Rotten
Gross and sadistic but never scary.
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
What you know about fear... doesn't even come close.
2006 · 1h 31m · R
Horror
Directed by
Jonathan Liebesman
Overview
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
Director and cast
- Jonathan Liebesman Director
- Jordana Brewster as Chrissie
- Taylor Handley as Dean
- Diora Baird as Bailey
- Matt Bomer as Eric
- R. Lee Ermey as Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt
- Lew Temple as Sheriff Winston Hoyt
- Andrew Bryniarski as Thomas Hewitt (Leatherface)
- Tim DeZarn as Slaughterhouse Supervisor
- Lee Tergesen as Holden
- Cyia Batten as Alex
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
14%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Oppressive, mean-spirited and sadistic, The Beginning is an unsavoury exercise in cruelty and pain that one hopes will also be the end.
Chris Tilly, Time Out
Rotten
Attention sadists: Demand more from your gorefests than this pro forma return to the well. Has mass murder ever been this dull?
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning relies on made-you-jump shocks and more fake entrails than a Jaycees haunted house.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
Rotten
The story's been played out so many times.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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