for Chainsaw sequels was already low, so I guess it's some kind of achievement to lower it further.

I admit that I went into this with low expectations because of a few bad online reviews but it wasn't nearly as bad as I'd heard and I actually quite enjoyed it.

I'm not one to focus on plot holes, as if you watch a movie where someone wears other people's faces to butcher everyone then it's not going to be completely true to life. That said, there were a couple of moment where even I shouted 'oh come on...'

An easy watch with some good death scenes and a couple of satisfying swipes at cancel culture.

A solid 7 out of 10.

More horror films/reboots need to learn from this. 74 minutes (without credits), wham bam thank you mam, no messing around, doesn't try to be clever, just gets the job done for the fans. The modern viewer doesn't want 2 hours of drawn out Texas Chainsaw taking itself way too seriously. The story doesn't make much sense and the acting is pretty lame. But this is what you want, or at least expect, from an old school slasher which follows the tried and tested formula. There were some fun kills and a few jumps. But basically it was a short and sweet, quickly paced, old school slasher film executed with even a bit of flair and style. The wheel has not been reinvented, but this was precisely what was required in 2022 for a low budget reboot of a classic. Maybe it could have done more, but I think what it achieved is not to be underestimated, when the vast majority of horror films that follow a dated formula like this flat and take themselves far too seriously and have no style or gumption.

I don't know what everyone is complaining about, this was not bad at all.

It's a splatter fest, with some pretty twisted kill scenes. It's not Shakespeare. No intelligence is required.

None of the characters are particularly likeable and in classic Horror movie lore, that means a grizzly demise.

I gave it a 6/10 which in all honesty is a great score for a B Movie splatter fest.

Whenever I watch a Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel, I realize what makes the original 1974 film so iconic. This 2022 sequel is also a completely forgettable one, ideally made for instant consumption with not much to read into. The script is a bland mess - there's zero depth to any of the characters, including Leatherface himself. It doesn't even bother to show that Leatherface has been living in hiding all these years because he pops up exactly when you expect him to, unlike in the original where you gasp for a few moments. If you haven't watched the original, it will simply seem like a big, bulky guy randomly going on the run with a chainsaw in hand, chopping people. In my eyes, there's no Leatherface without the Sawyer family.

Where it does score a little is in the gore department. Some kills end up being a lot bloodier than you might think. But the payoff is so little I couldn't care less for any of the characters or the surface-level social commentary it offers. The bus scene is a gory delight, serving up a couple of minutes of good, old-fashioned slice & dice. The Sally Hardesty subplot is a replica of what they tried to do with Laurie Strode in the Halloween sequels, sans any texture. I loved Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade, but this film doesn't even attempt to get anything out of her. The atmosphere too, didn't evoke Texas enough. I'm not exactly interested in another sequel to this, but I'd still watch it because of its connection to the original.

The ninth installment of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (TCM) franchise and a sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), while effecting a retcon of all previous sequels.

No wonder why Legendary Pictures sold this film to Netflix, they knew if they released it in theaters, they won't even getting back the production budget.

Even though I enjoyed the whole vibe of the film, it overtakes Leatherface (2017) as the worst TCM film in the franchise. I never expected this from Fede Álvarez, he should've never picked this newbie screenwriter and director with no prior experience handling valuable IPs like this.

A geriatric lumberjack carves up a bunch of annoying internet influencers. Parts of it are outright laughable in how stupid the characters are behaving. I would normally root for the villain but not even this Leatherface deserves that.

Want to have a better time? Count the number of times the letter 'v' appears in the end credits.

Oh and as if I needed more proof that self-driving cars are dumb.

Leatherface yeets people with a chainsaw in perhaps the bloodiest installment of the franchise. That's really all you need to know, and really all you could realistically hope for in what is essentially The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 9.

I was honestly quite impressed with the cinematography, production, and pacing of the first half, despite the silliness of the plot that was clearly a way of setting up a smorgasbord of fodder for Leatherface. And boy does he take advantage. Though the humanization of the character was palpable and refreshing, that all disintegrates in the second half, where the movie follows every horror trope and then one-ups it with the stupidest decisions, most obvious plot holes and a laughable absence of realism. In the first half however we have your typical local hick who's expected to be one of the antagonists but lo and behold he's actually a great guy. Many of the shots, especially the scene in the sunflower field, were just shy of beautiful in a grisly way. The whole bus scene was both funny in a satirical way, disturbingly gruesome, and yet what preceded it made absolutely zero sense. If only the flick stuck to its guns with the deviations from horror norms, it could've been a solid installment in this cesspool of a series.

The writer shouldn't write ever again. The writer shouldn't write ever again. The writer shouldn't write ever again. The writer shouldn't write ever again.

Watched this last night, and it was a fun enough time. The story and characters are... ok. It's very bloody, gory and brutal and the characters are terribly and annoyingly stupid just for the purpose of driving the story along. Nothing new for a slasher, but it's very annoying.

That said, it is very creepy and intriguing, and the cinematography is decent. I found myself hiding behind a pillow a lot, mostly because the kills were so brutal, but also because I was terrified at certain times.

A good enough watch if you're a horror/TCM fan, but don't expect a great movie. Would never pay to watch it outside of a streaming service.

Worth a watch if you.

Putting aside Netflix budget, production values and a funny scene at the bus where Leatherface destroys the cancel culture (wink), this is an awful movie. It feels much more like a betrayal to the original movie rather than a welcome addition. Non sensical, populated with dumb characters, with no plot and leaves you with a strong feeling of wasting your time. Dead wrong.

David Blue Garcia's 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' looks cheap, sounds cheap, and thinks cheap. The script is busy and unconvincing, with the attempts at "social commentary" are laughable and much of the acting is lousy. Everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. It is nice and mildly satisfying seeing insultingly stupid characters get ragdolled around though.