Review Tuesday: Texas Chainsaw 3D

Who was asking for a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie? Didn't they reboot it not too long ago with Jessica Biel starring in it? Wasn't there already a pile of bad sequels? Why this? Why now? Who had the bright idea to create TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D???

A young heiress not only inherets a beautiful family estate, but also the family secrets. Can she manage to stay live to enjoy her new home?

I have to say I walked into this movie with very low expectations. In fact, I expected this to be an awful 3D slasher flick in the same vein as movies like Saw and Hostel. I was shocked to find out that this movie actually had a story and an amazing plot twist that you would never expect in a million years!

The movie starts off IMMEDIATELY after the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. It opens with the events that happened after the surviving girl got to the Police. Interestingly enough, they made a change to the movie by showing Dodge Diplomat Squad Car, clearing making the movie take place some time in the 80s. Then a mob of town folk show up and massacre the Sawyer family.

This was convenient because the heroine appears to be in her 20s.

Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario) learns that she was adopted when inheritance papers arrive. The last remaining Sawyer passed away and left the estate to Heather. With her friends she treks to the estate to check things out. That's when everything you expect from a horror movie kicks in. The hitchhiker is the first to bite it. Oddly, the nice guy goes next. The cheating boyfriend, next. The sex-pot is the last to go, in the strangest way.

Then the massive plot twist. I will not go into it because it's so unexpected (at least to me) that it made the movie entertaining for me. Couple that with a couple startlingly sexy brawds in this movie and it's suddenly very watchable. The star of the movie, Alexandra Daddario, is SO HOT that you can't take her eyes off of her. And the movie is a huge tease, they come SO CLOSE to showing her topless and it never happens.

On the bad side, the 3D wasn't necessary at all. It wasn't even noticeable through most of the flick. Of, there are also some tremendous holes in the story that will make you say WTF? But it was neat, and clean, and gory, and had a lot of eye candy. I think I want to see the Director's Cut when it becomes available.

Totally watchable. If you want to see it, go SOONER than later. It dropped from #1 to #9 in one week!

More on IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1572315/