Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Will it live up to the original?
 

Being a big fan of the original I was hardly excited to hear that they were doing a remake. First of all remakes of classics (even horror classics) usually suck. And with the dearth of quality horror movies among the plethora of bad ones I deffinitely didn't expect the new TCM to come along and wow everyone. And the director is a video director, which isn't always bad, but his sparse resume happens to include something video thing for Janet Jackson. Not promising unless that sort of thing scares you.

Then the trailer came out (playing in fron of American Wedding here) and my friend couldn't stop talking about it.

Having finally seen the trailer, I admit it does look kind of cool (mainly because of some flash bulb effect they do) but I'm still not really confident that it will even be decent.

Any fans of the original out there? Seen the trailer? Thoughts?

never saw the first 1, but the flashbulb-camera thingy was cool

I'm not expecting much. There isn't much that can live up to the original.

I haven't seen the trailer yet but I will say that the original scared me to death. I made the mistake of watching it alone and well I ahve an over active imagination so I was pretty freaked out. I hope the new one stands up to the original. I did like the remake of House on Haunted Hill so maybe another remake will surprise me.

I have not seen the original, and probably won't till after I've seen the remake. THe trailer did look pretty enticing... From what I know of the original, the trailer made the remake to look a lot different.. am I wrong here?

This is the first I've heard of it. But I did just recently see House of 1000 Corpses, and that's probably as close to being a Chainsaw remake as you can get without actually getting the license.

I saw the trailer, I don't know if I will see the movie though..
Kinda looks like another teen-slasher "Scream" style..

Of course it wont. It is a good film because of its low budget feel, and real looking actors. Simply casting a crew of talentless jawlines and tits will not make it watchable. RIP.

House of 1000 Corpses was a lot like TCM... except with a really bad acid trip feeling to it... I liked it but its not for everyone....

I hated the idea until I saw the trailer. Excellent use of This Mortal Coil, R. Lee Ermey looks scary as hell, appears they slipped in a few new ideas. I'm willing to give it a shot.
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Damn, the didn't play the trailer for it before American Wedding when I went to see it.

Anyone seen the version with Matthew McCohnehey <Sp?> That's 2 hours of my life I want back.

This looks awesome. The original was scary as hell. I think the remake shows lots of promise. I hope it owns.

Friend of mine got to go see a pre-screening of it and said it was good, even better then the original in his opinion...

the original was just pure camp....fun, but camp nonetheless... interesting to see that they are remaking this and Stepford Wives.