INTO THE DEAD 2 34 CHAINSAW MOVIE
That isn't the real triumph of this movie for me. So they got themselves a slicker, weirder-looking pack of hillbillies. He does, however, get too out of hand for me, and there were times when I was yelling at the kids that, whatever move they try, successful or not, they really, really needed to stop recognizing his authority as a cop. There's a great moment when Pepper, lying face down on the ground with the others on orders from Hoyt, screams "we're gonna die!" and she hasn't even laid eyes on Leatherface yet. The bullying and mind-fuckery is just the opening act of his sociopathy he's planning to eat these people. This guy is exactly the kind of character I could find unbearable, and it's a testament to the writers that he's as entertaining as he is. I also found the character Morgan's encroaching breakdown while Sherriff Hoyt was taunting him very convincing.Īnd that Sherriff Hoyt, what a bastard! He's another creation of the remake, channelling the partriarchal Cook character from the original, but this time with a badge, a gun, and a big taste for mental and physical sadism.
Right after he yells out to the unseen presence in the mill, he looks her way and she gives a small nod. I liked the interplay between Jessica Beil and her boyfriend played by Eric Balfour, since it was mostly built on an exchange of looks. I liked this batch of characters more than any of the others, including the prequel. Changing the opening hitchhiker encounter to one of the victims, and then having her blow her brains all over the van - I call that a pretty smart punch. But I think they turned a lot of the right knobs on the equalizer, and they managed to leave the suck knob pretty much alone. Squalor has been the new black for several years now.Īs that would suggest, the TCM remake is indeed a slicker, glossier version of the original. Look at any Saw poster if you're not sure what I'm talking about. Not a color exactly, but a never-ending presence of dirt and grime that's been a growing vibe in horror since David Fincher's Seven. Ignoring the others, the remake's color is squalor. The interior of that cave is bathed in orange, a perfectly lurid hue for that goof-ass late 80's movie. It ends red, with the morning sunrise and bloody Sally screaming, but it's grounded in green. I think of the first one as mostly muted green, which I see as the ambient color in the dining room and the feather-strewn parlor, also the interior of the van and the hitchhiker's shirt. The main difference I like to characterize as a change of color.
INTO THE DEAD 2 34 CHAINSAW UPDATE
So, besides making money, why update TCM? How did they do it? But it left a whiff of nostalgia for the good old days. When they tossed in a couple lines to reconcile James Bond's implicit hatred of women, it clearly needed to be done. It's easy to resent any kind of "update" on a well-liked character. I think Summerisle's tag of "meets but does not exceed expectations" puts it perfectly. However, I can't deny there is a little bit of an empty feeling left behind in the new Chainsaw's grimy wake. When you think about it, Evil Dead 2 is kinda sorta a remake of the first one. I think it's a worthy revisit to the story, and that's not such a bad thing. My answer starts by pointing out this movie has a lot going for it. The Dawn remake was great because it added a new spin to the story in a number of ways, remakes like The Omen are horrible and sully the original, American remakes of Japanese horror are clumsy and miss the point but at least the J-horror is getting noticed - but what about this one? Not good, not bad, not Japanese.I'll be exploring this question after the break.”
Here’s a comment I made on JPX’s review of this last week: “I can't tell how I feel about remakes that are good movies but leave one asking why they bothered. Of course, the prequel is based on the world of the remake, so it’s kind of like when Doc and Marty have to travel backwards from the parallel world where Biff is rich and has the big casino. Anyway, I’m pretty sure Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the first movie to have a remake AND a prequel made of it, which makes it the vanguard of 21st Century Hollywood.
Remember in 1999 when I said that, just as Empire Strikes Back spawned a tsumani of sequels, Phantom Menace would do the same thing for prequels? No? Damn, I should’ve written it down. I can’t take any more road trips gone bad. I just took Wrong Turn, Wolf Creek and the Rob Zombie movies off my Netflix queue. I am officially burned out on the Mad Hillbilly genre for the rest of the ‘thon. On Thursday I watched the Chainsaw remake and then went out an hour later to catch the Chainsaw prequel.
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