This Day in Horror History: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING Opened in 2006
On this day in horror history, director Jonathan Liebesman’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning was unleashed into a theater near you back in 2006.
The sixth installment in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, the film originally sported the subtitle The Origin. New Line had to pay $3.1M more than expected to keep the rights to the franchise after Dimension made a large offer to buy it.
In the end, this might not have been the best choice as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning ended up snagging less than half of of what The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake scored with $51.8M on a budget of $16M.
The next installment, Texas Chainsaw 3D, was released in 2013.
Directed by Liebesman from a screenplay by Sheldon Turner and David J. Schow, this sequel was co-produced by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper (co-creators of the original film). It stars Jordana Brewster, Diora Baird, Matt Bomer, and R. Lee Ermey.
Chrissie (Jordana Brewster) and her friends (Matthew Bomer, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird) set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers (Lee Tergesen, Cyia Batten) harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie’s friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski) is learning the tools of terror.
The film sports a 13% on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is full of blood and gore, but not enough scares or a coherent story to make for a successful horror film.
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