Nerds That Geek Movie Review: 'Texas Chainsaw 3D'

Written by Scott Edwards

Family first is a motto that I have always said and will continue to do so until they prove me wrong. Making decisions for your family and not yourself if something that you learn with age and while every decision may not affect them, the big ones always do. It is important to keep this in the back of your mind, even if you don’t think it will make a difference in what you are doing, because in the long run, everything comes back full circle.
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Getting a call from a lawyer, Heather Miller finds out that her life up to this point has been nothing but a lie. Confronting her parents about being adopted, Heather does not know how to handle the news, but will have some time to figure it out. With a vacation already planned, Heather and her boyfriend Ryan and best friend Nikki, along with Kenny are going to make a quick stop in Texas to check out her new inheritance. Not knowing her actual family history, much less where she really came from, Heather is in for the shock of a lifetime when all the pieces are put together. 

Arriving at a massive gate to her grandmother’s property, Heather meets quickly with the lawyer and gets the keys to the house, along with a letter that should explain everything. Putting the letter aside and walking up the long pathway to her new house, Heather is shocked to learn that she has inherited a mansion. With her friends and hitchhiker all agreeing that the house is too much to pass up on for the night, Heather and her friends head into town to get some supplies while the hitchhiker decides to hang back and winds up unleashing the Sawyer family secret.

Returning to the house to see that it has been vandalized by the hitchhiker, Heather blames herself for being too nice to people, but that is short lived as Kenny finds out the ultimate fate of the man that tried to rob the house. Finding a strange man with a human face covering his own, Heather comes face to face with her family’s secret, yet has no idea why this is happening now. Being able to escape the basement of her new home, only to find that the chainsaw welding psycho will follow wherever she goes, Heather is let in on a little bit of history that the town has been trying to cover-up for years. Now she is not only being hunted by a psycho, but half of the police force as well, and Heather will be forced to make the decision of a lifetime, since if you cannot trust family, who can you trust?

Playing as a direct sequel to the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the movie did a good job in catching you up on what happened after Sally was able to escape the wrath of Leatherface, along with the family. Having a sort of reunion to start off the movie was very nostalgic and really set up for some fun storytelling from there on out. I must admit that the extracurricular activities between Ryan and Nikki really got me rooting for Leatherface to get back into action and the kills were just so bloody, it made me cheer in fear. With plenty of blood, some gun shots, a pitchfork, a couple of chainsaws, a family secret, a county fair and a town divided between good and evil, you may find yourself cheering for the wrong side when all is said and done. I must admit that I was a little shocked that anyone could have survived the opening scene of this movie, but very happy to see that Leatherface still does one thing right, putting family first. Stay Scared.

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