The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an incredibly seminal yet deeply problematic film. While it comments on the death of the American dream and the abandonment of the working class, as well as some critique of the meat industry, it is also a film that revels in the torture and killing of young women. It leans somewhat into sympathy for its villain in a way that is unsettling, but not in a good way. The film's follow ups have never found the right groove to be much more than just slasher porn. It's one of those series that just keeps rebooting itself but never doing anything more than just telling the same story again and again.
The 2022 take on this is more of the same. It promises to be a new "start" to the continuation of the story. But it ends up being just more of the same. It honestly tries with is run of the mill social media critiques, its surface level comments on racism, and its stolen from Halloween/Terminator/Scream final-girl-trauma-revenge plot, a plot it mangles pretty badly. And in the end it offers nothing new and feel as much like a retread as any of the other movies, if not more. At least it is blissfully short.
It couldn't even come up with a new title...
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Starring: Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham, Jacob Latimore, Olwen Fouéré, Alice Krige, Jon Larroquette
Director: David Blue Garcia
Writers: Fede Álvarez, Rodo Sayagues
No comments:
Post a Comment