So, I watched Leatherface yesterday and have already forgotten a lot of stuff about it, but it was a pretty decent flick, even though it generally ignores the second movie and I'm usually a fan of continuity. But let's be real, none of the TCM movies can ever really live up to the original, it's a true classic that can't (and shouldn't) be replicated, though I've got no problem with new stories being told in that world. Which is kind of the route they took with TCM3.
This time, you've got a couple driving across country who get rerouted while the cops excavate a mass grave full of corpses. This brings them in contact with a creepy gas station owner who, you guessed it, has ties to Leatherface's family. This time, though you've got a mother figure along with grandpa, a little girl and maybe some other people, I got pretty confused and I wasn't really paying a lot of attention for different parts. Anyway, the couple end up in the woods with Ken Foree (from my favorite zombie movie of all time, Dawn of the Dead) who's a survival dude who just happens upon the craziness.
You get the basic running through the woods, dinner and chainsaw scenes in this flick. Oh and a great performance by Viggo Mortensen who SPOILER plays Tex, a guy who fakes getting killed and then turns out to be part of the family. At one point he gives Leatherface this crazy chrome-plated chainsaw with "The Saw Is Family" carved into the blade. It's kind of hilarious, but still creepy. Speaking of Leatherface, we get a pretty good version in this flick as he cuts a woman's face off in the opening, nails a girls hands to a chair and just generally looks like he wants to murder you.
There's some pretty cool gore effects in this one and the performances are all pretty solid. A higher death count would have been nice, but what are you gonna do? Worth checking out for slasher and TCM fans.
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