Lakeland Mirror

Issue date: 11/6/03 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an hour and a half of blood-spewing good old gory fun. In order to watch this movie and enjoy it, you need to forget all of the hype and get into the story. Yes, this movie is very much hyped, but is it scary? Well it depends on what you get scared from, so if you're a person that is easily startled by blood or can be easily startled, then I suggest that you might not go see this one alone, and see it in the day. Five teenagers just coming back from Mexico on their way to a Lynard Skynard Concert come across this seemingly very disturbed girl walking along the road, who they try to go and get help for, but as they get closer into town the girl pulls out a gun and shoots herself. Now the five teenagers get caught up in a small rural town where everyone knows everyone and everyone seems to be related. There are two actors that really give standout performances in this movie. The first is R. Lee Emery (Apocalypse Now, Saving Silverman) who plays the psychotic Sheriff Hoyt. He really seems to enjoy this role, playing a complete asshole of a Sheriff, and he is very combative in his acting, which draws more attention than that of the main characters he surrounds most of the time. The other is Andrew Bryniarski who gives a commanding performance as Thomas Hewitt, a.k.a. Leatherface. There is one thing that I really did not like from this movie from seeing the original as a kid. I did not like the change of the five kids from a family looking for the remains of their dug up relatives, to five kids coming back from Mexico with a lot of drugs, and I mean honestly, that did not have to happen at all. Other than that, the movie was an hour and a half of gory goodness.

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