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The whole fear-of-obese-hillbillies device is starting to smell as stale as Leatherface's playroom. Does this horror trend simply reflect a national fear, as giant radioactive ants personified the Bomb in the 1950s? If so, maybe it's time for us all to go on a diet; America needs fresh fodder for its boogeymen.
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50A lot more enjoyable if you can leave your cognitive skills at the door.
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50"The Beginning" is a better movie than the 2003 remake, even if the plot is understandably similar. There are only so many ways hapless teens can get brutally slaughtered, after all, but Liebesman and company keep things appropriately creepy, right down to aping the look of the 1974 original.
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50Few surprises lie in store for connoisseurs of torture cinema, though unlike its 2003 predecessor, this Massacre owes less to Bay's attention-deficient aesthetics than to the measured, Georgia O'Keefe-on-acid sensibility that guided Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel's much-cannibalized original.
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This is not a slick, jokey horror movie in the post-"Scream" mold, but a genuine attempt to strip the coating from the audience's nerves. It's nasty and brutish, if not particularly short.
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50Mindlessly repeats the archetypal "Chainsaw" scenario.
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50More or less restages Tobe Hooper's 1974 original, including its much-loved family dinner scene.
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38Just another trip down a very dusty road.
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38Misses everything that made the first one eat into your spine like meningitis.
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38Who will survive and what will be left of them? If you don't have a pretty good idea, this is not the movie for you. If you do, rest assured you've seen it all before.
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30Only good old Leatherface literally mirrors the festering cultural and political corruption of the era, and to the film's vast discredit, this hideous echo is never even noted.
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30Sadly, this movie is a far cry from the atmospheric, even thoughtfully crafted original, which made you truly scared for the unkempt, everyman victims. But this latest version, though just as grisly, is literally hackwork, and stars a forgettable, airbrushed cast of slaughterees.
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25If watching people having their faces cut off, getting their legs amputated and having their throats tenderly slit is your idea of a horrific good time, you'll certainly get your money's worth here.
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25The new prequel isn't really a slasher movie at all. It's a mess, with too much to say, and an odd genre in which to preach.
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Unlike "Hostel" or "Wolf Creek," TCM:B is rank and depressing.
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25It's really gory and really dull. Mostly just dull.
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20Auds would be well advised not to attempt "Beginning" on a full stomach.
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0Putridly written, directed and acted.
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ND8Really enjoyed this - loved the original remake too. R Lee Ermey makes this film - loads of blood and overall worth a watch.