Review Tuesday: Texas Chainsaw Massacre [2022]

 

Texas

Chainsaw

Massacre

[2022] 

When developers invest in a depressed Texas ghost town, they had no idea that a mass murderer was one of the last occupants.  

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise is one of my wife's favorites in the horror genre. She likes to see anything with Leatherface in it. So, out from nowhere, came a new installment that no one asked for from Netflix. Well, we're on the verge of scare season, so let's see how horrible this thing is. 

 

The engineers of a real estate deal in a dusty and forgotten Texas town show up to inspect the area. Of course they are arrogant and rude city slickers and find an old and ill woman and her gigantic son still living in one of the buildings. What is the natural thing to do? Of course, it's violently through them out. This scene causes the old lady to have a heart attack and an ambulance comes to take the woman and her son to the nearest hospital. Unfortunately, the woman passes away en route, and she happens to be the only person who can keep her son, who happens to be Leatherface, on a leash. The moment she dies he turns back to his murderous ways. 

 

In the meantime, a BUS load of potential investors in the town arrived for various auctions. 

 

The rest of the movie is Leatherface killing everyone in town. 

The twist for a successful horror movie, especially one in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, is that innocent people stumble across this murderous family and are brutally killed for absolutely no reason. In THIS movie, it starts off with some obnoxious douche and his friends tossing an elderly woman and her son out of THEIR home. So, you don't feel bad when, pretty much, ANYONE gets killed because they were all a bunch of toxic jerks.

 

In conclusion, this movie was pretty well-polished and had really good special effects. The plot made sense, but the characters were all loathsome and really got what they deserved. So, it didn't have that sympathy aspect that you should usually feel when viewing a horror film. As a whole, I would call it okay, but not even up to the typically low horror standard.   

 

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