Written by: Chris Thomas Devlin, Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues.
Directed by: David Blue Garcia
Starring: Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham, Jacob Latimore, and many other cast members who are not main castings.
After 48 years of hiding, Leatherface (Burnham) resurfaces and terrorizes a group of young people who enter his town in Texas and disrupt his shielded world within a remote Texas town.
I was not amused or entertained by this film, which explains why its initial cinema release was heavily slated in 2021 and was subsequently sold to Netflix, where it debuted in February 2022.
I felt that this was way too predictable for a film and fell short of the original in terms of horror. There were scenes of blood and gore, but that was all there was to initially try to keep me watching, which I never do well with a lot of blood or gore. However, as this was the only decent aspect of the film’s plot, I had to finish it.
The video shots within this film were excellent, featuring some great location work and music. Still, the rest was overkill, which brings me back to the reason it failed during the preview screenings before it was dropped from cinema release.
I’m trying to find more positives to say about this film, but I’m struggling. The characters were poorly developed and became irritating after a short while. Leatherface seemed all over the place, and the killings were predictably gruesome – even up to the very end.
It is a shame, as this didn’t match up to the original at all and seemed like a feeble attempt to bring this into the 21st century and make it a horror, which, unfortunately, didn’t happen.
I rate this film 1 star
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