Hey everyone my boomer friend and I have a youtube show where each week we choose a movie for us to watch. This week he chose "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" from 2022 directed by Daniel Garcia staring Sarah Yarkin (Melody), Mark Burnham (Leatherface), Elsie Fisher (Lila) and Jacob Latimore (Dante). 

**The Good-** 

Honestly not a lot to say here. They kept it short (under 90 minutes and even that was a stretch). A couple of the scenes (the scene in the party bus at least was entertaining)

**The Bad-** 

Man where to start, all of the characters are flat. The most egregious here is Richter (Moe Dunford) who is what I imagine someone who has never been to Texas or met a Texan would write. He is so cliched I took to calling him "Colton Longhorn Ranchhand" but he isn't the only person written as a jumbled mix of cliches. Melody is made out as your "typical progressive woman" she is abrasive and mostly unlikable (I rooted for leatherface for most of this movie). 

The most unforgiveable part of this movie was it's treatment of Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouere). She is the survivor from the 1974 original and we find out that in the 50 years since meeting Leatherface she has become a Texas Ranger and dedicated her life to tracking him down and killing him. She gets her opportunity to confront him while armed with a shotgun and just chokes. Not only that, Leatherface (who at this point has killed dozens of people) just walks past her and totally ignores her, it makes no sense for either character to behave this way.  She eventually confronts him in the middle of the street and gets a few shots off before ending up on the business end of the chainsaw. She does save our protagonists later while laying in a gutter resting on a bunch of garbage which is a good representation of how this movie treated the character. 

**The Verdict**

I HATED this movie. Its rare when a horror movie in a well known franchise manages to not only be bad but also RUINS the previous movies. A glaring example of this is the final shot of the movie where Lila escapes while her sister Melody is brutally murdered by Leatherface. It is attempting to recreate the iconic scene from the first movie where Sally escapes Leatherface in the bed of a pickup. Instead Lila is seen through the sunroof of a self driving Tesla and it just falls flat. I ended up giving it 0/5 (normally my lowest is 1/5 but I was pissed at what they did to the character of Sally Hardesty). My Boomer friend (of course) loved it and you can hear his thoughts in the video. Thanks

Daniel Garcia's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" 2022 movie review