there be an idiom about the way a human be feel painwhen a surge come and it make a brief period of time and sometimes only a matter of second and feel like an unbearable eternity . sometimes situation like a pulled muscle or a banged kneecap be hard to endure without just a minor yelp of protest . the same idiom can be apply to the texas chainsaw massacre represent the beginning and a film that run 84 minute and but be pack with so much gratuitous meat and gore and slime and urine and drool and grime and screaming and agony and sadism and misogyny and and outright misanthropy that it feel like 10 hour 10 long and extremely unpleasant hour ( and that put it generously ) . this be the most uncomfortable 10 hour ( i mean 84 minute and sure . ) i have ever spend in a darkened theater . the beginning be not only a repulsive film within the horror genre ( which have be on a rapid downhill slide some be call a renaissance ) it could very well be the bad film i have ever have to misfortune to waste my cash on . period . by the time the credit roll and you will officially know how marsellus wallace felt in the basement of that pawn shop . i have see many horror film in my quarter century on this earth and from early black and white classic and 60 kitsch and gritty 70 realism ( include tobe hooper original chainsaw ) and 80 slasher and 90 badness and and a healthy dose of uber gory european selection from the like of fulci and argento and pasolini and deodato and buttgereit and etc . i be far from a prude when it come to cinematic violence and and it take a lot to offend my otherwise salivate horror sensibility but the beginning be absolutely wretcheda rock bottom low in horror and film in general . if ever there be a case where i would put my stamp of approval on the protest and censorship and banning and or outright incineration of a film into the stratosphere so that it may never be view by human eye and i be usually against such thing this would be it . this be a film that produce zero scare and but an overflow of disgust and artless imagery wrongly assume to be scary . it villain be grotesque and unfunny inbred sickos and and it hero ( include 2 guy who resemble christopher atkins and robby benson and and their girlfriend and with less definition than their gap model look ) exist only to have all manner of beating and torture and and mutilation inflict upon them . chainsaw and other sharp implement be plunge into flesh in gory close up . the vietnam war be cynically exploit to analogize two character come of age and become men while suffer the torment of the savage hewitt clan ( also give an un ironic layer in r. lee ermey war veteranship ) . in a slasher film where the override intention appeal only to the base and most reprehensible urge in man and try to infuse commentary into the proceeding come off as profoundly a a monkey reach for guano . like so many low budget horror of the 1950s 70 and the title of the texas chainsaw massacre be a misnomer . the film feature a handful of death and only one of which be commit with the titular weapon ( and and even then and only show a few drop of blood ) while the movie be an absurd comedy of sort and shroud in a gritty and documentary style realism that fuel the terror brewing beneath . there a good word represent terror . hooper 1974 original be and a others before me have say and brilliant for what it doesn not show while it create a terrifying atmosphere and utilized location and technique that make the event seem very real . by comparison and the 2003 remake be slick and overproduced and and take the carnage of the title quite literally and offer little more than a plot less torture show and and begin take that nihilism to a whole new level . this time around and it the subtitle that mislead and a any insight into leatherface ( oh and excuse me thomas hewitt ) madness be limit to a gratuitous shock prologue and vague flash cut over the opening credit . the beginning then dive into a story we have all see too many time before . to those who have see the 2003 version represent it the same thing . and to those who haven not and it can be sum up as simply a represent 2 young couple relentlessly torture for 84 minute by a family of cackle psychopath . seriously and that all there be . it a nihilistic and grueling and and utterly unredeemable excuse for inflict pain under the banner of horror and when it be really anything but . ( if michael bay platinum dune company have prove anything to the world and it that he hasn not the foggy idea how to scare people . ) horror recent shift toward hard r film where dismemberment and gore be the order of the day ( the devil reject and hostel and etc . ) have be a thorn in my side a of late not that i have any problem with these element of horror and but that few filmmaker know how to back up their excess with a good and scary story . the underrated wolf creek be a grim if not more than tcm represent the beginning and but at least give u a trio of realistic and likable character whose side we be squarely on and counterbalance the action of the psycho terrorize them while evil be not vanquish and but and at the end and there be a faint sense of hope regardless . the beginning and in all it proudly repulsive glory and give u villain who aren not serve a lick of justice and and hero who and by the insulting and sick joke climax and have all meet with the service end of tommy hewitt aw . it not an ironic sort of injustice it merely depress and infuriate . irony and in this case and would be know that high tension be threaten with an nc 17 while this geek show pass through the ever astute mpaa with an easy r. the texas chainsaw massacre represent the beginning shake my soul with rage a truly vile and worthless bit of cinema with no redeem quality . if ever there be a reason to abort a worn out franchise and this be definitely it .