2025 October Horror Challenge #10 "Texas Chainsaw 3D"

I’m the only person who likes this movie while everyone else hates it, so here are my 10 Reasons Why I love this movie. 1. Thom Barry is in it, and he plays a cop, which is what he’s good at, so I enjoyed seeing him do it. 2. Now we all know that two wrongs don’t make a right, but this movie really takes that idea and shows an extreme example of what that saying means. We all know the Sawyer family from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre are cruel and murderous and they like to chow down on unsuspecting trespassers, but does that mean they all deserve to be gunned down in cold blood? To be annihilated without the benefit of a trial? To have their children stolen from them and then to be slaughtered in cold blood so some other family could raise their child like it was nothing more than a stray puppy? That’s sick, and that’s not ok, and this movie has no problem calling that out. 3. This movie is really mean-spirited. I like my slashers mean. This movie doesn't waste time on building sympathy for the characters, it just gets right to the action and lets you decide on your own who to root for. I like that. You won’t find many people to root for, speaking of which. No one is very likeable in this movie. Except for Alexandra D’Addario’s character. Though I was surprised this movie made me feel sympathy for Leatherface. 4. Alexandra D’Addario is drop dead gorgeous in this movie. Seriously. I can’t believe her boyfriend cheated on her with that other girl. She’s so pretty. 5. There’s lots of cool gore in this movie. I mean, come on, they had to go there, and they definitely went there. 6. I grew up in a crazy family with a bunch of cousins and people in town looked down on us because we were different, so I definitely feel for the Sawyer family. 7. You gotta love when Heather says “Do your thing, cuz” at the end of the movie. Aww, what a touching family connection they have in the middle of the slaughterhouse. 8. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a grueling experience for me. That chainsaw was sounding in my head by the end of the movie and I just wanted to beg it to STOP. This movie can’t mimic the genius of the original, but it does its best to make the chainsow chase scene long and drawn out so by the end of it, you’re sick of the sound of the chainsaw. 9. One of my favorite movies is Cannibal Holocaust, and I get a lot of shit for that for a whole boatload of reasons, but it remains one of my favorite movies because it really made me think. I thought about the sensationalization of the news and how things are staged for our entertainment, and how when I’m consuming that media I’m feeding into the whole mess and giving it my tacit approval by watching it. So who are the real cannibals? This movie makes me think too, about two wrongs not making a right, and about how even murderers and their family members deserve justice and the benefit of a fair trial. If we torture them in retaliation, aren’t we just as guilty as they are? It gives me a lot to ponder. 10. Finally, I really enjoyed how we get vindication in the end of the movie so we can feel like a sick and twisted kind of justice was done. Not all movies can manage that one, and this one does it well. So there you have it. Those are the reasons I find myself loving this movie and coming back to it again and again.