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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

What you know about fear... doesn't even come close.

Release:2006
Runtime:1h 31m
Country:United States
Director:Jonathan Liebesman
Language:English

Genre

HorrorThriller
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Keywords

War VeteranSadismPsychopathMass MurderGoreKnifeBikerPrequel
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb5.8/10· 81K votes
Rotten Tomatoes16%
Metacritic30%
TMDb6.154/10· 2K votes

With 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 5.8/10 on IMDb and 30/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

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.

Cast of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

  • Jordana Brewster

    Jordana Brewster

    as Chrissie

  • Taylor Handley

    Taylor Handley

    as Dean

  • Diora Baird

    Diora Baird

    as Bailey

  • Matt Bomer

    Matt Bomer

    as Eric

  • R. Lee Ermey

    R. Lee Ermey

    as Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt

  • Lew Temple

    Lew Temple

    as Sheriff Winston Hoyt

  • Andrew Bryniarski

    Andrew Bryniarski

    as Thomas Hewitt / Leatherface

  • Tim DeZarn

    Tim DeZarn

    as Slaughterhouse Supervisor

  • Lee Tergesen

    Lee Tergesen

    as Holden

  • Cyia Batten

    Cyia Batten

    as Alex

  • Terrence Evans

    Terrence Evans

    as Monty Hewitt

  • Marietta Marich

    Marietta Marich

    as Luda Mae Hewitt

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning facts

Budget
$16M
Box office
$50.5M
Collection
Texas Chainsaw (Reboot) Collection

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

  • •Gore and horror create genuinely disturbing psychological atmosphere
  • •Cannibal mythology provides dark exploitation-horror foundation authentically
  • •Cruelty theme explores human depravity without redemptive sentimentality

What the audience disliked

  • •Graphic violence prioritizes shock value over substantive storytelling
  • •Prequel narrative adds little thematic depth to original universe
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