The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film) Totally Explained

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a horror film remake of the 1974 film of the same name. The film was directed by Marcus Nispel and produced by Michael Bay.

Plot

The movie starts out with police footage of the crime, with police doing a walkthrough of the basement. On August 18 1973, five college kids, Erin, Kemper, Pepper, Andy, and Morgan, are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas. The kids are returning from a trip to Mexico, where Kemper, unbeknownst to his girlfriend Erin, bought marijuana. As they're driving through Travis County, Texas, they see a girl about their age walking in the road. After nearly hitting her, Erin insists that they pick her up, and they do so. She is in a hysterical state and goes on about a "really bad man". They try pulling over to get help but the girl becomes more hysterical. She then pulls a gun out from her dress, sticks it in her mouth and shoots herself. The five are shaken and go to find help. They are told to go to the Old Crawford Mill to find the sheriff. They arrive, and no sheriff is found. Erin and Kemper take off through the woods to find the sheriff's house, leaving the other three at the mill.
   Erin and Kemper come to a large house in a field. Erin is allowed inside by the owner, an old man in a wheelchair with no legs, but Kemper is told to wait outside. Kemper is fed-up with waiting and goes into the home where he's killed by Leatherface and dragged into the basement. The sheriff arrives at the mill and takes the body of the girl, and as Erin arrives she finds that Kemper is missing. Andy and Erin go back into the house looking for Kemper and the old man soon summons Leatherface, who taunts and chases them with his chainsaw. Erin escapes, but Andy's leg is severed and he's taken inside where he's hung on a meat hook in the basement.
   Erin arrives back at the mill in a panic. Erin tries starting the van, but it doesn't work. The sheriff soon shows up again, and he orders the three out of the van and forces them to the ground. He makes Morgan re-enact the suicide, and then kidnaps him, leaving the girls alone at the mill with the van. Leatherface shows up (wearing Kemper's face) and cuts Pepper in half with the chainsaw. After a game of cat and mouse chase, Erin is finally caught by Leatherface and taken to the basement.
   After searching around the sick and twisted place, Erin finds Andy. And In an act of sympathy, she kills him with a large knife. Soon after she finds Morgan. with the help of Jedidiah, who distracts Leatherface long enough for them to escape. They find an abandoned house and hide in the upper level of the house. Erin is caught by Leatherface, but then saved as Morgan sacrifices himself for Erin to escape. Morgan is hung on a chandelier before Leatherface splits him in two up the crotch, killing him. Leatherface continues the chase after Erin.
   Erin hides in a meat factory where she later chops off Leatherface's arm with a meat cleaver. Erin again escapes and after a mishap with a trucker, steals the sheriff's car and runs him over repeatedly, killing him. She also sees a family at the eatery that they were at in the beginning and a little child sitting in a chair. She watches as the mom goes away and then goes in to rescue the baby before it faces the same fate as her friends. As she drives on, Leatherface appears in the road, brandishing his chainsaw in his other arm. He slices the drivers' side door of the car but Erin is unharmed. Leatherface, who is irate, just breathes heavily from the blood loss and stares as the car drives away. The other half of the police footage is shown, and Leatherface kills the policemen and cameraman. The narrator comes on and says that Thomas Hewitt was never caught, and we're shown the only known image of Thomas Hewitt, the man they call "leatherface". The case remains open.

Deleted scenes

Four scenes had to be edited to avoid an "NC-17" rating and achieve an "R" rating:

More graphic shots of Morgan's death, featuring the chainsaw slicing into his crotch, and having blood and guts falling from him.
The hitchhiker's suicide having her ear flying off of her head and blood, and brain matter being more dark in color and more in amount flying out of her head.
A slightly more graphic death of Kemper: after getting hit with a sledgehammer, he drops to the floor gasping and convulsing with blood pouring out of his head.
Pepper's death originally showed the chainsaw cutting into her stomach.
Jedidiah was going to be killed by Leatherface by slicing his chainsaw through his back because he let Erin and Morgan go.

Connection to actual events

This film, like its original from 1974 and the films Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs (for example), was inspired by Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein. Gein did wear human skin, and made up furniture out of it such as lamps, but he acted alone and didn't use a chainsaw. The film's opening claims the events are factual, a use of the false document technique. (Filming of the first movie was from July 15, 1973 to August 14, 1973, while the opening narrative claims that the events took place on 18 August 1973.) Libraries in Burkburnett, Texas and nearby Wichita Falls regularly receive requests for copies of newspaper articles related to the events.

Cast

Jessica Biel as Erin Hardesty. Erin is Kemper's girlfriend, and they along with Morgan, Andy, and Pepper are heading to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas. Erin is the only survivor left in the end of the film (the Final girl).

Jonathan Tucker as Morgan. A friend of Erin, Kemper, and Andy, meets his death when Leatherface hangs him on a chandalier and puts his chainsaw up between his legs.

Erica Leerhsen as Pepper. A friend to Erin, Kemper, Andy, and Morgan. She quickly forms a relationship with Andy. Pepper is sawed in half by Leatherface.

Mike Vogel as Andy. Andy is also along for the ride, friends of the other 3. He is attacked by Leatherface and has his leg cut off right below the knee. He is hung on a hook in the basement, and is finished off when he requests that Erin relieve him of his pain.

Eric Balfour as Kemper. Kemper is Erin's boyfriend, the driver of the van with the others. He is the first one attacked by Leatherface, as he's killed when he's hit on the back of the head with a sledgehammer. His face is cut off, and used by Leatherface as a mask.

R. Lee Ermey as Sheriff Hoyt. Hoyt (whose real name is actually Charlie), a very heinous person, is the "sheriff" of Travis County. He assaults the teens and manipulates them into coming to the Hewitt house. He meets his death after Erin repeatedly runs over him while making her escape at the end of the film.

Andrew Bryniarski as Thomas Hewitt / Leatherface. Leatherface suffers from a facial disfigurement and skin disease that ate away most of his nose. He cuts off other human's faces and uses them for his own. In the climax of the film, Erin uses a meat cleaver to cut off his arm, but he survives the attack.

David Dorfman as Jedidiah. A small boy who prowls around the Hewitt house, and helps Erin escape from Leatherface.

Terrence Evans as Old Monty. Uncle Monty is either Charlie's or Luda May's brother and lives at the Hewitt house. He is in a wheelchair, as he's no legs.

Marietta Marich as Luda May Hewitt. She is Leatherface's adoptive mother who lives at the Hewitt house.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was released through Nitrus Records. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Album

Immortally Insane - Pantera

Below the Bottom - Hatebreed

Pride - Soil

Deliver Me - Static-X

43 - Mushroomhead

Pig - Seether

Down in Flames - Nothingface

Self Medicate - 40 Below Summer

Suffocate - Motograter

Destroyer of Senses - Shadows Fall

Rational Gaze - Meshuggah

Archetype (Remix) - Fear Factory

Enshrined by Grace - Morbid Angel

Listen - Index Case

Ruin - Lamb of God

Stay in Shadow - Finger Eleven

As real as it gets - Sworn Enemy

Five months - Core-Tez

Leatherface - Laaz Rockit The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Steve Jablonsky

Leatherface

He's A Bad Man

Erin And Kemper

Hewitt House

Driving With A Corpse

Kemper Gets Wacked/Jedidiah

Crawdford Mill

Interrogation

Andy Loses A Leg

You're So Dead

Hook Me Up

My Boy

Morgan's Wild Ride/Van Attack

Mercy Killings

Prairie House

Final Confrontation

Can't Go Back

Last Goodbye

DVD Release

The region 1 DVD was released on March 30, 2004 through Warner Home Video.Special features include audio commentaries, documentaries, deleted scenes, and an alternate ending and opening. Also included is the theatrical trailer, image galleries, tv spots, and an evidence file with crime scene photos.

Reception

Critical reception

The film has received almost unanimously negative reviews from critics. Roger Ebert gave it a rare zero stars rating, branding it 'vile and cynical', and pleading with his readers 'not to waste 98 minutes of your lives'.

Box office

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released in North America on October 17, 2003 in 3,018 theaters. It grossed $10,620,000 on its opening day and concluded its North America opening weekend with $28,094,014. It ranked number one at the box office.The film opened in various other foreign countries and grossed $26,500,000, while the North American gross stands at $80,571,655, bringing the worldwide gross to $107,071,655.

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