Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D

[Li H'Sen Chang]

If anyone seen this yet please let me know if you like it I was going see it last weekend but never had time to get in there.

[Murfreesboro]

I haven't seen it, but I believe I heard that it was #1 at the box office last weekend. I guess folks are tired of Christmas.

[Li H'Sen Chang]

I read mostly negative about it but to me Leatherface and Chainsaw MASSACRE is one of the all time greats.

[Morticia]

I prefer the original so I won't be bothering.

[Murfreesboro]

I'm not generally into slasher movies. I do like the original Halloween, but that is sort of the exception for me. I prefer eerie movies, ghost stories and the supernatural and what-not.

[Rising Dead Man]

The main character in the movie was supposed to be a baby around the time of the original massacre, and looks around 20 in the modern day. Besides that empty headed flaw I had a great time with 3D saws and gore in my face and seeing the main character's relationship with Leatherface in the end.

[Pumpkin_Man]

The original was okay, but I was never a big fan of any of the "Texas Chainsaw Massechre" sequels.

Mike

[Rising Dead Man]

Oh man I love Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Just everything in it is awesome and hilarious!

[Pumpkin_Man]

For me, I'm more of a classic monster fan. I would rather see a well made, well written vampire, wearwolf, haunted house, witch or ghost story then some pervert with a chain saw cutting up young girls for kicks. I did get into the original "Texas Chainsaw Massechre" when it was re released to theatres in the early 80s, but all in all, I am more of a classic monster person then I am a shasher person. I will say, however, that there were some good slasher stories. I enjoyed the Freddy Krueger flicks. I also enjoyed the Jason Vorheese and Halloween movies as well, but they had a supernatural element to it.

I HATED the "Hostel" movies. Torture porn is just not my genre.

Mike

[Murfreesboro]

I saw Hostel for sale recently and didn't buy it because you had said you didn't like it, Mike. I doubt I would, either.

I thought the concept of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise was excellent--a monster from your dreams that has the real power to kill you--but by the time I saw the original straight through, it seemed funny to me. That geyser of blood when Johnny Depp dies--come on, that's funny. Enough blood for three or four people, I'd think.

As for Halloween (the original, I mean, the only one I've ever seen)--that movie is effectively eerie and suspenseful, I think, and I like the way the main character fights for survival and wins.

[Boogeyman]

I have seen the first Hostel. It is a mean vicious movie. It also has a very obvious anti-american subtext too. The tourists they surgically tear to pieces are all Americans. It is even stated that they pay more for Americans.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Boogyman, that's part of the reason why I didn't like the "Hostel" movies. It was very anti American, and there was no real story line to it at all. The entire movie was just methods upon methods of torturing people to death. It was like watching a human demolition derby. I love demolition derbies at the race track, but not "Hostel."

Murf, I really did enjoy the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchises, mainly because in addition to good spfx, it had a great story line. A serial killer who returns from the grave after he's burned to death by the towns people. The remake was a further development of that story. We, for the first time, meed the 'flesh & blood" Freddy Krueger, and we actualy whitness the story of his demise, and how he came back from the grave to haunt the dreams of teenagers. The only thing I didn't like about the remake was the dark and brooding atmosphere through out the film. It seems that everyone in that movie had some major issue with depression. The orignal was much better in that respect, but the remake did contain a great story.

As for "Halloween," I enjoyed both versions. What I particularly liked about the remake, however, is that you met Michael Meyers before he became the killing machine that we all knew and loved. You saw the bullying he endured at the hands of his step father and school bullies. Even his older sister called him a particular name which I dare not post on this family friendly web site. It truely was a very sad story about a little boy who became a monster. You also saw the transition from an appearent weekling, to a serious, unstoppable monster who spend most of his life in an insane asylum.

Mike

[jadewik]

Will I get stoned if I mention I've never actually seen a Texas Chainsaw Massacre film? ....

I'm not a big fan of excessive gore in films, and I just can't get over the fact that the story it's "based on" is so abhorrently different from the story told in the film. The REAL story is that of Ed Gein... which was in Wisconsin, not Texas... and I believe Gein only had a lampshade and a skull-bowl in his house of horrors. He also never used a chainsaw.... etc. etc. For me, it kills the film to have it so historically inaccurate, but claim to be "based on a true story".

[Murfreesboro]

I've never seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre, either. Like you, I am not into gore-fests. They don't even really scare me that much; they just seem, IDK, prurient or something. I like suspense and eerie atmosphere, etc. Really, I like ghost stories.

[NeverMore]

Will I get stoned if I mention I've never actually seen a Texas Chainsaw Massacre film? ....

Best way to watch any movie... stoned.

Murf: have you ever seen the movie 'Ghost Story'? With Fred Astaire & John Houseman? Now there's a good old fashioned, very scary ghost story.