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- 2017
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 30 m
- 2017
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 30 m
Summary In Texas, years before the events of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in the early days of the infamous Sawyer family, the youngest child is sentenced to a mental hospital after a suspicious incident leaves the sheriff’s daughter dead. Ten years later, the Sawyer teen kidnaps a young nurse and escapes with three other inmates. Pursued by a...
Directed By: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Written By: Seth M. Sherwood, Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel
- 2017
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 30 m
- 2017
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 30 m
Leatherface
40
4.8
Where to Watch
Summary In Texas, years before the events of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in the early days of the infamous Sawyer family, the youngest child is sentenced to a mental hospital after a suspicious incident leaves the sheriff’s daughter dead. Ten years later, the Sawyer teen kidnaps a young nurse and escapes with three other inmates. Pursued by a...
Directed By: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Written By: Seth M. Sherwood, Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
40
25% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
42% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
40
25% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
42% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Like the film's punishingly gory set pieces, the storytelling itself is meaty.
The gory carnage is sparingly but vividly staged, the suspense-driven plot twisty enough to tax the brain.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 60 User Ratings
4.8
25% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
42% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
33% Negative
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 60 User Ratings
4.8
25% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
42% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
33% Negative
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
Photography was really good, just an excellent looking movie. It was well lit, the audio mix is very well done, the performances are solid. The makeup was good, the cars were very nice and accurate. Lilly Taylor has been an excellent actress for a long time, the first movie i saw her in was Dogfight (1991), an excellent romantic comedy with River Phoenix at his pinnacle-she stole the movie from him by the way. I am not too crazy about unnecessary gore in a movie and this one didn't linger on gore too much. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an excellent example of a movie with a reputation for gore while having very little actually present. The Original TCM was extremely well made from an editing and camerawork perspective. I bet the cinematographer for this movie could be hired pretty cheap. The only thing lacking i would say, more psychology in use for some character development, otherwise this movie was very watchable.
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I'll **** on everyone who ****s on this Leatherface Movie this was one of the best Leatherface Movies
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While Leatherface, a prequel directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (“Inside”), works OK as a gory horror film (necrophilia, beheading, partial defenestration and beating eaten alive by pigs are a few of the delights), it makes less sense as part of the surprisingly (and needlessly) expansive “Texas Chainsaw” universe, as it were.
Leatherface is an origin story that attempts to carve new mythos for one of horror's mightiest legends, but ends up leaning on franchise references and bleakness to an unnecessary fault.
To turn Leatherface into a tragic figure, twisted by traumatic upbringing into a monster, is to forget that he’s scariest as a force of nature, which tend to be tough to diagnose. Remember, no one cares what the shark from Jaws was like as a tortured guppy.
Leatherface is second only to Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” remake in horror’s pantheon of terrible origin stories.
Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's anonymous work here could've been overseen by any hipster looking to make a mark at Platinum Dunes.
A excepción de los últimos quince minutos de película, el título Leatherface sale sobrando, la historia de origen que quisieron darle al legendario personaje es bastante errática y dispersa en donde el susodicho es presentado como un chico desamparado que es alejado de su desquiciada familia y enviado a un hospital mental donde junto a su enfermera y otros chicos treinta mil veces más trastornados que el se fugan y comienza un recorrido que no los lleva a ningún lado y donde Cara de Cuero es mas un antihéroe que otra cosa, pese a todas esas inconsistencia, es un filme bastante decente y entretenido, mejor que la versión del 2013 y que las secuelas de 1986, 1990 y por poco mejor que la de 1994.
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The acting was average at best, the movie made no sense, it was quite unbelievable most of the times and most importantly, it didn't feel like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie. While the gore effects and the violence was well made and quite fun to watch, the movie was a little bit too uneven to be qualified a good movie.
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Like in the new sequel (Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)) to the original (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)) this tries to make you feel sorry for the evil character Leatherface and empathise with him. I don’t like this. I preferred it when they were total psychopaths. My favourite film in this franchise is still the original sequel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)). This 2017 entry is really gory and quite gross but it is not as violent as other entries. The violence felt like it was for the audience and not for the story, it seemed forced. My biggest problem is that I feel the family acted so out of character, instead of mindless killing machines they come across as intelligent and calculating. I miss it when they were opportunistic psychopaths. Not the worst film but also not the best, I'm on the fence, not as entertaining as it should have been but had some originality and value.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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A slight upgrade from the last film in the franchise still leaves it without a pulse. Why continue to make such terrible choices with this character? I get the idea that the character of Leather Face could be an interesting horror villain but nobody ever does anything interesting with him. This is just another wasted effort. D
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Production Company
Campbell Grobman Films,
LF2 Productions,
Lionsgate Films,
Mainline Pictures,
Millennium Films
Release Date Oct 20, 2017
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating R
Tagline Witness the beginning of your end.
