You know, if the producers of the Texas Chainsaw franchise had simply remade the 2013 sequel-reboot, actually set it accurately in the 90s, not spend pennies on the gore effects, gotten good actors for it, and given it a grimy look, it could've been the perfect sequel and end to Leatherface. But no, we got this.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre takes place in a small town in Texas, young hip teens are moving in to gentrify the area. But this leads to Leatherface beginning another killing spree, but this time, for revenge on those who caused his troubles.
TexasChainsaw2022 leaves much to be desired for its version of Halloween2018; a sequel that recons all other instalments out of existence. This instalment pales in comparison to Halloween2018 however. There are questions first off. So TexasChainsaw2022 takes place in modern day, in the 2020's: when Leatherface in the 70s original would have been in his 30s or 40s at least. Leatherface was big and brawny but he wasn't a bodybuilder; In the modern day, he'd also be in his 80s or 90s by now. Is Leatherface immortal? He's comes off like Jason Voorhees a lot in the movie so probably (in one scene he seems to teleport from one end of the town to the other in seconds). Other questions: how did he end up in the town in this movie, is his caretaker in this movie just his babysitter or his actual mother? Too many questions. So many things in this movie make me wish so badly that the writers and director of the 2013 sequel had actually given a f@ck.
Other than that, the hip gen z kids in this movie become very unlikeable, except from one girl, Lila, who is the closest we have to a main girl. She's fine, and (spoilers) it turns out she's the survivor of a school shooting, so I guess she's another one of those Casey from Split, Zoey from Escape Room type girls (characters who survived traumatic events etc). I did like the burly hillbilly guy Richter as well. And also like I said, its like the Halloween2018 movie; specifically, this movie brings back the character of Sally from the first movie (different actress however as Marilyn Burns, the original actress, sadly died in 2014). Nothing much to the character of Sally, even in the original movie she's just the final girl, but if this movie was going to give Sally the elderly Laurie Strode treatment and give her this decades old vendetta on Leatherface, it could have been so much better. As is, she hears he's returned, gets ready, shows up at the town, and (spoilers) dies, cheaply I might add. If you're a big fan of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, her death scene will only annoy you; not because she dies, but because of how she dies.
If you're not gonna treat these characters with respect, if you're not gonna make a good sequel-reboot, why even make it. At lease the Halloween 2018 movie knew not to sh@t on the fans. This was just a cheap movie. Really, all that the producers needed to do was remake the 2013 movie, and actually make it good.
4 out of 10.
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