Upon hearing about this latest TCM remake/reboot/sequel/whatever I figured that
just like all the other remakes/reboots/sequels/whatevers, that it was gonna
suck...and it did, but it wasn't quite as blasphemous towards the original as I
had feared and it was pretty goddamn funny.
The opening credits montage features some altered and out of sequence moments
from the original 1974 classic and uses them to setup a scene
immediately after the events of the first film where somehow there was
actually a bunch of people in the house besides the four that we already know
about. A lynch mob gets in a shootout with the Sawyer family and burns the
house down, killing everybody except for Leatherface who escapes and a woman and
her baby! You mean there was a baby in the house the whole time?!!!
I've been to the actual house the original was filmed in and it ain't that big,
so I don't know where all these people where hiding. Anyway, so
Leatherface disappears and one of the hillbilly lynch dudes kicks the mom to
death, steals the baby and gives it to a friend.
Fast-forward 39 years and the baby is now in her 20's and hot as hell with a
legendary ass. She receives a letter saying that she's inherited a house
from her grandmother, but that doesn't make any sense since her grandparents are
already dead. Her "parents" then confess that they're not really her
parents, so she hightails it to Texas with her idiotic friends. Once
there, they see the house is actually an awesome secluded mansion in the
woods. Naturally, it's
party-and-smoke-weed-time-while-listening-to-shitty-music time (ladies and the
drinks, ladies and the drinks, ladies and the drinks, ladies and the drinks,
ladies and the drinks, ladies and the drinks, ladies and the drinks, ladies and
the drinks, ladies and the drinks)...but hey! What's behind this
super-creepy hidden door? Why I'll be damned, that's where the old lady
was hiding Leatherface! What the fuck? That's right.
Leatherface might be 66 years-old but he's still as frisky as a puppy and ready
to get this party started! Ladies and the drinks, ladies and the drinks,
ladies and the drinks!
So for the rest of the movie, it's just Leatherface creeping around killing
people and stupid people doing stupid things. I think my favorite was the
lone cop who decides to go into the house and into the secret basement while
live streaming it. Hahahahaaaha! Another head scratching moment was
when a friend of the main girl (remember they're from outside of Texas) shoots a
shotgun at Leatherface while yelling "Welcome to Texas, motherfucker!" What does that even mean?!
TC3D was dumb as Hell, but goddamn I laughed so hard my sides where
hurting. Who writes this shit? Did they actually think they were
making a serious movie?! For a horror movie, it's garbage, but for laughs
TC3D is a classic. English language murdered, van flipping over, the
laziest Sheriff of all time (on more than one occasion he lets people commit
mass murder and he just walks away), terrible looking Leatherface masks, ladies
and the drinks, chainsaw tossing, zero nudity (which is sad since the two main
girls were beautiful), very little gore, blood all over the joint, godawful
music/sound effects, crappy looking CGI, SAW references, ladies and the drinks,
Leatherface removed of any personality and now just your standard killing
machine, ladies and the drinks, terrible dialogue, logic tossed out the window,
stupid scene after the end credits, four cameo appearances from the original
plus both Hooper and Henkel as executive producers!
Part 1 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Part 2 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
Part 3 - Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
Remake/Sequel - Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)
Reboot 1 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Reboot prequel - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Prequel - Leatherface (2017)
Direct sequel to original - Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
Monday, July 15, 2013
Sunday, July 14, 2013
DROP DEAD GORGEOUS (1999)
If you enjoy fake documentaries, then you need to watch DROP DEAD GORGEOUS. DDG is a very funny 90's fake documentary about a teenage beauty pageant in the small Jesus-lovin' town of Mount Rose, Minnesota. The film crew is there to follow some of the participants and organizers of the pageant, but they get more than they bargained for when some of the people involved start ending up dead or seriously injured in bizarre accidents. As serious as that sounds, it all comes off light-hearted thanks to the clever writing and the excellent acting by a cast that clearly gets what the filmmakers were going for.
Murder, half-melted hand fused into a beer can, tap dancing, SOYLENT GREEN humor, dead bodies, a young Amy Adams looking hot as Hell, incorrect subtitles on the DVD, tons of quotable lines, explosions, a "polyester meteor", vomiting, singing. DDG is a lot of fun...till the end when it kinds drops off for some reason, but still, even at only 85% funny it's a great film and definitely worth a watch for fans of stuff like "Reno 911" and A MIGHTY WIND.
Murder, half-melted hand fused into a beer can, tap dancing, SOYLENT GREEN humor, dead bodies, a young Amy Adams looking hot as Hell, incorrect subtitles on the DVD, tons of quotable lines, explosions, a "polyester meteor", vomiting, singing. DDG is a lot of fun...till the end when it kinds drops off for some reason, but still, even at only 85% funny it's a great film and definitely worth a watch for fans of stuff like "Reno 911" and A MIGHTY WIND.
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