I finally sat down and watched the updated version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre ... and it was in my opinion, better than the original "classic" TCM ... it was even better than TCM clone House of 1000 Corpses
I am wondering whether my evaluation of the new TCM is just a part of "having seen it all" in the horror genre ... and ultimately it now takes a lot to engage me with suspense
I am a bit jaded with the genre, as it has grown in my time on the earth from suspense with tasteful gore, to splatter, to SCREAM "smartifying" the genre, now back to the present day ...
I didn't really enjoy the original TCM because I found it very slow, it lacked action, it lacked the splash that I think people in my generation want from a horror movie -- it wasn't even that good psychologically
H1000C started off on a good foot, even if it took many pages from the TCM playbook ... then it got over the top with non-sensical images and sequences that reminded me a lot of the mid-portion of Hellraiser ... and yeah, it similarly didn't work and detracted from the overall value of film
New TCM takes very little from the original, and revisions it for a modern viewer ... I am not keeping this one as a classic of all-time, it is very entertaining for a modern horror movie ... I think that in general, the horror philes are moving to HK, Korean, and Japanese flix, and those are all fine and good as well ... but this one is a good, and entertaining rent if you have nothing better to do, not classic but a good time waster
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