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1. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE MOVIE
2. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE FULL

A bunch of teens stumble into the Hewitt’s territory and it’s gruesome lights out for them all. But their house is just as grimy as before, and the narrative as a whole is a simple retread of the original, but worse. The most “backstory” we get is a particularly gruesome kill involving Leatherface taking his first life with a chainsaw.

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE MOVIE

Granted, seeing him chewing the scenery is a good time, but the movie simply doesn’t offer any insight into the Hewitts. Lee Ermey’s performance is just as unhinged in this one as it was in the first installment. Leatherface casually murders someone well before the first act is halfway over, and R. Maybe it would show how Leatherface became a murderer. So one would guess that TCM: T he Beginning might dive into how the Hewitt family from the 2003 remake got to be so homicidal. The appeal of most prequels is to theoretically add more back story to a cast of characters or maybe give new context to the events of a previously created piece of media. The problem they have to overcome, though, is that most of the time, the viewer already knows how the story ends. I think it’s incorrect to say that good prequels don’t exist from the past storyline of The Godfather 2 to the tragedy-laden Kings of Cool by Don Winslow, there have been some good prequels in the history of art. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The BeginningĪ prequel to the 2003 remake, TCM: The Beginning is miserable and cynical from start to finish, and not just from a storytelling/tone perspective.

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE FULL

Lastly, I will be discussing full spoilers for most of these entries, so reader beware.

If you’re looking for our staff’s thoughts in TCM ’22, make sure to check out Bronson West’s review. It makes them fun to talk about despite how bad most of them are, and with the second attempt at a decades-later sequel having just dropped on Netflix, I thought that now would be a good time to rank each entry and discuss their place in the franchise. The thing is that this questionable quality comes with some caveats, as each movie typically has something that stands out or at least sets it apart from the rest. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise is a sad one, mostly because anything past the first movie (some might argue the second) is of questionable quality.