A worldwide Pandemic couldn't stop a mega-streaming platform from releasing this one on the World.
Is it a cut above the rest or are the dead the lucky ones?
This means that we're in the 'forget all of the Sequels- THIS is the Sequel' territory a la 2018's Halloween.
Unsurprisingly, there are ALOT of comparisons to that Film here.
A silly contrivance leads to the death of Leatherface's Mother (or at least Mother figure because it has been 48 years) and he suits up to kill the people that dared to be there.
Now it is everyone vs a (let's be generous) 68-year old Leatherface.
So yeah, they're f###ed.
Can a returning Laurie...I mean, Sally be the one to put the killer down?
And yes, let's address the obvious- the original Actress died in 2014, so this Not Laurie is also a Not Sally. It's also not her fault, but still.
Yikes. This one is...yeah, it's bad.
It was test-screened and then sold to Netflix thanks to COVID Shutdowns. It's too bad that this didn't shutdown by TV!
The whole idea is...not great either. Hipsters come to make a new community in a Ghost Town...only one person lives there. It just HAPPENS to be Leatherface, who somehow eluded Sally and the Cops for nearly 50 years. Yes, THIS GUY did that.
This one really is an Idiot Story. It also makes a Mary Sue (or Larry Stu) out of Leatherface.
He's got to be nearly 70 here, but he has super-strength (breaking a man's arm with ease), super-speed (he somehow disappears in an alley in 3 seconds) and is nigh invulnerable (he walks off being shot, stabbed and hit by a car). He's just ridiculous.
The victims are also pretty damn dumb. If you were facing down a giant with a chainsaw, would you threaten to 'cancel him?' No.
Let's face it- this sucks.
Sorry, Tobe Hooper.
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