It’s not like I’m shocked that Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Beginning is horrible, but I am shocked at how tasteless and horrendously filmed and acted it was, including how bad the special effects were.  The original movie by Tobe Hooper, who by the way put his name on this piece of trash movie surprisingly, was excellent in it’s camera shots and documentary like filming, and that’s what added to the creepiness of it.  Not only that, it really didn’t over do the violence, but more so alluded to the violence.

The Beginning isn’t gruesome, at least not in any realistic way since much of it looks fake, but it’s offensively stupid, with it’s backstory as to how Leatherface gets his mask, and how his adoptive masochistic “dad” got to be the sheriff of the podunk town.  With the first Chainsaw movie, I had a heavy feeling afterwards because I really felt as though those people died horrible deaths and that the story was somehow very real (it was supposedly based on a true story, by the way). 

With this one, I had a sick, heavy feeling after watching 2/3 of it (I skipped out and made my boyfriend watch the rest by himself, and I went in the other room and watched the first X Files movie, a much better choice), but that was because the characters were unredeeming, and really just made you want to go take a shower. 

My opinion on this movie is that it deserves an F minus if I were to grade it.  It was unoriginal, hurried, and lacked any sort of taste or style.  It was obvious and never clever, and wasn’t even scary, it just made you feel disgusted that you were wasting your time watching it.