Texas Chainsaw (2013)

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  • Opened January 4, 2013 
  • 1 hr 32 min
  • R | Strong grisly violence and language throughout
  • Decades ago, residents of Newt, Texas, long suspected that the Sawyer family was responsible for the disappearances of many people. When their suspicions finally were confirmed, vigilantes torched the Sawyer compound and killed every member of the family -- or so they thought. Much later, a young woman named Heather (Alexandra Daddario) learns that she has inherited Texas property from an unknown relative, and she is unaware of horrors that await in the mansion's dank cellar. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Bill Moseley
  • Director: John Luessenhop
  • Genres: Horror

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

A sign of how desperate the series' producers have become is that the big twist here is that Leatherface, the slobby butcher-boy demon in his mask of human skin, is now...the good guy. (That's a ''jump the chainsaw'' concept if ever there was one.) Read full review

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Austin Chronicle
| Marjorie Baumgarten

Stick around through the credits for an extra closing scene that leaves the door of Heather's new home wide open for a sequel. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter
| Frank Scheck

Unlike the restrained 1974 film which cleverly relied mainly on suggestion, this version piles on the graphic, often CGI-enhanced gore. Read full review

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Movie Nation
| Roger Moore

There's nothing thrilling about summarily dispatching everybody who isn't meant to survive to the credits, nothing entertaining about meathook, hatchet and chainsaw murdering that we've seen scores of times. Read full review

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A scene from "Texas Chainsaw (2013)."