Binge Movie Aftertaste – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Retrospective w/ Matthew Goudreau and Mik Duffy: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
The dawn of horror as we know it may be the best way I have seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre described. Directed and co-written by a then upcoming filmmaker from Texas named Tobe Hooper, the original 1974 film tore through audiences and has had such a lasting impact on horror culture that filmmakers such as Rob Zombie and Eli Roth constantly cite it as their inspiration. But with three sequels and a myriad of remakes and retellings in its path, does the series deserve its place on the upper echelon of horror film series ever made? That’s what me, Matthew Goudreau, and Mik Duffy are here to discuss.
After hitting a snag with the overblown Pearl Harbor and then pay dirt with megahit Bad Boys II, director Michael Bay decided it was time to scale things down a bit. He and a few friends of his formed Platinum Dunes, a studio originally built around upstart directors making low budget horror films, but eventually made into remake central. In order to start the studio on the right financial foot, Bay and company shelled almost $10 million into the 2003 remake of a film many -including all three of us- consider a classic. But that original podcast seems to be the last time we have all agreed, and this podcast continues that tradition. Join me, Matt, and Mik as we all look at both Bay entries into the Leatherface saga. And both films -the 2003 remake and 2006 prequel- are argued about at length, and we decide whether we will take chainsaws to each other by the end.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)
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