A handful of inspired moments aside, it lacks everything that made the original so horrifying.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2023

It feels like a fable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 22, 2022

This stylish remake is as unfairly maligned as the original, especially when it comes to complaints of gore and torture. This take on Leatherface is filled with dread and several sequences are horrific, particularly Vogel's updated meat hook scene

| Apr 3, 2021

One of the best horror remakes ever made. A truly remarkable piece of work.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 25, 2021

It's R. Lee Ermey of Full Metal Jacket fame who deserves most of the credit for this remake earning its mutilated thumbs-up.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 9, 2014

Hard to do worse than this extremely gory mess.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2011

This poor mediocre remake brings nothing and adds nothing to an already classic film...

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Even a paint-by-numbers slasher is a novelty in this decade.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 28, 2008

An initially promising, but quickly disappointing retread of Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel's hugely influential horror classic.

| Apr 16, 2008

'Inspired by a true story' presumably adds to the sordid thrills; maybe we should look forward to entertainments about Nazis torturing children.

| Apr 16, 2008

Inevitably, given a bigger budget, it lacks the cheap, raw quality of the earlier film that, along with George Romero's outfit in Pennsylvania, showed you could make profitable exploitation shockers on an independent basis far from Hollywood.

| Apr 16, 2008

Just needlessly ugly and unpleasant, not to mention Hollywoodized down to its muddy shoes.

| Original Score: F | Aug 3, 2007

You'll have to overcome resentment towards this unnecessary remake before you can be properly terrorised but, on its own terms, it plays well.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Here's a slice of advice: Go to the video store and rent the original.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2006

The best one can say is that his version is not slavishly in thrall to Hooper's: boring, fright-free and pointless, maybe, but not craven.

| Jun 24, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2006

The biggest question for me is 'Why?'

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

It adheres to the Hollywood formula for horror remakes: Twice the gore, half the scares.

| Original Score: D | Jun 26, 2005