Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

In which I admit to liking a remade horror movie

Please do not think that I, in any way, condone the remake of classic films.  Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) does not count as a classic film.  It's important to the horror genre as you know it in today's cinema, in that it was amongst those first, earliest movies to really push the boundaries of what type of gore could, should, and would be shown to audiences given no restrictions by any sort of meaningful censorship body (not that the Motion Picture Association of America is any picnic, but in 1974 the MPAA was a far cry from the Hays Code, an actual government-sanctioned censorship board designed to tell filmmakers what they can and cannot do).


Anyway, that is the disclaimer.  I totally respect the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but come on -- the acting is bad, the effects are stale and old and Leatherface just needs to be a big guy who can waaaaaail, right?  If Tobe Hooper had the technology that today's filmmakers have, and a budget big enough to hire a Jessica Biel or an Eric Balfour, he would have made a movie very much like the 2003 version.

TCM2K3  (do you think I'm the first one to use that acronym?) paints with greens and blacks in very much the same way that Ridley Scott does in Alien.  It's moody, it's creepy, it's violent, and it's beautiful -- there!  I said it.  I like TCM2K3. 

Anyway, "Ghost Hunters" is still, like, on hiatus so my Wednesday nights are severely lacking in supernatural -- and I will NOT fucking watch "Ghost Hunters International" and/or "Paranormal State'.  (sigh) why can't things always stay the same every day of the week always?

I just realized that I'm in bed, under the covers, so my lack of supernatural may be affecting my uprightedness on Wednesday nights.

I should note this.