![]() ![]() I wasn't too enamored with it when I first saw it and even now, I'm not too sure about it. And I was also in college at that point, having get up at the crack of dawn everyday and drive an hour to Chattanooga to go to school so I doubt I would have had time or had been in the mood to go see it anyway.) I eventually saw it on DVD the following February or so. So, I couldn't go myself and I couldn't find anybody who would have taken me to see the film either. (The reasons for that are, even though I was 19 at that time, I still couldn't drive and I had no official ID on me either, which I would have needed because I've always looked much younger than I really am. In any case, I didn't see the movie when it was released in theaters in 2006. Maybe it's my fault for giving myself too lofty expectations for the film when I heard it was going to be a prequel about the Hewitt family but that's just what I thought it would be. I wasn't expecting the entire film to dwell on it for reasons that I've already stated above. I was expecting to see how the family killed their first victims but I figured that would be the last act. This sounded like they were just rehashing the same basic story that had been done in all but one of the films in the franchise (that different one being the second one that Tobe Hooper did). I thought this movie was going to dwell solely on the family, how they came about through the years, how Thomas Hewitt became the sadistic monster he was in the remake and, ultimately, how he became Leatherface. And I also wasn't too keen on the plot either, about another group of kids being captured, tortured, and killed by the family. By this point, The Exorcist: The Beginning had been released and when I read that title, I was just like, "Really? That's the only title that you can come up with for prequels nowadays?" It felt very unoriginal to me. One was the actual title: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. However, as the film was actually being made, I found out some things about it that, while I wouldn't say they completely destroyed my interest in the film, I did them questionable. Sequels, yes, like The Fly II (although that's the only one I can think of that existed at that time), but never prequels. So, I felt that this would be very interesting indeed. Also, this would make another first: Not only had I never heard of a contemporary horror movie like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre being remade but I most certainly had never come across a prequel to a remake. While most are opposed to prequels, I feel that prequels can be good if the story is told well and I thought that this story could make for an interesting movie. ![]() ![]() They instead decided to go back and tell the story of how the Hewitt family and Leatherface came to be. And it wasn't too long before I found out how they were going to continue the story: they weren't. ![]() I was a bit curious how they would continue the story, though, since the ending of the remake felt pretty final: Leatherface's right arm was cut off and he hadn't been seen since 1973, Sheriff Hoyt was dead, Erin warned the police and the house had been raided, and the rest of the family, more than likely, had either all been arrested or had gone into exile and, with the police combing the countryside for them, probably hadn't survived. I really, really liked the remake, as you undoubtedly if you've read my review of it, and whenever I really enjoy a movie, save for a few exceptions, I always welcome any sort of second chapter to it. Knowing how eager studios are to capitalize on the success of a particular movie, I knew it wouldn't be long before we saw another film in the continuity established by the remake. Even though it wasn't that well-liked by most mainstream critics, most horror fans at the time seemed to really enjoy it and, more importantly, it made a ton of money. I knew there was going to be a follow-up to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre '03. ![]()
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