Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning Critic Reviews

This is not a slick, jokey horror movie in the post-"Scream" mold, but a genuine attempt to strip the coating from the audience's nerves. It's nasty and brutish, if not particularly short.Read the full review

Mindlessly repeats the archetypal "Chainsaw" scenario.Read the full review

The whole fear-of-obese-hillbillies device is starting to smell as stale as Leatherface's playroom. Does this horror trend simply reflect a national fear, as giant radioactive ants personified the Bomb in the 1950s? If so, maybe it's time for us all to go on a diet; America needs fresh fodder for its boogeymen.Read the full review

A lot more enjoyable if you can leave your cognitive skills at the door.Read the full review

Sadly, this movie is a far cry from the atmospheric, even thoughtfully crafted original, which made you truly scared for the unkempt, everyman victims. But this latest version, though just as grisly, is literally hackwork, and stars a forgettable, airbrushed cast of slaughterees.Read the full review

It's really gory and really dull. Mostly just dull.Read the full review

The new prequel isn't really a slasher movie at all. It's a mess, with too much to say, and an odd genre in which to preach.Read the full review

Unlike "Hostel" or "Wolf Creek," TCM:B is rank and depressing.Read the full review

Auds would be well advised not to attempt "Beginning" on a full stomach.Read the full review