The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning Reviews

Movie Reviews

• Unlike Hostel or Wolf Creek, TCM:B is rank and depressing

  Review rate : D by Gregory Kirschling [Entertainment Weekly ]

• lacks tension, proper scares and sufficient characterisation

  by David Mercier [FilmJudge ]

• is little more than an uninspired rehash of its immediate precursor that's been stitched together with cheaper materials

  by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine ]

• is just another trip down a very dusty road

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]

• is gross and sadistic but never scary

  by Randy Cordova [The Arizona Republic ]

• falls somewhere between the overwrought sadism of the "Saw" series and the giddy gore-for-gore's-sake energy of "The Devil's Rejects,"

  by Peter Debruge [Variety ]

• a movie that adds a creation myth to the usual gorefest

  by Pam Grady [Reel ]

• a genuine attempt to strip the coating from the audience's nerves

  by Sam Adams [Los Angeles Times ]
• Reviewed by Tim Cogshell [Boxoffice Magazine ]

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