new Texas Chainsaw Massacer trailer up

[Guest Ravenbomb]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/thet...ainsawmassacre/

[Guest justsoyouknow]

That trailer makes this movie look like shit.

 

Just saying.

[Guest eiker_ir]

already posted in the other thread, decent trailer imo

[Guest Downhome]

I think that looks pretty damn cool myself.

[Guest NoCalMike]

Oh how I miss the LanLine from my last job. At home my 56k will choke on these kinds of downloads

[Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa]

That look to be pretty different from the original TCM. Odd.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Looks like it will be good, can't wait.

 

Trailer was decent, but what the hell was up with that music in the beginning...

[Guest godthedog]

"song to the siren" by this mortal coil.

 

david lynch used it for the sex scene in the desert in 'lost highway'.

 

GREAT GREAT GREAT song, but it has absolutely no place in a trailer for 'the texas chainsaw massacre'. TCM is supposed to be rough and grimy and in-your-face, "song to the siren" is way too spacy & fluid. if they wanted soft music, they could've at least picked something with an acoustic guitar.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

How did they defeat Leatherface in the first one and in part 3 and 4?

 

I don't remember part 1 much and I liked part 2 alot . Yes, I want to be spoiled.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

Spoiler (Highlight to Read):

They didn't beat him in part 1 or 4, the Surviving Girl just got away. In part three the girl hit him with a rock

[SpikeFayeJettEdBebop 0]

Well I got 56k...Ill tell ya my thoughts in a week or two.....

[Lil' Bitch 0]

The remake looks promising although, I couldn't stand watching the rest of the original after what happened with that girl and the meathook. >_<

[Guest Lethargic]

"song to the siren" by this mortal coil.

 

david lynch used it for the sex scene in the desert in 'lost highway'.

 

GREAT GREAT GREAT song, but it has absolutely no place in a trailer for 'the texas chainsaw massacre'. TCM is supposed to be rough and grimy and in-your-face, "song to the siren" is way too spacy & fluid. if they wanted soft music, they could've at least picked something with an acoustic guitar.

I thought that was the point of it, it has no place in TCM. It seemed like they wanted people to be seating in the theater, have this start and have everybody wondering what the hell it is. To fool people into not catching on that it's TCM right away so when that chainsaw busts through everybody goes ape shit. That's what I got out of it anyway.

[JasonX 0]

Spoiler (Highlight to Read):

They didn't beat him in part 1 or 4, the Surviving Girl just got away. In part three the girl hit him with a rock

Actually in part three Leatherface fall into the swamps after fighting the token black guy and supposedly is torn apart by alligators but is shown to be alive when the girl and the black guy escape at the very end...

[Guest Prototype450]

Um I think they changed the names of some of the characters in the Remake. I swear the girl in the first one and her brother were Sally and Franklin. Can some one set me straight on this?

[Guest Lethargic]

Um I think they changed the names of some of the characters in the Remake. I swear the girl in the first one and her brother were Sally and Franklin. Can some one set me straight on this?

That's because it's not really a remake. It takes up right after the first one ends. The girl they pick up is supposed to be the girl who survived the first movie. I believe the movie takes place one day after the first movie.

[Guest Prototype450]

Um I think they changed the names of some of the characters in the Remake.  I swear the girl in the first one and her brother were Sally and Franklin. Can some one set me straight on this?

That's because it's not really a remake. It takes up right after the first one ends. The girl they pick up is supposed to be the girl who survived the first movie. I believe the movie takes place one day after the first movie.

ah so it's tcm 1.5 but wait didn't that girl who survived the first one jump in the back of a truck?

[Guest Lethargic]

Um I think they changed the names of some of the characters in the Remake.  I swear the girl in the first one and her brother were Sally and Franklin. Can some one set me straight on this?

That's because it's not really a remake. It takes up right after the first one ends. The girl they pick up is supposed to be the girl who survived the first movie. I believe the movie takes place one day after the first movie.

ah so it's tcm 1.5 but wait didn't that girl who survived the first one jump in the back of a truck?

Maybe she fell out? haha

[Guest Downhome]

I took it as an entirely new movie, with a "new girl" who just escaped from the house, a story that we have yet to hear about.

[Guest Prototype450]

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[Guest mach7]

I took it as an entirely new movie, with a "new girl" who just escaped from the house, a story that we have yet to hear about.

Which == lame, IMO. What was so bad about the original story that it had to be changed to this crap?

[Guest dpac]

I am excited to see it, but I dont think it will be nearly as good as the original. The new one will be highly produced which will take away the realism for me.

[Guest Lethargic]

Here's the first review I've seen, contains no spoilers.....

 

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE – Test Screening (d. Marcus Nispel, w. Scott Kosar, based on the script by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper)

 

In Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original, it was the gradual build from the moment when the crazed hitchhiker, played memorably by Ed Neal, snatches away Franklin’s knife and proceeds to carve open his own hand, to his sudden, graphic assault on the whiney invalid (according to Joe Bob Briggs, “one of the most despicable handicapped people in film history) with a straight razor. It was a jarring harbinger of the many horrors still to come, but what made it all the more disconcerting was the casual manner in which they all brushed it off within a few minutes of screen time. They seemed to be shuffling toward their slaughter with all the doomed resignation of some hapless draftees heading off to Vietnam.

 

Marcus Nispel, on the other hand, doesn’t believe in such pussy half-measures, and he sure as shit couldn’t care less about subtext. After a moody black-and-white prologue (replete with narration from John Larroquette, and, yes, there are more easter eggs like this for rabid fans), the first-time feature filmmaker, and veteran of countless music videos and commercials, shoves us into the sweaty confines of a vaguely familiar (though not the same) van with another batch of dim twentysomethings, cutting rapidly from one extreme close-up to another, and ratcheting up the discomfort level until the gang nearly runs over a young woman dazedly roaming the roadside. Though these kids would rather be merrily on their way, especially since they’re hauling several pounds of marijuana smuggled up from Mexico, they decide to be good Samaritans and take the girl to the nearest hospital. What happens next is…. well….

 

Let’s just say that Franklin got off really fucking easy.

 

As the maiden filmic voyage launched from Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2003 is a, surprise, visually stunning remake of a picture many believe to be perfect in its first incarnation. This (correct) belief has, in turn, ignited a rather vocal, if misguided, resistance to the very idea of a second go-round, but what Nispel and writer Scott Kosar have done is to suggest that what we saw initially was the movie version of the true story. In other words, as the former NIGHT COURT star informs us at the outset, the actual investigation has been sealed for thirty years, so we’re only now getting the factual account of what really occurred on August 18, 1973.

 

Whatever. All that matters is that Nispel’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE is a relentlessly transgressive horror film – an endurance test of often unbearably shocking imagery that hasn’t the patience to merely give the audience nightmares. It wants the instant gratification of scarring the audience’s consciousness right there in the theater. There are depraved minds at work here, but they’re firing with an enjoyable Grand Guignol relish that ultimately proves irresistible once the fright show kicks into gear around the half-hour mark with the appearance of Leatherface (which, interestingly enough, is about the same time he turns up in the original).

 

Let’s talk about Leatherface. Played by the hulking Andrew Bryniarski (best known the world over as Zangief in Steven E. de Souza’s powerful STREET FIGHTER), he doesn’t quite capture the sporadically endearing pathos of Gunnar Hansen’s skin flaying psychopath, but he’s plenty fearsome in his own right. As in the first film, Leatherface’s best moments come when he’s charging in full-speed pursuit of his prey. There’s an intangible and tireless rage at work within the shattered mind of this maniac (based more closely on Ed Gein this time out), but rather than look for answers as to what contributed to his madness, the filmmakers just put the sick bastard to work sawing the hell out of any youngster fool enough to wander into his dilapidated house.

 

Surprisingly, though, it’s not Leatherface who leaves the most indelible impact, but R. Lee Ermey as the corrupt-and-then-some Sheriff Hoyt. A symbol of vulgar, hard case authority ever since he threatened to skull fuck Vincent D’Onofrio in FULL METAL JACKET, Ermey’s a sleazy delight here. And he astoundingly equals the Kubrick film’s randiness with some brutally inappropriate (and, I’m assuming, improvised) dialogue that further cements his status as one of the great sick fucks in cinema history. Whether cracking wise with some necrophilia gags in the presence of a female corpse, or simply lingering over Daniel Pearl’s low-angle compositions, showing off a pair of hideously bushy eyebrows, Ermey manages to convey a more palpable sense of true menace than a chainsaw-wielding nutcase clothed in someone else’s skin. He’s triumphantly offensive.

 

Charged with the rough task of courting audience sympathy despite their aggressive, danger seeking stupidity, the kids are *just* alright, with Jessica Biel turning in the best performance of the bunch as Erin (though the picture’s costumers courteously saw to it that she’s frequently upstaged by her breasts). This time, however, their vacuous personalities aren’t really playing into any grander social commentary, which may or may not be refreshing depending on your expectations for this film.

 

Happily, the film is pretty up-front about its brazen, crowd-pleasing (or is that “queasy-ing”) intentions early on. Indeed, what Nispel’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE doesn’t have in nuanced subtext, it more than makes up for in sheer, unrelenting terror. If it feels like I’ve barely scratched the surface in terms of plot detail, it’s because I firmly believe this is a film that simply needs to be experienced. Spoilers are death for something as viscerally unsettling as this. Best to just (literally) strap yourself into a theater seat come October 17th, pin your eyes open, and let the film work you over as it takes a Stihl to the outer limits of basic human decency.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

I didn't like the trailer at all...it looked way too polished and slck, which is the main problem I had with Leatherface: TCM III. It also seemed to me like it was trying to be "hip", and TCM's nowhere near that, it's gritty gritty gritty. But I don't think there's any way I can ever come around on this one so I'll get off it.

 

What's the deal with the storyline though? If this is a "TCM 1.5" (which it seems to be with them picking up a blonde, distressed woman), then it ruins the ending of the first, but I seemed to notice elements of a "proper family" a la Leatherface: TCM III rather than the original's "family" which is, well, anything but proper . And then that review talks about spoilers...the original's simplicity is part of what makes it work; there's only one SHOCKING SWERVE~! in the whole film. Does that mean this one is ripe with character turns and plot twists?

[Guest Lethargic]

And then that review talks about spoilers...the original's simplicity is part of what makes it work; there's only one SHOCKING SWERVE~! in the whole film. Does that mean this one is ripe with character turns and plot twists?

I took it to mean that he didn't want to describe the death scenes and thinks like that, not plot twists.

[Guest Prototype450]

Please Lethargic describe the death scenes, I hear they are quite good.

[Guest Lethargic]

Please Lethargic describe the death scenes, I hear they are quite good.

I'd have to see them first.

[Guest Insane Bump Machine]

The review makes it sound awesome, but one thing makes me question the reviewer's credibility:

 

Andrew Bryniarski (best known the world over as Zangief in Steven E. de Souza’s powerful STREET FIGHTER)

 

What the hell? Street Fighter sucked ass. One of the worst films I have ever seen.

[Guest Lethargic]

The review makes it sound awesome, but one thing makes me question the reviewer's credibility:

 

Andrew Bryniarski (best known the world over as Zangief in Steven E. de Souza’s powerful STREET FIGHTER)

 

What the hell? Street Fighter sucked ass. One of the worst films I have ever seen.

It's called sarcasm.

[Guest Insane Bump Machine]

It's called sarcasm.

I sure hope so.