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Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
DVD/APPROX. 89 MINS/2006/USA UNRATED
DVD/APPROX. 89 MINS/2006/USA UNRATED
It's 1969 and the American government is still drafting young men to fight in the Vietnam war. Eric (Matthew Bomer) just got back from the war but
has decided to re-enlist so he can join his newly-drafted little brother Dean (Taylor Handley). As the two brothers take one last road trip though
Texas with their girlfriends Chrissie (Jordana Brewster) and Bailey (Diora Baird), they run into a bit of trouble when a biker (Emily Kaye) decides to
leave her gang to rob the four a few miles up from the gas station. Eric reaches for his handgun in the glove department while driving the Jeep, not
aware of a cow passing on the road ahead of them. He plows right into the beast splattering its guts all over as the Jeep overturns and crashes.
The biker beings to take advantage of the wounded and dazed teenagers, holding Eric at gun point with a double barrel shotgun and demanding
cash. This is where Sheriff Hoyt (R. Lee Ermey), formally known as Charlie Hewitt, Jr, arrives on the scene to save the day...well, not exactly! He
blows a hole in the biker within seconds of arriving at the accident and then takes Eric, Dean and Bailey back to his mamma's house so Tommy
Hewitt (Andrew Bryniarski) can strip their flesh right down to the bone with his chainsaw. Meanwhile, Eric's girlfriend Chrissie, who was thrown
from the Jeep in the collision, tries to save the day by getting the biker's boyfriend to help her out. Unfortunately, Sheriff Hoyt's Uncle Monty
(Terrence Evans) gets shot in the leg by the mad biker demanding to know where his girlfriend is and later has to get his legs amputated by
Leatherface's chainsaw. To this day, the Hewitt family is well-known for being the most sadistic, cannibalistic, inbred and psychopathic family in
Texas. And you are about to witness the beginning of it all and how Tommy Hewitt became Leatherface...
I am a huge fan of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), which I first saw when I was about ten years old. Seeing a guy running
after hippie teenage women with a chainsaw, hanging them up on meat hooks and clubbing their boyfriends with a sledgehammer definitely
warped my little mind in a good way. I finally found another horror icon other than Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees or good old Freddy Kruger and
his name was Leatherface. A retarded, deformed, psychopathic and sadistic killer who had the brain power of a seven year old child but the
strength of ten men. Then, in 2003, they decided to remake Tobe Hooper's pride and joy. I personally hated this idea, because they were going to
fuck with the original, which to this day never needed a touch up. Director Marcus Nispel remade Tobe Hooper's classic The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre (1974) and fucked it up worse than any other director could have. I mean, what was the guy thinking when he wrote the script? He
introduced so many new characters, which seemed unnecessary, but we still got to see Leatherface tearing it up again with his chainsaw. Then in
2006, director Jonathan Liebesman decided to bring us a prequel to Marcus Nispel's remake instead of using Tobe Hooper's original film. I have to
hand it to Liebesman, though. This guy made a fucking awesome film. Shit, the guy should of directed Nispel's film also, that's how much I enjoyed
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning shows us how and why Tommy aka Leatherface and the Hewitt family became such violent and
sadistic killers. Tommy's mother Sloane (L.A. Calkins) gave birth to him in the slaughterhouse and he then was thrown in the dumpster by Ed (Tim
De Zarn), the owner of the slaughterhouse. Luda Mae Hewitt (Marietta Marich) finds the deformed infant as she is scavenging though the
dumpsters looking for food. She cuddles Tommy like he was her own and takes him back home where he is raised by the Hewitt family. Jumping
ahead a few decades, Tommy is a fully grown man and works in the slaughterhouse. After several years Tommy has become an expert with the
butcher's knife and knows how to strip clean the meat off a beast. That is, until the slaughterhouse is closed down and they have to sack Tommy.
The manager tells Tommy there is no more meat coming in or out of the slaughterhouse tells Tommy to go home, but Tommy doesn't listen until the
manager calls him a retard. Later that afternoon Tommy comes back to the slaughterhouse to seek revenge on Ed and takes to him with a
sledgehammer...from then on Tommy becomes Leatherface.
The acting in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning was spot on, you can't bitch or whine about anything. Actor R. Lee Ermey who plays
Sheriff Hoyt definitely stole the spotlight in this film. He definitely knows how to get your attention in any film. He is demanding, pissed off and
doesn't take shit from anybody, and I wouldn't be surprised if he is like this in real life. Another actor I have to praise is the beautiful Jordana
Brewster, who you probably remember from films like The Faculty or The Fast and the Furious. In this film she kinda reminds me of Eliza Dushku
from Wrong Turn in regards to her performance. As for Andrew Bryniarski, who reprises his role as Leatherface from Nispel's remake, he does a
remarkable job. I would even go as far to say that he was nearly as good as Gunnar Hansen (who played Leatherface in Hooper's original). Wait
and see for yourself and you'll know what I am talking about.
The gore and blood levels are off the charts! The special effects, done by KNB EFX Group, are extremely sick (and I mean sick)! You will see skin
being peeled off, legs and arms amputated by chainsaws, dead bodies hanging from the ceilings, Leatherface ramming his handy chainsaw into
people's guts, chests, and stomachs, shotgun scenes, bear trap scenes, torture scenes...man, you name it and it will appear in this film.
Gorehounds are going to love the kill and torture scenes in this film, and you even get to see Leatherface's first face he skins and uses as a mask.
I can't recommend this DVD enough, guys. It has everything a horror fan wants and if you somehow enjoyed the Nispel remake, this film is far
more enjoyable to watch and you will fucking cherish this film for the years to come. I am willing to go as far as to say that The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre: The Beginning might be the best horror film of 2006. So don't wait any longer, buy this DVD right now, just make sure you get the
Unrated version, because it ain't horror if it's cut.
has decided to re-enlist so he can join his newly-drafted little brother Dean (Taylor Handley). As the two brothers take one last road trip though
Texas with their girlfriends Chrissie (Jordana Brewster) and Bailey (Diora Baird), they run into a bit of trouble when a biker (Emily Kaye) decides to
leave her gang to rob the four a few miles up from the gas station. Eric reaches for his handgun in the glove department while driving the Jeep, not
aware of a cow passing on the road ahead of them. He plows right into the beast splattering its guts all over as the Jeep overturns and crashes.
The biker beings to take advantage of the wounded and dazed teenagers, holding Eric at gun point with a double barrel shotgun and demanding
cash. This is where Sheriff Hoyt (R. Lee Ermey), formally known as Charlie Hewitt, Jr, arrives on the scene to save the day...well, not exactly! He
blows a hole in the biker within seconds of arriving at the accident and then takes Eric, Dean and Bailey back to his mamma's house so Tommy
Hewitt (Andrew Bryniarski) can strip their flesh right down to the bone with his chainsaw. Meanwhile, Eric's girlfriend Chrissie, who was thrown
from the Jeep in the collision, tries to save the day by getting the biker's boyfriend to help her out. Unfortunately, Sheriff Hoyt's Uncle Monty
(Terrence Evans) gets shot in the leg by the mad biker demanding to know where his girlfriend is and later has to get his legs amputated by
Leatherface's chainsaw. To this day, the Hewitt family is well-known for being the most sadistic, cannibalistic, inbred and psychopathic family in
Texas. And you are about to witness the beginning of it all and how Tommy Hewitt became Leatherface...
I am a huge fan of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), which I first saw when I was about ten years old. Seeing a guy running
after hippie teenage women with a chainsaw, hanging them up on meat hooks and clubbing their boyfriends with a sledgehammer definitely
warped my little mind in a good way. I finally found another horror icon other than Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees or good old Freddy Kruger and
his name was Leatherface. A retarded, deformed, psychopathic and sadistic killer who had the brain power of a seven year old child but the
strength of ten men. Then, in 2003, they decided to remake Tobe Hooper's pride and joy. I personally hated this idea, because they were going to
fuck with the original, which to this day never needed a touch up. Director Marcus Nispel remade Tobe Hooper's classic The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre (1974) and fucked it up worse than any other director could have. I mean, what was the guy thinking when he wrote the script? He
introduced so many new characters, which seemed unnecessary, but we still got to see Leatherface tearing it up again with his chainsaw. Then in
2006, director Jonathan Liebesman decided to bring us a prequel to Marcus Nispel's remake instead of using Tobe Hooper's original film. I have to
hand it to Liebesman, though. This guy made a fucking awesome film. Shit, the guy should of directed Nispel's film also, that's how much I enjoyed
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning shows us how and why Tommy aka Leatherface and the Hewitt family became such violent and
sadistic killers. Tommy's mother Sloane (L.A. Calkins) gave birth to him in the slaughterhouse and he then was thrown in the dumpster by Ed (Tim
De Zarn), the owner of the slaughterhouse. Luda Mae Hewitt (Marietta Marich) finds the deformed infant as she is scavenging though the
dumpsters looking for food. She cuddles Tommy like he was her own and takes him back home where he is raised by the Hewitt family. Jumping
ahead a few decades, Tommy is a fully grown man and works in the slaughterhouse. After several years Tommy has become an expert with the
butcher's knife and knows how to strip clean the meat off a beast. That is, until the slaughterhouse is closed down and they have to sack Tommy.
The manager tells Tommy there is no more meat coming in or out of the slaughterhouse tells Tommy to go home, but Tommy doesn't listen until the
manager calls him a retard. Later that afternoon Tommy comes back to the slaughterhouse to seek revenge on Ed and takes to him with a
sledgehammer...from then on Tommy becomes Leatherface.
The acting in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning was spot on, you can't bitch or whine about anything. Actor R. Lee Ermey who plays
Sheriff Hoyt definitely stole the spotlight in this film. He definitely knows how to get your attention in any film. He is demanding, pissed off and
doesn't take shit from anybody, and I wouldn't be surprised if he is like this in real life. Another actor I have to praise is the beautiful Jordana
Brewster, who you probably remember from films like The Faculty or The Fast and the Furious. In this film she kinda reminds me of Eliza Dushku
from Wrong Turn in regards to her performance. As for Andrew Bryniarski, who reprises his role as Leatherface from Nispel's remake, he does a
remarkable job. I would even go as far to say that he was nearly as good as Gunnar Hansen (who played Leatherface in Hooper's original). Wait
and see for yourself and you'll know what I am talking about.
The gore and blood levels are off the charts! The special effects, done by KNB EFX Group, are extremely sick (and I mean sick)! You will see skin
being peeled off, legs and arms amputated by chainsaws, dead bodies hanging from the ceilings, Leatherface ramming his handy chainsaw into
people's guts, chests, and stomachs, shotgun scenes, bear trap scenes, torture scenes...man, you name it and it will appear in this film.
Gorehounds are going to love the kill and torture scenes in this film, and you even get to see Leatherface's first face he skins and uses as a mask.
I can't recommend this DVD enough, guys. It has everything a horror fan wants and if you somehow enjoyed the Nispel remake, this film is far
more enjoyable to watch and you will fucking cherish this film for the years to come. I am willing to go as far as to say that The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre: The Beginning might be the best horror film of 2006. So don't wait any longer, buy this DVD right now, just make sure you get the
Unrated version, because it ain't horror if it's cut.
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