http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/ movie review and news blog Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:31:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-105354 Zombie Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:26:56 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-105354 Good film with much blood Good film with much blood

]]> http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-34883 Hostel: Part II - Review - Movie Reviews Blog Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:15:29 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-34883 [...] Grindhouse experience, harkening back to films like “Last House on the Left” and the original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”. However, unlike his first installment, which I found to be rather luke-warm, “Hostel: Part II” [...] […] Grindhouse experience, harkening back to films like “Last House on the Left” and the original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”. However, unlike his first installment, which I found to be rather luke-warm, “Hostel: Part II” […]

]]> http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-1125 Poltergeist - Movie Reviews Blog Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:51:52 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-1125 [...] While most haunted house films before it were more low-key, psychological horror films, relying on spooky noises and maybe the occasional spectral presence, Poltergeist comes in and blows all that out of the water with incredible special effects and tons of action. The effects, provided by Industrial Light and Magic, are glorious in both their beauty and their occasional grotesquery. This movie, produced by Stephen Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper, is very much a fusion of the two filmmakers’ styles. It has that warm and fuzzy Spielberg feeling, with lots of soft music and adorable children, but lurking beneath that is Tobe Hooper, who stabs you in the gut when you least expect it with gore, evil clowns and a garden of corpses. It’s sort of a “good cop-bad cop” kind of approach, with Spielberg giving the audience a sense of security just long enough for Tobe Hooper to burst through the door with a chainsaw. [...] […] While most haunted house films before it were more low-key, psychological horror films, relying on spooky noises and maybe the occasional spectral presence, Poltergeist comes in and blows all that out of the water with incredible special effects and tons of action. The effects, provided by Industrial Light and Magic, are glorious in both their beauty and their occasional grotesquery. This movie, produced by Stephen Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper, is very much a fusion of the two filmmakers’ styles. It has that warm and fuzzy Spielberg feeling, with lots of soft music and adorable children, but lurking beneath that is Tobe Hooper, who stabs you in the gut when you least expect it with gore, evil clowns and a garden of corpses. It’s sort of a “good cop-bad cop” kind of approach, with Spielberg giving the audience a sense of security just long enough for Tobe Hooper to burst through the door with a chainsaw. […]

]]> http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-757 The Mangler - Movie Reviews Blog Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:08:15 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-757 [...] Three legends of the horror industry come together: Tobe Hooper (the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist), Robert Englund (a Nightmare on Elm Street) and Stephen King (Creepshow, It). So, does this combination result in success? No. No it does not. [...] […] Three legends of the horror industry come together: Tobe Hooper (the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist), Robert Englund (a Nightmare on Elm Street) and Stephen King (Creepshow, It). So, does this combination result in success? No. No it does not. […]

]]> http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-708 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Beginning - Movie Reviews Blog Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:23:45 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-708 [...] Although it is a prequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake which came a few years before it, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Beginning has more homages to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre than the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake did. Also, I just won an award for using “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” so many times in a single sentence. [...] […] Although it is a prequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake which came a few years before it, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Beginning has more homages to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre than the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake did. Also, I just won an award for using “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” so many times in a single sentence. […]

]]> http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-650 Friday the 13th - Movie Reviews Blog Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:43:05 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-650 [...] The major problem I have with the original Friday the 13th is that it’s hard to consider it the “quintessential” installment in the franchise. It got the ball rolling, certainly, but it lacks the one element Joe Average recognizes the Friday the 13th franchise for: Jason. And that, basically, is the major fault of the entire Friday the 13th franchise (though I love it so); there really isn’t a “quintessential” installment. Halloween, a Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre…the first films in those franchises are considered the best by most and have all the elements instantly recognizable of the series. Jason, at least the hockey mask-clad version we remember best, didn’t show up on screens until the third film in the franchise (he wore a burlap sack in Part 2), and by then he wasn’t stalking camp counselors anymore, just stupid teenagers in vacation houses. [...] […] The major problem I have with the original Friday the 13th is that it’s hard to consider it the “quintessential” installment in the franchise. It got the ball rolling, certainly, but it lacks the one element Joe Average recognizes the Friday the 13th franchise for: Jason. And that, basically, is the major fault of the entire Friday the 13th franchise (though I love it so); there really isn’t a “quintessential” installment. Halloween, a Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre…the first films in those franchises are considered the best by most and have all the elements instantly recognizable of the series. Jason, at least the hockey mask-clad version we remember best, didn’t show up on screens until the third film in the franchise (he wore a burlap sack in Part 2), and by then he wasn’t stalking camp counselors anymore, just stupid teenagers in vacation houses. […]

]]> http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-595 House of 1000 Corpses - Movie Reviews Blog Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:34:26 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-595 [...] House of 1000 Corpses will most likely remind you of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So much so, you might even qualify it as a “remake”, though I’d go with “homage” in this instance. The plot is almost identical and there’s even the presence of the magnificent Bill Mosley (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and the unreleased All-American Massacre). Despite unashamed similarities in story, what separates House of 1000 Corpses from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the presentation. [...] […] House of 1000 Corpses will most likely remind you of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So much so, you might even qualify it as a “remake”, though I’d go with “homage” in this instance. The plot is almost identical and there’s even the presence of the magnificent Bill Mosley (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and the unreleased All-American Massacre). Despite unashamed similarities in story, what separates House of 1000 Corpses from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the presentation. […]

]]> http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-459 The Hills Have Eyes (2006) - Movie Reviews Blog Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:26:30 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-459 [...] The movie, as you may expect, follows in the same vein as The Devil’s Rejects and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Due to nuclear testing in the American west prior to the Cold War, an entire mining community has been mutated into horrific cannibals. The Carter family, on their way to San Diego, gets some horrible advice from a gas station attendant and soon find themselves in the middle of cannibal territory. Of course, they don’t know this until family members start dying. [...] […] The movie, as you may expect, follows in the same vein as The Devil’s Rejects and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Due to nuclear testing in the American west prior to the Cold War, an entire mining community has been mutated into horrific cannibals. The Carter family, on their way to San Diego, gets some horrible advice from a gas station attendant and soon find themselves in the middle of cannibal territory. Of course, they don’t know this until family members start dying. […]

]]> http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-458 Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie - Movie Reviews Blog Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:24:51 +0000 http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/#comment-458 [...] The rest of the cast isn’t so bad. Knuckles isn’t quite as angry-sounding as I’d have liked. He works, though. Tails, on the other hand, sounds like he has a cold through the whole movie. Most-likely, the actor was just holding their nose the whole time. The BEST voice, however, would have to be Dr. Robotnik. He has a great mad scientist-thing going, and to make it even better, he’s voiced by the Hitchhiker from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Awesome. [...] […] The rest of the cast isn’t so bad. Knuckles isn’t quite as angry-sounding as I’d have liked. He works, though. Tails, on the other hand, sounds like he has a cold through the whole movie. Most-likely, the actor was just holding their nose the whole time. The BEST voice, however, would have to be Dr. Robotnik. He has a great mad scientist-thing going, and to make it even better, he’s voiced by the Hitchhiker from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Awesome. […]

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