Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780780647190 Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Special Edition, NTSC ISBN: 078064719X Label: New Line Home Video Manufacturer: New Line Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 30, 2004 Running Time: 98 minutes Sales Rank: 26783 Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 17, 2003
Product Description: Inspired by a true story & the classic 1974 film. A group of teenagers take a detour from a road trip & what happens next is beyond anyone darkest fears & raw nightmares. For the lucky ones it is the end of the road. Meet your fear face to face with this years most hardcore & terrifying film. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006 Starring: Andrew Bryniarski Jonathan Tucker Run time: 98 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com: The 2003 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre adheres to the pure and simple slasher movie formula: Introduce a gaggle of sexy young people, make vague gestures to distinguish them--Jessica Biel (Summer Catch) wants to get married and doesn't like pot, so she's our moral compass--then start hacking them to pieces one by one. The visual palette includes grimy crucified dolls, fly-specked pig carcasses, body parts floating in murky jars, a tobacco-chewing redneck sheriff, and many slender beams of sunlight cutting through dank, dusty interiors. The camera lovingly photographs Biel's tank-topped bosom and sculpted abs as she's running in terror from a bloated, chainsaw-wielding, human-skin-wearing maniac. This remake lacks the macabre comedy of the original; it's all about the nauseating sensation of waiting for something to jump out of the dark. Also featuring Eric Balfour (Six Feet Under) and R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket, Mail Call). --Bret Fetzer
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Rating: - Tense and Foreboding - It's the Atmosphere that Makes this Remake
This remake of TCM doesn't really add anything new to the horror genre, nor is it necessarily an improvement when compared with the original, but when viewed without any expectations it makes for a solid thriller.
The formula is pretty standard: Pretty kids get shredded in creative ways by a gruesome killer. What I liked most about this film is the well crafted atmosphere of isolation and decrepitude. The environs of the forgotten little southern town where all this takes place are creepy yet believable, albeit in a "all southerners are inbred crazies" sort of way.
The film contains enough gore but doesn't go over-the-top, and it's clever enough to keep leatherface at least partially concealed for the majority of the film. They also made the good call of casting Jessica Biel, who's tight fitting white tee is frequently wet.
The DVD has limited extras - Some TV spots and trailers ... Read More
Rating: - "...I don't know about you guys, but I happen to like my teeth right where they are..."
Introduction: For starters, I never really planned on watching anything related to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, mostly because it reaches outside the type horror films that I can stand to watch (and no, I'm not talking teen-slasher flicks). Excessive amounts of blood and gore have never been a selling point nor a entertainment factor for me, yet the curiosity of wanting to see what the hub-bub about this film was about (and why it was considered so excellent among Horror aficionados) drew me toward the film regardless. That and I learned Mike Vogel was in it. That aside, I went into watching this film with no knowledge of the prior films before it, beyond what I've seen on television during the Halloween season and I'm happy to say that I was not disappointed. The Michael Bay produced remake of TTCMR lives up to praise and becomes far more than just another slash-happy gore fest of a film.
Rating: - Great edition to the series
i personally dont look at this movie as being a remake. because if youve seen all of these chainsaw movies youll know they often times use a different sick and demented family of cannibals to tell the same basic story of some unlucky people getting stranded or whatever in the middle of nowhere and crossing paths with these familys. then it becomes a disturbing terror fest of screams blood and gore while they try to escape. so basically they all could be called remakes in a way with the exception of part 2 which kinda carries over from the original with some of the same family members and the beginning which is a prequel to the remake obviously with the same family members. but anyway i personally love this one. in fact i love every chainsaw movie so far with part 3 being my favorite. i love how they portray these crazy familys. and with that being said r lee ermys character sheriff hoyt just rocks hes so sick but so funny ... Read More
Rating: - As ineffective as it is unnecessary
I couldn't agree more with the reviewer who stated "If ain't broke, don't fix it". It's been about five years now since the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake surfaced, and there are many mixed opinions of it. Enough time has passed to analyze the movie, and I honestly feel that the original has managed to age better over 35 years than this one has over a mere 5 years. However, this is hardly surprising when dealing with a film that's as indicative of its time as TCM 2003.
The basic frame work of the story we witnessed in the original is in tact, but a lot of the details were changed. The film begins with five young adults on a roadtrip across rural Texas set to the tune "Sweet Home Alabama" of course to establish that we are in the 70's. After picking up a hitchhiker who promptly takes her own life in the backseat, the youths are put in a situation that calls for desperate help. However the only aid they can hope ... Read More
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