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# Movie Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/movie-review-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2022/
- Published: 2022-02-19T02:39:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:55:08.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

[Letterboxd: 2 1/2 stars out of 5](https://letterboxd.com/claradox/film/texas-chainsaw-massacre/)

Is it fun? Yes. Fede Alvarez [horror movies](https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/tag/horror-movies/) are fun.  
Is it good? …No.  
Is it a worthy sequel? *No*. I appreciate Kim Henkel and John Laroquette’s involvement, and I loved the use of the original cast’s photo as a prop.

But how the hell did a grown man end up in an orphanage? He had a family. They were disturbed to high hell, and Leatherface arguably had a low IQ ([see Gunnar Hansen’s acting preparation notes](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781522675402)), but that part makes no sense, and is given no backstory/explanation. The Cook and the Hitchhiker were no older than he was, so the argument that they all died off doesn’t hold water.

Things like this, as a writer, bug me. 

I did like the ending. Nice throwback to stinger endings of the 80’s.

I leave you with this:

Leatherface kills millennial gentrification investors in a party bus en masse.

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