Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an upcoming slasher film, directed by David Blue Garcia, with a screenplay by Chris Thomas Devlin, from an original story co-written by Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues. Intended to be a direct sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, disregarding all other films in the franchise, the project will be the ninth overall installment.Wikipedia
If you are a fan of the original this may be worth your time….
UPDATE
Strike that, reverse it! This movie is simply not good. Certainly faithful in some aspects but in others this is just an exercise in propaganda and identity politics. That aside, one of the central issues is that “Sally Hardesty, the sole survivor of 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, she was left broken and barely alive after her narrow escape from Leatherface and his family of backwoods cannibals. Subsequent Chainsaw films revealed that Sally had been institutionalized almost immediately, slipping into catatonia inside a mental hospital. Sally wasn’t seen on-screen again until a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo in 1994’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, where she was just a mute shell of a woman strapped to a gurney. (TM) ”
However now many years later again according to TM: ” Sally Hardesty returns for the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the confusingly titled sequel that arrives February 18 on Netflix. By the looks of things, she’s feeling much better. Now played by the Irish theater star Olwen Fouéré—Sally’s original portrayer, Houston actress Marilyn Burns, died in 2014—she’s first glimpsed calmly gutting a pig with a Buck knife. She’s become a stony badass in a tank top, a mane of untamed white hair cascading down her back. ” They go on to state: “Frankly, it shouldn’t be that hard to make a good Texas Chainsaw movie. Get some sexed-up young’uns, have them stumble into the Texas wilderness, then turn Leatherface loose to hunt them down.”
They go on to introduce the rest of the cringe riddled cast, which just brings the film to a screeching halt as TM notes in their article: “But whatever fleeting joys are to be found in the splatter and satire are frequently doused by the film’s resolutely solemn, strangely mournful tone. Melody’s younger sister, Lila (Eighth Grade’s Elsie Fisher), is the PTSD-suffering survivor of a school shooting, and repeatedly flashes back to a trauma that’s meant to mirror Sally’s own and reinforce the film’s narrative of empowerment, I suppose, while also commenting on America’s regrettable modern norms. Mostly, though, it just feels like a crass bid for topicality. And it continually brings the film to a screeching halt, asking the viewer to stop and reflect on our tragic, real-world violence before it gets back to the decapitations. “
So in short, avoid this garbage at all costs!
