The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Special Edition) (2-DVD) R

What you know about fear… doesn't even come close.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Special Edition)
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Format:  DVD  (2 Discs)
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DVD Details

  • Removable Metal Faceplate!
  • Evidence Kit inside!
  • Alternate Ending and Opening
  • Audio Commentaries
  • DVD-Rom Features
  • Severed Parts - Deleted scenes Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Plainfiend - Shocking documentary on the real killer
  • Screen Tests
  • Art Galleries
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • "Suffocate" Music Video
  • Audio: English [CC]
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 30, 2004
  • Originally Released: 2003
  • Label: New Line Home Video

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten37%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 156

Spilled57%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 400,543
[A] slicked-up remake of director Tobe Hooper's minimalist classic.
USA Today
Apr 2, 2004
The best one can say is that his version is not slavishly in thrall to Hooper's: boring, fright-free and pointless, maybe, but not craven. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Rating: 2/5 -- It's horrible and explicitly violent, but never authentically scary. Full Review
Guardian
Jan 15, 2004
Rating: 1/5 -- Hard to do worse than this extremely gory mess. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Jan 1, 2011
Rating: 7/10 -- Even a paint-by-numbers slasher is a novelty in this decade. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Jun 29, 2008
Rating: 3.5/5 -- It's R. Lee Ermey of Full Metal Jacket fame who deserves most of the credit for this remake earning its mutilated thumbs-up. Full Review
Georgia Straight
Feb 9, 2014
An initially promising, but quickly disappointing retread of Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel's hugely influential horror classic. Full Review
Variety
Apr 16, 2008

Description by OLDIES.com:

A group of friends takes a detour while traveling through the back roads of Texas and encounter a chainsaw-wielding maniac. What happens next is beyond anyone's darkest imagination and will leave you speechless and horrified.

From filmmaker Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II) and starring Jessica Biel ("7th Heaven") comes this year's most hardcore and terrifying film.

Product Description:

Tobe Hooper's TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE appeared like a nightmare in 1974, establishing a whole new genre of horror film. Thirty years later, the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE is back. Directed by well-known commercial and video director Marcus Nispel, and produced by Michael Bay (ARMAGEDDON, PEARL HARBOR), this remake begins in the same place as the original. Five friends are driving through Texas on their way to a concert in Dallas. But when they stop to pick up a hitchhiker, their trip takes a turn for the worse. The friends--Erin (Jessica Biel), Kemper (Eric Balfour), Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), and Andy (Mike Vogel)--have no idea what they're in for when they ask the local sheriff (R. Lee Ermey) for help. It isn't long before the blood begins to pour and the notorious chainsaw of the maniacal, murderous Leatherface starts to roar.

Although considered relatively low budget (9.5 million) by 2003 moviemaking standards, Nispel's remake is worlds away from the no-budget feel of Hooper's original. Where that film left much of the actual gore off camera, Nispel and Bay up the ante by showing every death in all its gruesome detail. They also up the dramatic ante, building to a final act that is relentless and terrifying.

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  • UPC: 794043703126
  • Shipping Weight: 0.58/lbs (approx)
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