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Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
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Andrew Bryniarski, Diora Baird, Jordana Brewster, Matthew Bomer, R. Lee Ermey ... (see more)

It's 1969. The conflict in Viet Nam has exploded to immeasurable proportions, and 18-year-old Dean Hill¹s number is up. Dean's brother Eric, who has already seen his share of combat, plans to take Dean to enlist in his beloved Marine Corps in hopes of keeping an eye on him rather than letting him ta... (read more)

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R, 1 hr. 24 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Liebesman
Release Date: Oct 06, 2006
DVD Release Date: Jan 16, 2007

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12 hours ago
A fairly good look into the mind of the demented killer Leatherface
2 days ago
How many chainsaws does it take to fail.....
3 days ago
I liked the remake from 2003, so kinda curious how this goes.
4 days ago
Wasn't necessary.And(spoiler)since everyone died in the end,made it more unnecessary.Just gross really...
5 days ago
pretty good not as scary as advertised

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1170 days ago
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Attention sadists: Demand more from your gorefests than this pro forma return to the well. Has mass murder ever been this dull?
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1180 days ago
Pete Hammond, Maxim
If you are into extremes this ultra-violent blood feast is probably just your ticket.
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1182 days ago
Kyle Smith, New York Post
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning misses everything that made the first one eat into your spine like meningitis.
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1184 days ago
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Reducing the iconic brute to a victim of childhood neglect and abuse? That's not, as The Beginning's tagline boasts, "The Birth of Fear." It's the death of it.
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