Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)

A young woman travels to Texas to collect an inheritance; little does she know that an encounter with a chainsaw-wielding killer is part of the reward.

Director:

John Luessenhop

Writers:

Adam Marcus (screenplay), Debra Sullivan (screenplay)

Stars:

Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood

2 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Alexandra Daddario	...	Heather Miller
Dan Yeager	...	Leatherface
Trey Songz	...	Ryan (as Tremaine 'Trey Songz' Neverson)
Scott Eastwood	...	Carl
Tania Raymonde	...	Nikki
Shaun Sipos	...	Darryl
Keram Malicki-Sánchez	...	Kenny
James MacDonald	...	Officer Marvin
Thom Barry	...	Sheriff Hooper
Paul Rae	...	Burt Hartman
Richard Riehle	...	Farnsworth
Bill Moseley	...	Drayton Sawyer
Gunnar Hansen	...	Boss Sawyer / Leatherface (archive footage)
David Born	...	Gavin Miller
Sue Rock	...	Arlene Miller

Storyline

After the first massacre in 1974, the townspeople suspected that the Sawyer family were responsible. A vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer house, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family. Decades later, a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her grandmother. She decides to bring her friends along on the road trip to investigate her inheritance. On arrival, she discovers she has inherited a mansion, but is yet to uncover the terrors that lurk in the basement underneath it.

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Plot Keywords:

chainsaw | halloween | texas | mansion | massacre | 

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Taglines:

Evil wears many faces.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong grisly violence and language throughout

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official Facebook [Brazil]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 January 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

Texas Chainsaw

Filming Locations:

Cargill Park-7700 Lotus Lane, Shreveport, Lousiana, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$21,744,470 (USA) (4 January 2013)

Gross:

$34,334,256 (USA) (22 February 2013)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lionsgate, Millennium Films, Mainline Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In 2007, Platinum Dunes announced they were abandoning the series following The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. In 2009, Twisted Pictures negotiated a multi-picture deal with Bob Kuhn and Kim Henkel, who own the rights to the series.

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Goofs

In the Sawyer family police files that Heather goes through at the station, they state that Drayton Sawyer is the father of Loretta, Heather's mother, making him Heather's grandfather and making his son Leatherface her uncle, not her cousin, as he is repeatedly called in the movie.

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Quotes

Nikki: [cries] The hell was that? What was? Wait where's Kenny?
Heather Miller: He's dead, he's fucking dead!
Nikki: [cries] What!

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Crazy Credits

After all the end credits there is one additional scene.

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Connections

Referenced in The Cinema Snob: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (2015)

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Soundtracks

Move
Written by Darryl Pittman
Performed by DR Period

User Reviews

So Disappointed.

Being the extremely huge Leatherface fan that I am, I have been looking forward to seeing this movie since the first posters came out. Literally have been counting down the days. I rushed to the theater on opening night super excited because the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D facebook page shared a lot of information about the making of the movie and I expected it to be the best one yet. HOWEVER....

I was so unbelievably disappointed in this movie it sickens me.

If someone didn't know anything about the previous TCM movies, they would think this was just your everyday horny teenager horror movie. I believed that the TCM movies were always better than that, but now my opinion has changed.

The movie started out good, and had some good background information to later understand the present scenes. However, once we met the main characters of the movie it was obvious that it wasn't going to meet my expectations. And the fact that Trey Sonz was in this movie(even though his acting skills WERE better than I expected) totally ruined it for me. Also the makers of the movie made a huge error with the the main character's age (should be at least 40.) The killings were not that severe, the only 3D parts were with the chainsaw (which didn't even happen that much), and Leatherface was turned into this sweet character that you began to feel bad for. And don't even get me started on how Heather was acting at the end of the movie.

The whole story line was completely changed. During the first half of the movie it is just like the other TCM movies, but the last half turns into some weird love/family reuniting story which I absolutely hated. Plus the other movies really portrayed the fact that the movie was based off a true story. This new TCM makes it seem more like a fantasy horror movie. It's all just very confusing and makes me feel like a woman with a glass of wine wrote the story line.

See for yourself if you like but if you are a die hard TCM fan like I WAS, then I highly expect you to be disappointed and don't spend money on it. Thank god I got movie theater gift cards for Christmas...