I must say, there have been a share of really scary horror movies this year and really cheesy ones. The 2003 remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre definitely fits into the scary category. Many horror films attempts at scares usually come within the first 5 minutes of the film. Usually those first five minutes in those horror films are just gruesome, with gory visuals and horny teenagers "doing it". However, horror films that do not start on a gory note, such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, really succeed the most in bringing chills down your spine later on in the movie. The beginning of the the film has five friends driving from Mexico to Dallas on a lonely stretch of highway road, smoking pot and laughing about. When they stumble apon a female hitchhiker, they find out that where the hitchhiker was running away from is a deadly and horrifying clan of cannibals. Although the hitchhiker doesn't mention the family, once the hitchhiker commits suicide right in front of them, they realize that something is way wrong. What they don't know is that they have already been trapped in the hands of backwood maniacs. From then on, terror ensues. This movie is really scary. I must say, I think it's just as good (if not better) than the original. Although the style is different, the suspense and tension is still here, with all kinds of chases and jump scares. To all horror fans who want a good scare, this is one hell of a movie!
Review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
