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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Synopsis: For 14-year old Walter (Haley Joel Osment), his great unclesÕ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae (Kyra Sedgwick), in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that sheÕll come back for him, Walter doesnÕt know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine) are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash. Over one unpredictable Central Texas summer in the early 1960Õs, everything in the lives of this new family of strangers is about to change forever.
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On the afternoon of August 18th, 1973, five young people in a Volkswagen van ran out of gas on a farm road in south Texas. Four were never seen again. The next morning the one survivor, Sally Hardesty-Enright, was picked up on a roadside, bloodcaked and screaming murder.
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A prequel to the remake was announced in 2004, titled as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. The plot takes place four years before the events of this film. The film is directed by Jonathan Liebesman and was released in cinemas on October 6, 2006.
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The tough-guy attitude is as much a part of Texas as the Alamo or the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. It's an attitude -- and a self-obsession -- that stems from the nine years the state was an independent country. It ... comes from the Alamo, the losing battle in San Antonio that went on to become the battle cry for the Texas soldiers fighting the Mexican army. The defeat at the Alamo is a perfect example of Texas' insular attitude. "Texas celebrates a military disaster," says Brands. "I don't know of any other military defeat that is so celebrated."
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2004: On February 27th 2004, a team of 60 Minutes reporters ventured into the woods outside of Travis County, Texas. They went in to film a documentary about the chainsaw killings of 1973. They could not have forseen the terror that would befall them in those woods, nor would they have wanted to.
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"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a vile piece of sick crap. It is a film with literally nothing to recommend it: nothing but a hysterically paced slapdash, imbecile concoctions of cannibalism, voodoo, astrology, sundry hippie-esque cults, and unrelenting sadistic violence as extreme and hideous as a complete lack of imagination can possibly make it".
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