After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 17 nominations
John Larroquette
- Narrator
- (voice)
Scott Martin Gershin
- Leatherface
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Harry Jay Knowles
- Victim On a Silver Platter
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA then-unknown John Larroquette provided the narration in the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Despite becoming a distinguished actor in the years since, he happily agreed to reprise his role for the remake.
- GoofsThe young group is listening to "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd in the van at the beginning of the film. The film takes place between 18 and 20 August 1973. The song was not released until 1974, featured on the band's album, "Second Helping".
- Quotes
Sheriff Hoyt: I smell bullshit.
- Alternate versionsOriginally was slapped with an 'NC-17' rating by the MPAA, cuts were made for an 'R'.
- Hitchhiker's gunshot suicide reduced blood and brain guts, and a severed ear landing on Pepper's lap.
- Morgan's death reduced a wide shot of chainsaw cutting him from below, blood splattering on the floor and his insides falling between his legs.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Motograter: Suffocate (2003)
- SoundtracksSweet Home Alabama
Written by Edward King (as Edward C. King), Ronnie Van Zant and Gary Rossington
Performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Courtesy of MCA Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Featured review
Horrors have a bad reputation for poor sequels and bad remakes, which is why when people heard there was a remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the general thought was that they would be butchering the classic(excuse the pun).
However this is a terrifying, shocking, emotional thrill of a movie. It may not be up to the standards of the 1970s version, but to be fair, nothing is. The acting is quite well done. The film takes advantage of the time its being made in and the budget, with this version having much better production values, its much more gory but not at the cost of story telling.
The realism is superb and the movie is, at times, as sad as it is scary due to the emotional torture of the characters, i'm sure many people will say its not as good as the original but it could have been a lot worse
However this is a terrifying, shocking, emotional thrill of a movie. It may not be up to the standards of the 1970s version, but to be fair, nothing is. The acting is quite well done. The film takes advantage of the time its being made in and the budget, with this version having much better production values, its much more gory but not at the cost of story telling.
The realism is superb and the movie is, at times, as sad as it is scary due to the emotional torture of the characters, i'm sure many people will say its not as good as the original but it could have been a lot worse
- barrymurphy23
- Oct 15, 2006
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- La masacre de Texas
- Filming locations
- Taylor Meat Company, Taylor, Texas, USA(Blair Meat Company)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $9,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $80,571,655
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $29,100,000
- Oct 19, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $107,364,583
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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