What do these have in common ? That's right boys & girls, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Just watched the DVD last night. Fun.
The movie starts out with an interesting montage. Grainy black & white footage, the case vaults, the 1300 pieces of evidence. I particularly enjoyed the crime scene walkthrough footage(really wicked twist in the end involving this).
Basically the movie is about 5 teens who pick up a strange, rather incoherent girl along a highway. The girl, obviously overwhelmed with gratitude, spouts more incoherent garbage and promptly shoots herself in the mouth in the kids van. (Of course, the movie never explained how the hell do you stuff a .38 revolver between your legs and not have trouble walking).
The kids panic of course and they end up at some kind of farm. And of course this is where they get picked off one by one by deathmask-wearing, chainsaw wielding mad person. And the mad-persons relatives weren't a big help either.
As far as slasher flicks go, this one was not bad at all. Definitely better than "Wrong Turn", of course that movie had Eliza Dushku in it (YUMMY !!). The pacing was right and the movie never slowed down, except for the beginning part. Jesicca Biel was fair as the main character Erin, not that you need too much acting ability to scream and run around in a farm in the dark. Also nice to see Eric Balfour as Kemper in this flick (Jessie from Buffy Season 1).
The main creep factor in this movie was the lighting and the camera work, not the bad guy. I thought they showed him a little too early. I would've been better if they had kept him out of sight until at least the end of Act 2. Keeps the audience guessing. On the other had, scenes of him doing things in the basement and his interaction with the rest of his twisted household did give the Leatherface character some meat.
Overall, this movie was okay. Pretty good for a slasher flick but if you expect a gorefest, you won't find much here. They are worse (better?) flicks out there, gorewise. Just don't expect too much and don't take this movie too seriously. I've read some user comments on IMDB and thought "Dude, it's a slasher flick, not a modern reinterpretation of Hamlet". Don't take this movie seriously and enjoy it for what it is. I'd give this movie a 6.8 out of 10.
Historian's Note:- Despite the "Based on a True Story" tagline, this movie is not based on a real event. The Leatherface character was partly inspired by the serial killer Ed Gein (the hooks, the death masks). The rest of the movie is fiction. Read up on him at crime library of somewhere.
Also earlier this evening I watche Final Destination 1 & 2. Now these two movies rock. I'll write about these later.
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