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Bailey was injured in the crash, but what came after proved to be far worse. The town’s sheriff was actually a man named Charlie Hewitt who had operated under the alias Sheriff Hoyt. He pulled Eric, Dean and Bailey from the overturned vehicle (Chrissie had been throw clear of the jeep during the crash).

Who survived Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning?

Dean eventually does 20 push ups and Hoyt beats him more, then says he’s free to go, although Dean seems to be temporarily paralyzed. When Hoyt leaves, Eric breaks free from his restraints and gets Dean to safety while he sneaks back in the house and frees Bailey.

Is Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning a true story?

Despite being heavily touted as “inspired by a true story,” both Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 film and the 2003 Marcus Nispel remake are only lightly based on the real-life murderer Ed Gein, who is suspected to have taken several victims between 1954 and 1957.

Who is the baby in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003?

Henrietta Hewitt is one of the major antagonist in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 Remake. She’s associated with the continuity of the reboot series and first appeared in the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. She was played by actress Heather Kafka in the film.

What was Leatherface real name?

Thomas Brown Hewitt
In this continuity, Leatherface’s real name is Thomas Brown Hewitt; his mother Sloane dies giving birth to him in August 1939 at the Blair Meat Co., a slaughterhouse where she works, and her uncaring boss leaves the infant to die in a dumpster.

Is Texas Chainsaw Massacre still alive?

On July 26, 1984, Ed Gein, a serial killer infamous for skinning human corpses, dies of complications from cancer in a Wisconsin prison at age 77.

What happens to Sally in Texas Chainsaw?

In Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III it is revealed that Sally died in private health care facility in 1977.

Is Erin pregnant in Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

These scenes reveal that Erin was actually pregnant with her boyfriend Kemper’s child throughout the film. In this alternate ending though, which was planned but never actually shot, Erin is revealed to be nine months pregnant, and gives birth while hiding outside the meat factory from Leatherface.

Movie Review

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a prequel to 2003’s quasi-remake (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) of a 1974 movie that was grotesquely inspired by real-life events. This time around, we are given the inside splash about the origins of Leatherface—a chain saw-wielding mass murderer—and what created his cannibalistic, insane “family.”

We see Leatherface born in 1939 on the bloody, grimy floor of a slaughterhouse. And we see his surrogate mother discover his unwanted, misshapen body wrapped in butcher paper in a garbage bin.

From there we zip through his childhood and his first handful of animal tortures. Soon he is a hulking, silent, meatpacker who keeps his deformed face hidden behind a veil. By the late ’60s, the place is condemned and the real slaughter begins as Leatherface smashes his boss’ skull when he tries to fire him. To keep the brute out of jail, his uncle murders the local policeman and assumes his identity. Other family members fear that these actions could bring trouble. But at least with two dead bodies lying around, there’s now plenty to eat.

It sounds like a bad joke, but The Texas Chainsaw movies aren’t prone to idle jests.

Later, two young lusty couples are road tripping through the area and are unfortunate enough to have a car accident. Leatherface’s policeman-impersonating uncle (Sheriff Hoyt) throws the kids in the back of his stolen cruiser and takes them home for dinner.

Positive Elements

In a film like this, that celebrates bloody mayhem, there is little good to note. However, a few selfless acts are displayed. In spite of being a witness to the horrendous tortures inflicted upon her boyfriend, Chrissie turns from escape and goes back to try to rescue another friend. And brothers Dean and Eric each put their lives on the line in futile hope of saving the other.

Spiritual Elements

When Sheriff Hoyt brings a pot of stew made from human flesh to the dinner table, Leatherface’s mother chides him that he must say grace before anyone eats. Later, with their young captives this time, Hoyt delivers a lengthy prayer of thanks for the bounty that they have: “We were hungry and he gave us meat. Thirsty and he gave us drink.” He ends with an “Amen” and then goes on to yell at a young victim at the table, “You’re gonna pay for your sins!”

In the opening scene a pregnant woman clutches a rosary around her neck as she feels a pain in her abdomen.

Sexual Content

When we first meet the four travelers, they’re spending the day at a run-down motel. Dean is tied to a bed for sex games with his girlfriend, Bailey, who strips down to bra and panties and licks her way erotically up his chest. She coos, “I’m gonna use my tongue in ways the Lord never intended.” Meanwhile, Chrissie and Eric are out by the pool. Eric slides his hand up her bare leg and talks about last wishes before he ships off to Vietnam. She retorts, “You’ve been getting ‘last wishes’ all this last week.”

After being captured, a battered Bailey is shown tied up in cleavage-revealing positions that exude a kind of sexual bondage undertone. She’s tied to a bed at one point (in a mirror image of the scene with her boyfriend) and Hoyt puts his hand on her breast and leans in to kiss her saying, “I love you.” (The camera then retreats, but we hear her screams.)

The sheriff grabs his crotch while in his boxer shorts. Chrissie wears a midriff-baring halter top. A vulgar jab is made about incest.

Violent Content

Leatherface’s first murder encompasses him breaking his boss’s arms and legs and smashing his face in with a large hammer. But that’s only a mild warm-up for the rest of the film. From there, nearly every scene in this 90-minute gristle-fest is ripe with some kind of blood-drenched violence accompanied by extremely loud percussive sounds.

There are several shotgun blasts to the face; bludgeonings and bone breaks with hammers, sticks and pipes; near suffocation with plastic wrap; the repeated smashing of a face on hardwood; knife, scissor and cleaver stabbings; skewering and dragging with a meat hook; skin stripped from living victims; and, of course, hacking, slashing and impaling with a chain saw. Everything and everyone gets drenched in gallons of blood and gore.

Two particularly graphic and disturbing scenes are worth calling out. When a man gets shot in the leg. Hoyt instructs Leatherface to remove the offended limb with his saw. The act is displayed in stomach lurching detail. Then the sheriff notices that the second leg was nicked by the chain and instructs Leatherface to cut it off, too. “For balance.”

Elsewhere, the facially deformed Leatherface keeps rubbing his foul, malignant hands all over the handsome visage of one of his victims. He then butchers the man with his chain saw and we watch as he slowly and painstakingly cuts and peels the corpse’s face off (which he sews into a mask for himself).

Crude or Profane Language

Over 30 f-words and around 20 s-words. Male and female genitalia are crudely and obscenely referenced several times. Jesus’ name is abused a handful of times, and God’s name is combined with “d–n” four or five times.

Drug and Alcohol Content

A beer is pulled out of the refrigerator. Some bikers are seen drinking. Hoyt spits chewing tobacco juice. A woman smokes.

Other Negative Elements

Cannibalism is a large part of this film and seems to be spurred on by Sheriff Hoyt. He tells two boys of once being a prisoner of war and culling out members of their group to kill and eat. He also goads Leatherface into his first human butchery with the statement, “Meat is meat. Bone is bone. Get it done.” The family is shown putting severed fingers and a man’s tongue into the soup pot, and the soup is scooped out filled with human bone joints and flesh.

As if there weren’t already enough ugly content, the filmmakers also throw in a shot of a girl hiding under a car while an old man urinates next to her face.

Conclusion

One night when I was 18, I arrived at the scene of an accident in my friend Al’s tow truck and saw a big Oldsmobile crumpled up on the side of the road. Police were busy trying to save someone who was still alive in the car, and the ambulance hadn’t arrived yet. The 16-year-old driver of the vehicle was miraculously unscratched and searching the ground for his car keys (of all things). Then I saw a girl on her knees. Her glazed eyes stared at nothing as her mouth slowly opened and closed. Her throat was cut from ear to ear. Blood and tissue poured down the front of her T-shirt. Al, a licensed paramedic, went to her. I couldn’t help. So I tried to look away. And I learned that images like that can stick with you.

Gory movies aren’t real life. And some will inevitably believe, “It won’t bother me.” But a movie like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, with its overloud skull crunching and its meat-rending, blood-sodden visuals can sear and stick in your brain and in your heart like bubbling summer tar on bare feet.

Enough said.

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