Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
Hollywood just can’t seem to let a franchise die and as such we get this.
Before watching I had heard bad things about this film, but it managed to exceed my negative expectations.
Firstly, the characters are all annoying as hell, they are clearly a caricature of the young social justice crowd judging everyone and act as though everyone who is not as comfortably suburban and middle class as them is a racist bumpkin. Honestly, if I were a southern American person I would find this film offensive.
Adding to this the film decides it is going to rip off the plot of the rebooted Halloween from a few years back and brings back the series original final girl, played by Olwen Fouere, for a fight with big bad Leatherface, played by Mark Burnham. There is no point in doing this as not only is it blatant plagiarism, but also the actor who played the final girl in every other one of her appearances is dead, so without looking it up you don’t know who Fouere is supposed to be.
The only good aspect of this film is that they don’t hold back on the gore and Leatherface is able to run wild, as such we get quite a few nice gnarly images with good effects work.
Overall, the forced social commentary nearly kills the film straight off, but then when it decides to rip off its better you know The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise is officially dead.
Pros.
The gore
A few unintentional laughs
Cons.
The social commentary
The deeply unlikeable characters
Ripping off Halloween
The ending
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Another Millennial Reviewer 
I didn’t even think the Tobe Hooper original was all that, and I can imagine that all the SJW stuff was a total movie-killer. 😛
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