The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 Reboot) KILL COUNT

[Music] welcome to the killcount where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies I'm James Agee nice and today we're looking at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake released in 2003 we've covered a lot of remakes on this channel a couple of which were also produced by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes just like this one was but you may be surprised to learn that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was the first major reboot of the horror genre sure there have always been remakes and some of them came out before this movie but this was the first reboot of a major horror franchise and it be followed the next year by Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead after that it was off to the remake races and we got a solid decade of non-stop reimagining zuv horror classics although the tide has been stemmed in recent years they do in fact continue to this very day remakes can be a mixed bag and I notoriously have a reputation of being pretty hard on them after all originality is something I put a high value on and I often don't see the point of remaking something that's already been made but horror fans tend to like this movie and I can agree that as far as remakes go it's not bad it does a nice job balancing nods to the original with fresh new ideas and Arlee ermese performance as the nasty sheriff Hoyt feels right at home in the pantheon of sadistic Sawyer family members although on that note for whatever reason the Sawyer's have been renamed the Hewitt's for this timeline this remakes respect for the original is further reinforced by the fact that tobe Hooper and Kim Hankel who wrote the first film serve as co-producers here and Daniel Pearl who shot the original returns as cinematographer not only did this movie kick off the era of reboots it also started the trend of having super intense gore and violence in the genre in contrast to the more team targeted films that had come out in the wake of scream remember this was actually before saw in hostel which came out in 2004 and 2005 respectively so audiences weren't exactly used to the dirty bloody scenes this remake wanted to show that still I can't bring myself to love this movie even though it looks great and has solid practical effects it ends up feeling like a parade of brutality without any of the dark humor or documentary like grittiness that made the original so interesting it's fine enough but ultimately feels to me like an unnecessary taught me if you've heard this one before well Leatherface in his new hewitt family get more kills than the Sawyer's and slaughters of yesteryear let's find out and get to them the movie begins with faux gritty footage of a crime scene and some familiarity namely John Larroquette reprising his role as intro voiceover guy for them an idyllic summer afternoon became a nightmare and you know it you love it that jumping jack flash bulb sound effect larroquette talks about evidence collected at the hewitt house and cues up some footage of a police officer doing a crime scene walkthrough he had take a look at that watch mofo cuz it's time for a title car it's 1973 apparently even though Jessica Biel is the most 2003 looking woman I've ever seen oh well at least this dudes being faithful with that disco Stu style Beale plays Aaron a run-of-the-mill final girl who's got a boyfriend named Kemper who looks like he's on leave from the Nostromo right now they're on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert with her friends Morgan and Andy that dirty Owen Wilson fella over there who's currently swapping spit and sweat with pepper a hitchhiker who they've only just met you know a Chinese after a bunch of bubble blowing and pinata packing and recreating shots from the original they nearly hit a woman who's walking in the middle of the road muttering to herself that she wants to get away she wants to fly away yeah yeah yeah concerned for her safety they adopt her into their hippie mobile where she proves to be a real bummer of a band guest after she makes them pull over saying they're going the wrong way things follow this franchise's hitch-hiker rule of thumb and managed to get real weird real fast like whoa how'd she have that thing up there the whole time we just saw her stand up a second ago and that gun didn't fall out I don't even think I want to know and I kind of want to know though we don't learn anything from the hitchhiker though he goes with one last eerie proclamation she adds herself to the killcount in a shockingly violent death that ends up having one of the absolute coolest shots I've ever seen in a horror movie the friggin camera dollies out backwards through the hole in her head are you kidding me god damn that is an awesome shot and probably the best part of this movie even cooler is that they did the whole effect practically actor Laurin German used an air gun in her mouth while they shot a blood gun off behind her head and the camera actually went through a dummy made by Greg Nicotero that also had to move on a track they had to try a whole bunch of times to get the tape but director Marcus misspelled insisted they get it and I'm so glad that he did everyone rightfully freaks out about what they just saw and reluctantly drive the body to a gas station slash barbecue joint slash general store where they report the suicide - Luda may the proprietor here who really needs to invest in some fly paper ain't no one gonna buy her pig head if it's covered in flies Luda may calls the town sheriff who says that he wants to meet the kids at a nearby mill the hell sheriff these kids ain't post mace for corpses post living mates no corpse mates the directions to the sheriff's meetin mill involved driving over a field and through the woods wait is it to grandmother's mill we go grandmother's mill appears to be as dead as Grandma Sawyer which is to say very well the kids wait for this mystery sheriff to arrive something runs by them in the background they go to see what it was only to find a possum in a locker and I normally wouldn't mention something so inconsequential but I love the story I learned about them shooting this apparently they just got a possum and expected it to deliver the scares right away but every time they tried to get the shot the damn thing could only be adorable instead of scary haha what a little cutie the kids keep looking and eventually they find the dirtiest little boy I have ever seen outside a coal mine this kid named Jedediah can you walk like a person Jed no oh that's okay hit me oh yeah we promised little buddy as long as you don't attack us with the bone art you've got hanging around Jedediah tells them that the sheriff is probably at home getting drunk but since the roads don't go to his house Erin and Kemper have to walk through some beautifully lit woods to get there instead director Marcus misspelled has a painting background and it really comes through in these shots the sheriff's house they find is actually totally fucking awesome from its stark architecture to the menacing wave Daniel Pearl shoots it honestly this is one of the coolest looking horror houses we've seen in quite some time I mean it's no Elm Street house but what could ever be right in contrast to their 1974 counterparts these kids don't break into the house all willy-nilly and instead the door is answered by guy named Monty who's a double leg amputee Monty says that nope champ don't live here dirty boy must have lied and then allows Aaron and only Aaron into his house to call the police station the police station tells her that the sheriff will be at the old mill soon keep your damn pants on after Aaron's call when she hears Monty shouting for help looks like he fell over in the middle of drawing himself a mud bath at least I hope that's mud you Monty takes advantage of Aaron's kindness the nasty old man while Kemper gets sick of waiting on the porch mom on board now I want to come inside he walks through a house that production designer Greg Blair dressed according to Ed Gein crime scene photos but to me it still doesn't feel as depraved as the original movies production design done by Bob burns tempers tours ended when Leatherface appears and sprays his blood across the TV then drags him away to recreate a classic moment although Kemper was still kicking right there I'm gonna put him on the kill count now because the next time we see his face will be one leather is hard at work turning it into a mass isn't it great when you find a hobby that you can really throw yourself into also it's during this whole mech scene later on that we get to clearly see leathers unmasked adult face for the one and only time in the series looks like he wears a mask here because he has a skin condition remakes just love explaining stuff that doesn't really need explaining also while we're talking about leather face in this movie he's played by six foot five bodybuilder Andrew bryniarski who was super into the role I was born to wear the mask there's nobody is gonna be as scary as me what I could bring to this character it kind of sounds like he might have been a little too into it actually you gotta play another face was born to wear the mask there was some weird stuff between him and Gunnar Hansen - the way Bronowski describes it Hansen was cool to him on set for these prequel movies the started throwing shade around in 2013 when Hansen was working on Texas Chainsaw 3d and I did actually notice and the special features for that movie that Manson was kind of talking shit this is the Andrew Bronowski slams the door this is the original slams the door oh okay it was actually such an acrimonious relationship that when Gunnar Hansen died in 2015 the only response Andrew Bernard he had at first was a Facebook post saying boohoo wow that was all really weird to learn the noise from Kemper's attack gets Aaron's attention and she leaves Monti to go look for her boyfriend eventually leaving the house after she's unknowingly spied upon by Leatherface and his favorite sound effect back at the mill the sheriff has finally arrived and let me tell you something son sheriff Hoyt is one mean motherfucker as if earlier Me's deep crevasse frown and messy spittin didn't tip you off there he's a suspiciously scary dude both in the way he talks to the kids Scooby you mind getting the fuck out of my way son and the way he'd be looking at that body his solution is simple saran wrap and he orders Andy to help him was the same kind of discipline you'd expect from a drunk dad in the 50s I ain't gonna bite you she's entering a goddamn doornail get a hold of her pick her up after being real gross and sexual with the body with dialog that our lee Ermey was able to ad-lib because of course I'm no stranger to bad guys I play bad guys pretty often it's a lot of fun to play the bad guy Hoyt has Andy and Morgan carry the corpse to his police car and dump it in his truck you know standard operating police procedure protect and serve that's what we do he helped that's some good polies after he leaves Erin finishes her second unexpected journey through the woods and gets back to the mill she was hoping to find Kemper there but since he isn't the kid set out to look for it all they find instead are bunch of abandoned cars some human teeth like this The Blair Witch or some shit and a picture of the hitchhiker who killed herself sealed inside a jar full of well let's just call it lemonade and think no more about it because these people are hot teens in a horror movie they decide to split up again with Morgan and pepper returning to the van while Eric and Andy go to look for Kemper some more they get back to that exceedingly well shot house and decide that Erin will distract Monte so Andy can sneak inside that gives us a half a story rendering well in one regard at least of the famous low angle shot from the original while Andy has way too much fun ninja into the house you know he's humming his own theme music like Kronk while he's doing this he comes across the kitchen slash meat hanging slash chicken room where they keep their best human skin pantyhose and he's majorly bummed when he finds out they don't have any good snacks in the fridge god no so needy or nothing and he causes a loud ass kitchen crash and Erin runs inside to make sure he's okay he is for now but Monty says that's not gonna be true for long turned you so digged you don't even know it sho'nuff behind door number 1 is lana face and just like that we're back in this shit Erin gets away and leaves Andy to run the first chainsaw chase which includes a solid action vid involving a lug wrench and a beautiful detour through that old horror movie classic sheets on a clothesline eventually Leatherface cuts the race and Andy short by chainsawing through a shin inside the Hewitt house after it gets dark Leatherface kills the injured Andy off the ground and makes a sacrifice to the entity by sticking that boy on a meat hook and sure we've all seen that before but I'll tell you what we haven't seen leather face salting a stump and wrapping it up like a porterhouse for supper number 49 your order is up Erin gets back to the van which very inconvenient Lee won't start to them when sheriff Hoyt suddenly reappears she mistakenly gets her hopes up thinking he can help but Hoyt ain't about to help a van full of hedonist stoners you kids taking drugs he gets them out of the vehicle and makes them lie on the ground then scares the piss out of them by shooting near their heads well he's either fuckin with them or he's got shit for aim either way peppers lost all hope boy takes Morgan's died the ban and torments him by making him reenact a hitchhiker suicide getting a little sexual with it while he does Joey huh she do it it's an intense scene and actor Jonathan Tucker actually made himself throw up for multiple tanks of him shoving the gun further into his mouth when he gets momentarily distracted Morgan manages to turn the gun around on him but looks like the sheriff saw that comment oh you saw in big dudu dis time Morgan who takes the band's keys and hauls Morgan off for attempted cop killing maybe write yourself a DUI while you're at it hi get you in that model cuz what else are you gonna smash against Morgan's face oh that was really rude yeah it really was dude and not in the fun demented way like Drayton with his poking stick you're just fuckin scary man they get to the Hewett house still lit like it's a Coachella tent and Hoyt engages in some standard police brutality as he-man handles Morgan into the house back at the mill Aaron is trying to hotwire the van with skills she learned in juvie when Leatherface attacks them with skills he learned in chainsaw junior high he graduated top of his class pepper makes a run for it and does her best Donkey Kong to slow him down but the barrels don't stop this barrel-chested lad who catches up to her and cuts her to the ground he kills her by cutting her in half just off-screen which is a pretty bland kill for pepper could have definitely used more seasoning the feathers from peppers jacket filled the air as Leatherface looks back towards Aaron while wearing tempers face very kiriza partly because of the face partly because of the feathers now it's Aaron's turn to make a run for it and begin another chainsaw chase through the wood wroom wroom wroom we've all seen this before Aaron ends her lap at a trailer home where she's led inside by a sickly looking woman named Henrietta and her presumed mother known only as the tea lady why is she the tea lady cuz this at etrailer mutha fuckas achievements yeah except like cannibalism but from what these ladies are saying they're not worried about any chainsaw attacks in fact when they talk about Leatherface they sound like friggin Chelsea poor sweet boy Henrietta forces Aaron to drink some of her famous tea and then goes to tend to a crying baby hoho she's a colicky one huh Erin realizes why that baby's such a poopy pants when she sees a picture of her with a different family it's not your baby how very clever of Erin if only she hadn't let them pour tea down her gullet then maybe she'd be able to get out of there but she did so she isn't live and let learn I suppose she's woken up by Sheriff Hoyt pouring beer on her face and we see the main members of the Hewitt family all together at last there's Hoyt his momma Ludum a that woman from the general store her brother Monty the guy who was sealing up that Beale booty in the bathroom and muta mais grandson Jedediah the amazing dirt wonder and of course there's Leatherface whose real name in this timeline is Thomas Brown Hewitt Ludum a yells at Aaron while young little Jed begs his grandma not to hurt the nice lady from seventh heaven Leatherface throws Erin into the basement which has now flooded for no other reason I can think of than to have jessica biel be all wet wonder if that was a suggestion by producer Michael Bay after he had her wash his car some shit Aaron finds Andy pretty much crucified on a meet oh and in fact for this scene after Mike Bogle had to endure five hours hanging up on a painful harness system out maybe you could help him off that thing Erin yeah just like although God never mind now it's worse yeah you should be Andy begs Erin to put him out of his misery and when she finally agrees to do it she goes about it in the dumbest way possible she just stabs him in the gut come the fuck on who would ever be that dumb at least aim for the heart you can still take a shower in his blood all the same Erin oh he won't be dying a torturously slow death Oh Erin then finds morgan having a spot of tubby time and looks like he's still alive too she helps him out as Jedediah peers and tells them to follow him to safety but right as they start to oh it's fucking Leatherface were in his chainsaw blade and chasing them through this narrow underground corridor Erin and Morgan managed to escape Leatherface and the subterranean meat cellar with a little assistance from Jedediah gu dirty boy they flee the Hewitt house and limp their way into a nearby building but when they're unable to find any exit I guess nobody's repaired any generators Aaron has to stuff Morgan into a cubby and then hide on her own since Leatherface has followed them inside and is eager to make his family proud he hole punches the wall to get at her and is all ready to cut her in half with this chainsaw when Morgan stops him with a body slam they wrestle around for a while and Aaron tries to help but Leatherface wins the handicap match and pins Morgan up on a spiky chandelier Ojeda improvised a meat hook Tommy boy Leatherface kills Morgan by taking his saw up between his legs while Aaron scrambles away Aaron's back on the track and although this is like the bazillion chainsaw chase we've seen at least Daniel Pearl gives us some pretty handsome shots to look at while we watch the same old action which includes Leatherface falling and cutting himself just like you did on the road at the end of the first movie Aaron makes it to an actual meatpacking plant which is great because we always hear so damn much about slaughterhouses in these movies that it's about time we see one in person especially if it's replacing the overdone dinner scene my only complaint is that apparently the Hewitt's didn't own this meatpacking plant because if they did they could have been the Hewett Packers Leatherface follows Aaron into the plant chasing her through rooms full of Hellraiser hooks and freezers full of dead meat and she thought they smelled bad on the outside also since production couldn't afford that many slabs of fake meat those are actual cow carcasses they're using here probably not the best experience for Jessica Biel who's a longtime vegan and to make matters worse for her she's unable to get through this chase scene without getting needlessly wet again Tamm girl you must be freezing in there Aaron arms herself with a cleaver and hides in a locker as Leatherface walks around looking like a badass yeah that's a pretty cool fucking leather face shop her locker camping strategy works and she's able to jump out with the cleaver and hack into leather faces are she hats the thing right off in fact and leaves leather face behind with only one arm on the one he lost was his chainsaw and arm too that's gonna affect his livelihood err and Aaron escapes into the wet wet night and Flags down a semi-truck for help and in a rare moment of relief from the paranoid watchers among us the driver doesn't end up being a Sawyer or Hewitt but he does get weirded out by there and who mutters like that hitchhiker did and similarly screams when she sees that they're headed back to the BBQ store when the driver pulls off and part sentenced or Aaron gets out and runs around back where she sees through the window the Hewitt's altogether fawning over that stolen baby of henrietta the truck driver inadvertently distracts them when he asks for help with the whole aaron situation and while he talks to the Hewitt's aaron snatches the baby up sorry Henrietta but you know what they say about babies easy come easy go as Aaron Hotwire's another vehicle sheriff Hoyt approaches the semi-truck and some sneaks II hobbitses editing leaves you thinking that he's about to open that door to find Aaron but she's not in the truck instead she hot-wired a sheriff's car and runs him over like a motherfucker with it right and she's all about that double tap to wait scratch that she's going for the triple tap damn one two three he is out Aaron drives away with that stranger maybe hopefully to help in it and not sell it on the dark web or anything and although Leatherface gives her a parting glance with this chainsaw it's really only so he can half-assedly recreate the famous final shot from the original the movie ends with the return to that framing device of the police footage even though it feels entirely unnecessary at this point or rather it would accept it gives us two more kills after Leatherface pops out and kills the cop on camera as well as the cam op cop the crime scene was not properly secured by travis county police to investigating officers were fatally wounded that day see the proof is in the lyric add two more kills for the cap thanks John and you know loved the face how many kills did the Hewitt's do it to it let's find out at the numbers eight people died in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake beating out the original thanks to those last two kills the victims consisted of two women five men and one unknown cam op though statistically he'd probably be a dude with the runtime of 98 minutes we had a kill on average every 12.25 minutes I'll give the golden chainsaw for coolest kill to the hitchhiker for sure it's a pretty promising start to the movie what would the shock of it all and of course that kick-ass shot the only thing I don't love is the way she was holstering that gun seems kind of silly to me - almost ready for lamest kill we'll go to Andy because I still can't believe Aaron decided to mercy kill her friend with a slow ass motherfucking gut stab come on and that's it The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot came out in 2003 and earned enough money that a prequel was made to give us more of the Hewitt family I'll look at that next week but until then I'm James a JD's this has been the kill cow thanks a lot for watching the kill count for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake I want to thank a bunch of patrons this week like Jessica Deora Erin Cornelia Allen Crazy Horse is a johnson anthony bjorn green and papa steve by time you're watching this I'll be in Las Vegas celebrating my birthday I'm 30 I'm old how did you feel about the TCM remake let me know in the comments thanks everybody be good people

Channel: Dead Meat

Views: 9,414,573

Rating: 4.917522 out of 5

Keywords: horror, dead meat, movies, scary, films, kills, kill count, body count, james a. janisse, jaj, pine commander boogie, texas chainsaw, massacre, reboot, remake, new, series, franchise, leatherface, marcus nispel, jessica biel, jonathan tucker, mike vogel, eric balfour, r lee ermey, erica leerhsen, prequel, andrew bryniarski, hewitt, sawyer, michael bay, platinum dunes, DMKC

Id: FVsN2dhWiAQ

Length: 22min 3sec (1323 seconds)

Published: Fri May 10 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/blackiechan99]

slow ass mothafuckin' gut stab

[u/penis-muncher785]

ah a man of culture with dead by daylight references

[u/Blackadder5]

Calling it right now, James is going to make a decisive strike reference in next week's kill count. People who have seen the film will know which scene it will probably be in.

[u/Jasonv513]

This film was made the year I was born and it’s one of my dad’s favourite horror films so I’m excited to watch this kill count when I get home

[u/AnnualThrowaway]

I probably have a soft spot for this movie because I was in high school when it came out, but I still think it's good.

Some seriously dumb early naughts tropes littered through the movie, though.

[u/[deleted]]

I like this version of TCM

I think it’s the quintessential TCM movie in terms of what people want to see when they want to watch a TCM movie (most don’t really watch it for the dark humor or commentary). Leatherface is brutal, the family is weird, you get some brutal kills, the camera work and setting is well done and creepy, etc.

[u/Khalbrae]

Legal Streaming Availability:

USA: StreamingNetflix

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Canada: zilch

UK: Also Zilch but Justwatch thinks that Next Generation is 2003 apparently.

[u/bikeruncode23]

Does anyone have a strong opinion on this movie? I saw this when I was 12 when it first came out and really loved it. Re-watched it a couple of weeks ago and while the atmosphere and production are great, it’s not really scary and has some pretty terrible dialogue and plot direction.

[u/YOUREABOT]

Remakes are either terribly awful or greatly awesome there’s no in between (in my opinion)