Movie
description |
-Jessica
Biel
Directed
by
well-known
commercial
and
video
director
Marcus
Nispel,
and
produced
by
Michael
Bay
(ARMAGEDDON,
PEARL
HARBOR),
this
remake
begins
in
the
same
place
as
the
original.
Five
friends
are
driving
through
Texas
on
their
way
to a
concert
in
Dallas.
But
when
they
stop
to
pick
up a
hitchhiker,
their
trip
takes
a
turn
for
the
worse.
The
friends--Erin
(Jessica
Biel),
Kemper
(Eric
Balfour),
Morgan
(Jonathan
Tucker),
Pepper
(Erica
Leerhsen),
and
Andy
(Mike
Vogel)--have
no
idea
what
they're
in
for
when
they
ask
the
local
sheriff
(R.
Lee
Ermey)
for
help.
It
isn't
long
before
the
blood
begins
to
pour
and
the
notorious
chainsaw
of
the
maniacal,
murderous
Leatherface
starts
to
roar.
Although
considered
relatively
low
budget
(9.5
million)
by
2003
moviemaking
standards,
Nispel's
remake
is
worlds
away
from
the
no-budget
feel
of
Hooper's
original.
Where
that
film
left
much
of
the
actual
gore
off
camera,
Nispel
and
Bay
up
the
ante
by
showing
every
death
in
all
its
gruesome
detail
building
to a
final
act
that
is
relentless
and
terrifying.
Tobe
Hooper's
enduring
original
TEXAS
CHAINSAW
MASSACRE
appeared
like
a
nightmare
in
1974,
establishing
a
whole
new
genre
of
horror
film
and
thirty
years
later
it's
back.
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