Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Trey Songz
Rating: R for strong, grisly violence and language throughout
Run Time: 1 hour, 32 minutes
Synopsis: Just before going on a road-trip to New Orleans with her friends, Heather (Daddario) gets a mysterious letter in the mail telling her she's inherited large estate back in Texas. When they get to the estate, Heather and her friends discover a skin-mask wearing, chainsaw-wielding psychopath in the basement and all hell breaks loose.
REVIEW
Andrew: Hello dear readers! Sorry for the long delay between posts, but to be quite honest we’ve been quite busy with the day jobs, plus my better half was fighting a cold for most of last week and the early part of this week. But she’s all better now and I finally have some time to write this review, but first, let me introduce this new feature!
As you may know, Sarah isn’t the biggest fan of horror
movies. Yes, she did love The Cabin in the Woods, but for the
most part she doesn’t really like slasher flicks, haunted house movies (she
even believes our apartment is haunted!), monster movies and so on. She has an
active imagination and it gets the better of her when she’s asleep, so horror
movies are a no-no for Mrs. Keck.
Understandably that puts a little dent into how we do our
reviews here at Two Tickets For… where we hold a conversation about the movie.
As you can imagine, it’s a little hard to hold a conversation about a movie the
way we normally do when only one of us has seen the film. In the past we’ve
tried to do it the normal way, but we’ve discovered it’s just not the same.
So with all of that said, I’m here to introduce the first
review in our new feature – Alone In The Dark.
Nothing too special here, but what this feature is going to be will be a
one-man review on the horror movies I see without Sarah (hence, the "alone" part).
I haven’t quite nailed down a format that I want to write
these reviews in, but for the sake of kicking things off, I asked our friend
Nick of The Cinematic Katzenjammer (who helped me come up with the name for this feature) if I could borrow his "The Good, The Bad
& The Ugly" review format just this one time and he gave me his blessing. So
without further ado, here is my solo review of Texas Chainsaw 3D.
THE GOOD
Alexandra Daddario: I’ll get this right out of the way, there isn’t a whole lot of good in Texas Chainsaw 3D. I’m sure that surprises all of you. But it did have some good things, lead by a fine leading turn by Alexandra Daddario (USA's White Collar) as
Heather, a twenty-something girl who finds out she’s inherited a huge estate in Newt, Texas (setting of the original), and the estate happens to have Leatherface living in the basement. Daddario is certainly
pretty and she fills the role of scared heroine fairly well, but it’s really
more of the fact that she was apparently contractually obligated to bare her
midriff at all times that most guys will appreciate.
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| Considering how often her belly-button and abs are shown off in the film, it was surprisingly difficult to find a picture like this of Daddario's Heather. But this pic nicely shows off those AND the nice set design. Speaking of which... |
