A group of youngsters decides to revive a ghost town in Texas without possibly imagining it is Leatherface’s home.
If you’ve watched the latest Wrong Turn (2021), there is no need to explain why shoving political agendas down one’s throat can ruin a film. Texas Chainsaw Massacre scared me a bit at first, but it managed to save it quickly. And then it ruined it again. Leatherface’s brutality shows no remorse or mercy before he even wears the face. As a matter of fact, he is the film’s best ingredient.
David Blue Garcia Massacre‘s narrative is built on millennial characters, behaviours, and mentalities that I cannot so much relate to. I find it difficult to understand why one would react to such a horror the way they do. But that is just me. Maybe you’ll be able to. There is an emotional clash here between totally indifferent (to me) notions, such as “sjw” and “cancel society” and an utterly lethal Leatherface who unleashes his full cinematic potential. Even the bus scenes, admittedly a bloody and visceral sequence, could have been constructed with no music and a lot slower editing to let every savagely violent murder be better visually absorbed.
Tobe Hooper (interestingly, wearing the producer’s hat) and Marcus Nispel created actual suffering for more realistic people who weren’t directly involved in politics. Leatherface is a political and, consequently, societal outcome of all the wrongs humanity ever had to offer. Leatherface is a real-life human monster, so being preoccupied with including a forcefully diverse cast – which is insulting rather than politically correct – and building the narrative around that is bound to butcher the film – pun intended. The film initially failed the test screenings with flying colours, and the production went from studio to studio. In the end, Netflix got it, saying, “Yeah, whatever. Bring it” – or something similar.
It seems that today’s hate, racism, bigotry, misanthrope, or however else you want to call it, is consuming us individually but also collectively. Whoever wants to spread hate in society is not welcome to do so. History teaches us that change takes time. Go off-grid and leave us and the cinema alone. Producers are wasting their money, and we are wasting our time. Everyone loses in the end.
Again, Leatherface is worth watching, but the narrative may leave you indifferent. Watch it and make up your own mind. And always remember: The passion for violence, physical or psychological, should never transgress fiction!
P.S. The plotholes and gimmicks are endless.
P.P.S. Imagine wanting to change the world, starting to knock on doors to deliver your message, and the first person who answers is Leatherface.
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