This is one of the weirdest, unexpected sequels since Halloween 3. The film opens with a quick flashback and picks up exactly where the last one leaves off. The police, along with some vigilantes torch the Sawyer house with the murdering cannibals inside. A little girl is saved and raised by one of the vigilantes. Now that she is grown, (Alexandra Daddario) Heather discovers she is adopted and the sole heir to the Sawyer plantation in Texas.She travels there with 3 college mates and picks up a person along the way, because the unwritten code of a Texas Chainsaw movie is the hitchhiker/rider. As it turns out, she is not the only heir left and you come to sympathize with the cannibal with a chainsaw.The film has its share of severed bodies, blood, and gore. The 3D action is climaxed with a chainsaw tossed at the camera. Remember this is a sequel. Keep the expectations low.Parental Guide: F-bombs. Implied sex. No nudity. Tania Raymonde bra/panties. Alexandra Daddario open shirt cleavage...and how did her shirt become buttoned shut once it was ripped open?

You know... there's varying levels of the concept of 'bad.' There's just plain-old bad. There's enjoyably bad. There's unintentionally bad. All sorts of different ways that simple, three-letter word can be used to give meaning to something. But then there's a film like "Texas Chainsaw 3D", a 2013 semi-sequel that seeks to continue the story right where the original Tobe Hooper masterpiece left off. It had potential. It really did. It boasted a high-concept story. It sought to connect itself to the iconic first film. It held the promise of top-notch modern day effects. It had so much going for it. And how did it end up? It ended up a very special type of that delightful term 'bad.' The type of 'bad' that's almost indescribable. Unforgivable, even. And most certainly unforgettable. "Texas Chainsaw 3D" emerges as not only indisputably the worst film of the franchise... but also indisputably one of the worst mainstream horror movies of all time. Yes. It is indeed THAT type of 'bad.'Days after the events of the original massacre, the dreaded Sawyer family is all but completely wiped out in an act of vigilante justice, with seemingly the only survivor being a now-orphaned infant. Adopted by the same men who killed her family, decades later in the present day, the child- now named Heather (Alexandra Daddario)- has grown up and learns that she was adopted. What makes it all the more confusing is that despite the fact she should be in her 40's by this point, she's very clearly in her early 20's and acts as such. Which is just one of literally dozens of glaring plot-holes. But I digress... Heading out to Texas with a group of friends upon learning of her biological grandmother's supposed death, Heather is eventually confronted by her deadly past and encounters her relative 'Leatherface'- who begins to pick them off one-by-one. However, a series of troubling events will make Heather question her allegiances and motivations, as she is pulled between her current life and the call of her true lineage...Oh, boy...To get it out of the way, it's almost impossible to view this film without picking up on the unending plethora of errors, mistakes and general displays of incompetence that pop up in virtually every single scene. From the mind-numbing timeline issue of having the modern-day protagonist being in her 20's despite having been born in the early 1970's... to laughably inept digital effects that look like they were ripped from a 1993 TV-movie... to the fact that the opening sequence actually paints the evil cannibal Sawyer clan as innocent victims of rednecks gone rogue... every since facet of "Texas Chainsaw 3D" is frankly devastatingly poorly conceived and handled. It's beyond hack-filmmaking in its execution. It's something else entirely. Something far worse. I genuinely do not know what was going through director John Luessenhop's head during production. How could he knowingly make something so fundamentally and insultingly broken without realizing it? Does he really have so little respect for his audience that he thinks we can't even do simple math?Even beyond these unforgivable mistakes, the rest of the film is a complete and utter failure. Not a single darned thing works. Visually, the film is uninspired and drab, with flat lighting and poorly framed shots that don't inspire tension or even really flow well outside of one or two early sequences. And it's made all the worse by the over-gimmicky 3D that intrudes repeatedly throughout the film at an inconsistent pace. It's like they forgot the film was supposed to be in 3D, so they jarringly added a few random effects in here and there that instantly take you out of the movie because they clash with everything else. Again... beyond hack in its execution. The script by a small army of writers is a bland mish-mash of every cliché in the book, and filled to burst with nonsensical inconsistencies and insane contrivances that aim to raise the bar on the series... but only succeed in tanking it over and over again.The cast is just ridiculous. The women are all over-sexualized and completely vapid thanks to the awful writing, and the actresses assembled seem completely inorganic in the roles. Lead Daddario in particular being woefully bad, inducing far too many uncomfortable cringes in the audience as she stumbles through the film. She's looks like an uncomfortable child in a school play. And Tania Raymonde is too far over-the-top as Heather's slinky friend Nikki, and quickly grates the nerves within seconds of appearing. Not that the men fare any better at all- mainly serving as either cheap eye-candy or blatant storytelling devices. Trey Songz falls completely flat as Heather's boyfriend in a one-note performance that shows the dangers of stunt-casting semi-popular singers in film roles. Paul Rae is unintentionally hilarious as a conniving mayor who pops up now and again. And for the love of god... can we please stop trying to make Scott Eastwood a thing?"Texas Chainsaw 3D" is a cynical piece of trash from a cynical filmmaker who clearly does not care one bit that he's tanking horror royalty. There's no other way to say it. It's amongst the worst horror films I've ever seen and it insults the audience again and again, all while destroying the integrity of that classic original film. It's a 1 out of 10. Avoid like the freaking plague.

So this film bills itself as the direct sequel to the original 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, even starting the film using archive footage from that film then continuing it on with a siege at the Sawyer house.The stand off at the house at the start really reminded me of the start of The Devils Rejects but not as well executed. The film then jumps about 20 years to a girl finding out she has inherited a house by a grandmother she didn't know she had so goes on a road trip to Texas with her friends to see it.I went into this film with really low expectation not expecting much at all but I quite enjoyed watching it but it is a very dumb film. So don't go into this film expecting a horror classic like the original. A couple of the dumb moments being the friends leaving a hitchhiker they just met in the house while they go shopping or how the main girl is in a crop top type thing for most of the film so her stomach is always on show and even when given a shirt to put on she only does up the top couple of buttons so her stomach is still on show constantly, even gets her shirt ripped fully open to then only do the top couple of buttons up again, it's very weirdly off putting. The acting is all OK nobody too awful, the story is alright, the first act is very normal predictable stuff, the middle I found quite interesting and then the final act was OK for me personally but it will definitely rub a lot of people up the wrong way I think. Final thoughts being quite enjoyable to watch but nothing special or memorable just don't take it too seriously. 6/10

When I heard about this sequel, I assumed it was a follow-up to the remake series started in 2003, in fact it is a direct follow-up of the original 1974 film, ignoring the events of the original second, third and fourth films, I gave it a chance, directed by John Luessenhop (Takers). Basically it continues straight after the events of the original, where victim Sally has escaped from a chainsaw wielding maniac (originally Gunnar Hansen), the police and townspeople have surrounded the Sawyer farmhouse in Newt, Texas. Corrupt Mayor Burt Hartman (Paul Rae) leads the group who want revenge against the family who aided the murders of Jedidiah "Jed" Sawyer, aka Leatherface (Dan Yeager), the arsonists who burn down the house are praised as heroes, the Sawyer family are presumed all dead. Unbeknownst to most townspeople, a surviving infant relative, Edith Sawyer, is found in the farmhouse, she is adopted by the Millers, Gavin (David Born) and Arlene (Sue Rock), who rename her Heather. Years later, Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario) is notified that her estranged grandmother, Verna Carson (Marilyn Burns), has died, leaving her everything, this is how Heather discovers she was adopted. Heather is travelling to Newt, Texas to collect her inheritance, she is joined by her boyfriend Ryan ("Simply Amazing" singer Tremaine 'Trey Songz' Neverson) and their friends, Nikki (Lost's Tania Raymonde) and Kenny (Keram Malicki- Sánchez), along the way they also pick up hitchhiker Darryl (Final Destination 2's Shaun Sipos). They arrive and Heather is given the keys to the family house by the Sawyer family attorney, Farnsworth (The Fugitive's Richard Riehle), Heather is excited about the property she now owns, she and her friends decide to stay the night. The group go to get supplies, leaving Darryl to look after the house, he begins to loot the house and breaks into a locked door in the cellar, Leatherface appears and kills him. Heather and her friends return to find the place ransacked, but they choose to ignore this, Kenny prepares dinner and finds the room where Daryl was killed, Leatherface attacks and impales him on a meat hook. Heading upstairs Heather finds a decomposed body, she is knocked unconscious by Leatherface before she can alert anyone, she wakes in Leatherface's room, but manages to escape, while Leatherface cuts Kenny in half with a chainsaw. Hearing the screaming and the chainsaw, Ryan and Nikki find Leatherface and flee, Heather is in the van and the three of them drive away, but Leatherface causes the van to crash, killing Ryan and leaving Nikki unconscious, Heather crawls out and escapes. Leatherface retreats as Heather runs through a nearby carnival, Sheriff Hooper (Space Jam's Thom Barry) questions her and realises Leatherface is still alive, Mayor Hartman sends Officer Marvin (James MacDonald) to the Sawyer house to kill Leatherface, the officer is startled by Nikki and accidentally shoots her, before Leatherface kills him. At the police station, Heather looks through files that have been left out, relating to the murders in 1974, she learns of her family's fate and flees, she is found by the Mayor's son Deputy Carl Hartman (Scott Eastwood), but in fact he is working as an accomplice to Mayor Hartman and Ollie (Ritchie Montgomery), who was part of the Sawyer house arson. Carl leaves, Heather is tied up in the slaughterhouse to lure Leatherface, before he is about to kill her, she convinces him that they are related, she is his cousin, he frees her, the men start attacking Leatherface. At first Heather runs for her life, but hearing his agony she decides to help her cousin, Heather kills Ollie with a pitchfork, while Leatherface uses his chainsaw to force Mayor Hartman into a meat-grinder. In the end Heather reads Leatherface a letter given to her, from Verna, telling her that Leatherface will protect her as long as she cares for him, without any words, she agrees to stay and confirms her loyalty to him. Also starring Bill Moseley as Drayton Sawyer, Gunnar Hansen as Boss Sawyer, Dodie L. Brown as Loretta Sawyer, David Bell as Bear Sawyer, John Dugan as Grandpa Sawyer / Grandfather and Samuel McKinzie as Young Leatherface. Daddario is absolutely gorgeous, she does fine as the victim who turns relative, Eastwood is okay in his short time, but it's a shame that Leatherface doesn't look like he did previously, his skin mask is unconvincing. This film was original released in 3D, but that doesn't do anything to the quality, I will agree with critics that it is predictable and rehashing stuff we've seen before, but I couldn't help but revel in the amount of gory violence and blood spill in this instalment, with chainsaws, meat hooks and many other nasty tools and methods, a not completely awful horror. Adequate!