Title: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D
Year: 2013
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director: John Luessenhop
Writer: Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan and Kristen Elms (written by), Stephen Susco, Adam Marcus and Debra Sullivan (story)
Runtime: 92min
Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Trey Songz, Scott Eastwood, Tania Raymonde, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Shaun Sipos, James MacDonald, Thom Barry, Paul Rae, David Born
Produc.: Leatherface Productions, Lionsgate, Mainline Pictures, Millennium Films, Nu Image Films, Twisted Chainsaw Pictures
Budget: $ 20 million approx.
In Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, Heather (Alexandra Daddario) is a young woman who travels with her friends to receive an inheritance. What will allow her to know her past, while facing a masked man with a chainsaw.
Long before the world of entertainment delighted us with Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), or Final Destination (2000), the grave robber Ed Gein had already inspired a Tobe Hooper, who in his native Austin would direct a gruesome film about cannibals.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre would become an early example of how a trip on a van could go bad. Its scenes of dismemberment, plus the figure of Leatherface would cause sensation.
After very good results, the man-eaters would appear another five more times. In all of them, on the other hand, keeping the concept of the kids who, for one reason or another, were captured by these madmen.
As for opinions, none of the sequels would get the reception of the original, to the point that, for example, the fourth Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994) would be shattered.
As for me, I would be lying if I said that I did not enjoy them all, and that none of them I found, like others, to be a waste. Only now, with the most recent one, is that its argument has not been to my liking.
Seven years after his last appearance, to continue to get a profit out of Leatherface would change the rules of the game. The events now, would happened in the new century, it would be used the third dimension, and for the first time there would be a blood link between the murderer and a victim, which I intend to address here. Of the 3D, on the other hand, I will not speak, having seen the movie in its home format and without this possibility.
Archive footage from the seventies success is what opens this chapter, to explain the reason for what follows.
A group of angry Texans opens fire against the Sawyers, for then burning them alive in a fire. Paying good attention one should notice that this does not belong to what was shot by Hooper, but to a rather much more recent material.
Ended the attack and with the place burn to its ashes, Gavin Miller (David Born) is who finds the smallest one of the Sawyers. A baby girl, that he grabs from her dying mother´s arms, to keep her and raise her with his wife.
Sometime later, Heather is with his boyfriend Ryan (Trey Songz) when the bell rings. Soon after, she argues with her parents, when she learns that she is adopted. This, after knowing that a grandmother of hers, of whose existence she did not even know about, has just died and left her an inheritance. In this way, from her past there are things that she does not know, and perhaps going with her boyfriend and friends, to see the house, she finds about it.
For having lasted, with its sequels, nearly four decades, it is understood that the new screenwriters wanted to bring something different. However, both in the small details and globally, the image they end up giving to us, is of very unserious writers. If not, how do they justify that a girl let at his place and by himself, a complete stranger? Or that, wandering around the place she finds her dead grandmother in a chair. Could they contact her, but not, bury the old woman, having she got a private cemetery?
Unlike the other installments, the space devoted to the death of the youngsters is very small, showing that their roles are secondary.
Burt Hartman (present, the day of the fire) discovers that apart from the grandmother, also still lives Leatherface, who survived.
The following reveals a major spoiler that many may prefer not to read.
My rating: 2/10
Hartman and Sheriff Hooper (Thom Barry) discuss in an office, while in another room of the headquarters, Heather investigates archived data. There she discovers her real family and what happened to them. The thing is that that masked boy is actually her cousin, and from one moment to another she understands to have lived in a delusion.
Heather, however, could not have foreseen that Hartman was to project on her that hatred felt toward her family, as to want to kill her. For his psychotic purpose (which includes both cousins), is his son Carl (Scott Eastwood), the commissioner, who helps him.
In a twisted ending, where the roles of good and bad are exchanged, Heather and Leatherface end up protecting each other of an unscrupulous Hartman.
Then, once in the house, both try to respect each other’s spaces. It seems like if Heather had forgotten the murders he committed, and instead prefer, from now on, to let his relative alone.
All that, once had meant The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is lost in a movie that forgets the essence of this saga, to become a story of revenge, and feelings of understanding and belonging, by a character horribly built. Otherwise, it never should have ended with that shot, where both seem to come to an agreement of coexistence.
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