Mark Kermode Reviews The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

[MrTomVprosser]

Was Kermode thinking of Pieces?

[Mrster]

It launched the career of Mcconaughey?

That's too bad, his first movie is easily his best. Should've been the one to launch his career and I'm sure it actually did.

[MegaFilmFanatic]

R. Lee Ermy was brilliant, but everything else about this film, was just shit. The original was amazing, but this, is just garbage.

[marijumanji]

Texas eggwhisk massacre LOL

[90norseman]

The flick Mark is trying to remember is ''Pieces'', from 1982 .

[Deavi783]

This movie is a piece of shit.

[spyrothedragon590]

the best TCM films r the original and the remake. the rest, meh...

[JLDoggard]

Kermode is totally right in that the original TCM had no blood. It was virtually all clever suggestion. Also, the most scary films are ones that explain nothing: to me the scariest film of all is Mulholland Drive. The scene in the diner. I'll say no more.

[tarongaleela]

i love mayo's bland sort of dry, uninterested humour

[clipsryan]

The remake was done very well and being a huge TCM fan, I had no problem with the remake's prequel. Both were done very well and offered information about my favorite horror villain. I'm sick of this constant bitching about films being too gratuitous and full of nothing but gore and sex when most of what horror films have always given you, is that stuff. It comes with the genre and drop the tired "they lack imagination" bullshit.

[TulseLuper]

@clipsryan Actually, the early slashers like Psycho, Halloween, Black Christmas or the original TCM had very little sex or gore. They relied on narrative tension and atmosphere. Even when good horror is gory, it's using violence as a means to an end; it's not just an excuse to show people getting sliced up. Can you honestly say that's what the remake was doing?

[clipsryan]

@TulseLuper Most people who grew up watching the originals, always say remakes aren't as good. It's because they're biased like the people who claim books are always better than their movie adaptations. Remake's have better acting and production in my opinion and should be alittle different considering it's a remake. Like song covers, they're suppose to provide the meat of the original and that's it.

[bobbydylanio]

@clipsryan Yeah, remakes always have better acting. tool.

[clipsryan]

@bobbydylanio In my opinion. shoe.

[bobbydylanio]

@clipsryan Opinions can be ignorant.

[clipsryan]

@bobbydylanio Unless I'm proven wrong, my opinions aren't ignorant.

[bobbydylanio]

@clipsryan saying all remakes have better acting seems pretty ignorant to me. nevermind

[clipsryan]

@bobbydylanio Maybe not all, but most and that's a fact. Who writes a comment then says nevermind?

[phaedruslive]

@TulseLuper lol at that guy. I mean really? Me personally im sick of base morons believeing themselves entitled to an exposition on 'you need to deal with it' I think they're convinced it paints them as some kind of hard-ass.

[Leatherbubba]

Is he talking about Pieces?

[Jcolinsol]

Texas Egg Whisk Massacre

[TenderHistoryInRust]

Just wanted to say, I dig the name - Peter Greenaway is awesome!

[jacko12345]

o i luv u mark

[psynno1]

These new directors don't understand horror. They have nothing original to say. They are not disturbing. they are sick and infantile and gratuitous.

[TheDensley7]

@psynno1 Exactly - they care about horror, but that's about it.

[psynno1]

He's so right. These remakes/sequels show how horror movies have lost their imagination and have become about cliches, style and copying other films. The makers think that a horror film should be sadistic, chasing teenagers. There is not one moment of real terror in any of these recent films to match Hooper's original. He understand the emotions and fear and allows us to experience the film this way.

[roloug95]

PIECES IT WAS PIECES

[TheDensley7]

@roloug95 Oh yeah. J.P Simon. The man who later made Slugs the movie.

[EvilgidgitReturns]

The film is terrible, well at least visually. It looks like someone pooed on the camera, threw mud on it and then smeared it all over the lens!

[purplecat1989]

@EvilgidgitReturns  lol so true.

[ellbo2]

@EvilgidgitReturns you sure it was mud?

[EvilgidgitReturns]

@ellbo2 Some likely pooed on the cameras and threw mud on them too.

[Neonman78]

What was the film Kermode was trying to recollect?

[TulseLuper]

I have no idea, sorry.

[Canadionfool2]

@TulseLuper it's called "Pieces" I believe

[djtrifecta]

@Neonman78

The "hidden chainsaw" movie was a cheesy early 80's horror flick called "Pieces"