An average movie

To be honest, I have never been a huge fan of the original ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ but I still think it is a solid and good horror flick. Furthermore, this movie was a huge milestone for this genre. Obviously, it was only a matter of time before they would come up with a remake but I don’think it was necessarily a really bad idea. Indeed,  in fact, I don't have anything against remakes, the original concept of chainsaw cannibal killers remains pretty fascinating and a brand new version with a bigger budget combined with the modern movie techniques could have been interesting. But, unfortunately, like 99.9 % of the remakes out there, the makers added nothing and they didn’t make any improvements on the previous version in any way. What I really liked in the first one was the nice and slow progression until the violent climax. This time, the built up was slow, indeed, but also really boring and I didn't feel much tension during the whole thing. Then, the violent scenes were in fact toned down and they were therefore just very disappointing. Finally, all the scenes they added were rather useless. To conclude, it was not the worst thing I have ever seen but it was still pretty damned average and it is definitely an unnecessary remake.