I find myself horrified to announce that, apparently, there will be another Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie coming out, though not from Platinum Dunes. This minor gleam of hope is dashed by the announcement that it will be coming out in 3-D.
Word is that producer Mark Burg wants to take the whole Leatherface concept and move it into the modern day, setting it in an “urban” environment and bringing it up to 2010.
This poses some serious boggles as far as that goes–for crying out loud, you’ve got what amounts to a seventy year old Leatherface, unless you try to do something with his age or make him all Jason-Voorhees-immortal or worse yet, introduce a NEW Leatherface. Sure, having Leatherface run amok in, say, an upscale hotel or the ghetto might be entertaining. Kind of a deranged Beverly Hillbillies or something. But there’s entirely too much that could go wrong for me to hold out any kind of optimism on this one.
So will it work? Only time will tell, but considering that Twisted Pictures is handling this one, it’s quite literally anybody’s guess.
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Much ado has been made of the fact that Staunton Hill represents the first ever release from Cameron Romero, son of legendary horror master George Romero. Well, the folks out at Anchor Bay sent me a copy, and I’ve got some terrible news.
Sadly, horror expertise must skip a generation, as Cameron’s outing is little more than a predictable sludge pile of blood spattered horror occasionally featuring torture porn.
Staunton Hill features a lively group of young folks on their way to a civil rights rally out in Washington DC, but aren’t getting there very fast as they’re on foot. When offered a ride most of the way there, they eagerly accept, but when the truck breaks down and they’re back on foot, then all hell breaks loose.
Okay, when I say, “all hell breaks loose”, what I really mean is “three rednecks on a local farm lay waste to the travelers and render them into their component bits for creepy purposes I won’t describe since some of you may want to see this.” This is all the sort of thing you’ve seen before with a few minor modifications–in fact, one wonders if Cameron never bothered to watch his dad’s stuff very often (it turns out he DID, it just doesn’t show in this one) and instead blew all his time staring at The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, because that’s really about all this is, just given a fresh coat of paint.
And this has no real relevance to the film itself, but dude, future note–it’s EXTREMELY bad form to use your DAD for a box quote. There’s a reason you don’t list family members on a job application–it just looks desperate. Like you couldn’t get anyone to actually say anything good about this depressingly bland tripe you’ve served up, so you turned to the closest thing you had to an actual name and begged a favor. Admittedly, there’s one really interesting surprise in here, but that’s not much compared to the ninety minutes of more of the same I just sat through.
The Screenhead Ten Scale gives a dismissive back of hand “bah” to Cameron Romero’s inaugural horror outing and gives it a three out of ten for managing to get one good surprise in there–that I won’t bother to spoil–but depends way too much on last names and nepotism to get where it is.
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For people who loved the horror movies like “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, brace yourself for something along that niche in “The Unborn” that is now available on Blu-Ray and DVD.
From the co-writer of The Dark Knight and the producers who brought you The Texas Chainsaw Massacre comes a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in this chilling thriller that will haunt your soul. Writer and director David Goyer (The Dark Knight, Blade: Trinity) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves.
Own two versions on one disc, including the unrated cut too terrifying for theaters. Starring Odette Yustman (Cloverfield), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight, Harry Potter film series), Cam Gigandet (Twilight), Meagan Good (Saw V, Stomp the Yard) and Jane Alexander (Terminator: Salvation, The Ring).
Enter a world of unrelenting evil as terror finds a new form in The Unborn. In this shocking supernatural thriller, a young woman, Casey (Yustman), is plagued by chilling dreams and tortured by a demonic ghost that haunts her waking hours. Her only hope to break the debilitating paranormal curse is in an exorcism with spiritual advisor Sendak (Oldman).
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