Andrew Bryniarski, Diora Baird, Jordana Brewster
It's 1969. The conflict in Viet Nam has exploded to immeasurable proportions, and 18-year-old Dean Hillšs number is up. Dean's brother Eric, who has already seen his share of combat, plans to take Dea...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 16, 2007
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September 18, 2009It doesn't really achieve what it sets out to do. The beginning was supposed to explain why the family descended into their horrific madness. This is just another bog standard chapter in a franchise that's past it. Nice cinematography, OK acting, plenty of gore but unnecessary an...( read more)
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April 27, 2009"Witness The Birth Of Fear"
On one last road trip before they're sent to serve in Vietnam, two brothers and their girlfriends get into an accident that calls their local sheriff to the scene. Thus begins a terrifying experience where the teens are taken to a secluded ho...( read more) -
January 15, 2009Aww come on...kill the momentum much!
We liked not knowing the reason or rhyme behind this family of proverbial weirdos, that was the high point, not knowing the why, the what or the how...was it must to kill that, really!?
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January 11, 2009It's 1969. The conflict in Viet Nam has exploded to immeasurable proportions, and 18-year-old Dean Hillšs number is up. Dean's brother Eric, who has already seen his share of combat, plans to take Dean to enlist in his beloved Marine Corps in hopes of keeping an eye on him rather...( read more)
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November 28, 2008More gore from Leatherface n the Hewitt family, typical Texas mayhem but great insight into why leatherface is the sick twisted killer he is.
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Critic Reviews
October 18, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
October 9, 2006
Pete Hammond, Maxim
If you are into extremes this ultra-violent blood feast is probably just your ticket. full review
October 6, 2006
Kyle Smith, New York Post
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning misses everything that made the first one eat into your spine like meningitis. full review
October 4, 2006
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Reducing the iconic brute to a victim of childhood neglect and abuse? That's not, as The Beginning's tagline boasts, "The Birth of Fear." It's the death of it. full review
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August 15, 2009I am desperately after a copy of this movie. Even a burnt copy will do. Willing to swap other movies. If you have this movie, please message me. Any regions okay.
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August 3, 2007From all the Texas chainsaw massacre this have to be the goriest & the least was the original which probably back in the 70's did look brutal now is more like a family movie compared to other horror films.
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April 19, 2007What a fucking waste of money, not gory enough, story sucked, this is why people shouldn't make remakes they ruin the fun and intensity of the original and it didn't even fit well with the remake this was an excuse to make it more like the original, nothing beats the original inbred brothers with a good eye for beef if your going to watch any TCM movie watch the original 2 which are the ways the characters are supposed to be not some half assed kid who got picked on
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