Just try to think about how any of the locals (including those we met in the film and others we haven’t) would react in the wake of what happened during the movie and everything quickly falls apart. The conclusion of the film, though, is a reminder of how simpleminded it is, leaving a ton of discarded plotlines, unanswered questions and events that simply make no sense if closely examined. There are also several cameos from Chainsaw alums, including the original film’s Gunnar Hansen, John Dugan and Marilyn Burns, and Part 2’s Moseley, though only Burns and Moseley have anything of note to do. Certainly, Texas Chainsaw 3D doesn’t skimp on the red stuff, offering plenty of good and gory demises for those who come across Leatherface. As someone very over 3D and who finds it more distracting than “immersive”, I will also say this – at this point, it felt almost quaint and nostalgic to have a movie where 3D is used to SHOVE CHAINSAWS IN YOUR FACE and to splatter the camera with blood, and there’s old school fun to be had in those moments. On the other hand, Texas Chainsaw 3D's halfhearted attempts to humanize Leatherface a bit more amount to little, as the payoff isn't earned and the fact that he kills innocent people and eats them kind of outweighs everything else. It’s a shame to have him separated from his family here, which normally serves to give the character a much different vibe from your Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers-type solo slashers, but when you see that giant sucker running at someone with a chainsaw, it’s pretty intense – and the movie does get some good mileage out of some well-timed jump scares. What does work? Well, Leatherface (here played by Dan Yeager), when he's on the hunt, at the least. But director John Luessenhop (working from a script from Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan and Kirsten Elms) brings little to the human flesh-filled table here, lacking the uber-gritty you-are-there-style Hooper had in the original, the more stylized intensity of the 2003 remake, or any true wit or drama. As a horror/slasher fan, I’m used to accepting formulaic and eye-rolling moments if it’s accompanied by any sort of notable style or tone.
Plotlines about infidelity and such go nowhere, and Heather’s discovery about her family history never feels at all as weighty or impactful as it could. The cast – including Trey Songz, Scott Eastwood, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Tania Raymonde and Shaun Sopos - are fine for this type of film, but there's so much going on that just kind of sits there or feels extraneous. One semi-self-aware line doesn’t make it any better when you watch someone do something so obviously destined to end with their death. What follows in the present day* is no better, and Texas Chainsaw 3D (which, according to the opening credits, is actually called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, by the way) turns into a formulaic horror film suffering from the kind of stock characters making dumb decisions that it’s hard not to feel pretty exasperated by at this point. That opening sequence, involving the level-headed Sheriff Hooper (Thom Barry) trying to keep an angry and unruly crowd of locals in check, sets a bad precedent with lots of clunky, forced dialogue and unbelievable, over the top behavior – and not from the Sawyer family, who at least have their insanity to excuse them. Unfortunately, though, what happened right after turns out to be pretty silly. And certainly, if you’re a fan of the original Chainsaw, it is pretty cool to see footage from that film in the opening credits and to get a look at what happened right afterwards for the first time. But okay, let’s wipe the slate clean and consider this the latest in a line of seemingly never-ending Chainsaw Massacre alternate realities at this point, like something out of Marvel Comics. Texas Chainsaw 3D is being promoted as the true sequel to the original film, which is amusing given Tobe Hooper’s own Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 already could make that claim (which included Siedow reprising his role), and the third and fourth films also kinda/sorta could be seen as sequels to the original - with each installment doing what this new film does, and ignoring any other previous sequels. Soon, a trip to Texas will introduce Heather and her friends to a cousin with a thing for chainsaws and wearing masks made of human skin. Until, as an adult, Heather (Alexandra Daddario) is told she just inherited a home from family she never knew she had.
One member of the Sawyer clan, a baby, is taken from the scene, growing up with adoptive parents and unaware of her lineage.
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