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

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

It's horrible and explicitly violent, but never authentically scary.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2004

All the bad-rehash mojo from Friday the 13th to The Blair Witch Project has infected Scott Kosar's script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 15, 2004

For dedicated admirers of the original, this version is just another rehash of the classic, but for new-comers or those who are looking for a good, old-fashioned scare, then there is plenty of meat on this table.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Nov 22, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 8, 2003

It's a gory, stylish, and occasionally scary push-button factory of shocks and shrieks remarkably better than anyone had the right to expect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2003

... a bloody good time of a B-movie.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2003

While lacking the kinetic intensity of its predecessor, this incarnation of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre gets the job done.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2003

While it's far from bad, it also falls far short of the icy frissons produced by the original.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 22, 2003

An overproduced, video-director remake, slick and grue-marinated and loud as a sonic boom.

Full Review | Oct 21, 2003

Weakens, dilutes, disinfects and otherwise undermines the legacy of Tobe Hooper's 1974 original.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2003

You realize how hard this is on me, to have to tell you what a superb job director Marcus Nispel has done re-creating, yet also revising, 1974's grisly, gristly, protein-centric masterpiece.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2003

Next to this redundant, pointless and witless retread, the classic status of Tobe Hooper's original version is officially beyond dispute.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2003

Mainly it's a vapid, vicious thrill ride that washes away immediately.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 17, 2003

Unlike movies such as Seven, there isn't enough style in the new The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to justify the bloodbath, and it's riddled with too much been-there-done-that to endure as a classic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2003

A splatterfest remake that relentlessly assaults the senses and mind with no discernable redeeming social value.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 17, 2003