17 of the Funniest Reviews of ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (2022) so Far
Letterboxd is a “social discovery” app for movie lovers that I personally am obsessed with because I love keeping an organized watchlist of all the films I want to see. Never again will I endure a “so what should we watch?” conversation with someone when I can simply hand them my phone and they can select something they like from a list of all the movies I’ve been waiting to see. It’s also fun to click around and see what other people think of movies that I loved or hated.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) premiered on Netflix yesterday. It’s a direct sequel-ish (Fede Alvarez says it’s up to the fans whether all the films in the Texas Chainsaw universe happened within the world of the 2022 film or not) to the 1974 classic. This is a bit of a problem in that the 2022 film is a decent basic horror movie and the 1974 film is an important art movie about meat, capitalism and the Vietnam war. You can’t serve caviar before you eat Papa Johns pizza. No disrespect to Papa Johns, it is good pizza. They just don’t go together.
If you’ve already seen 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre (because, warning: spoiler’s ahead), here are the most interesting and funny reviews from Letterboxd:
Calling out TCM on ripping off Halloween’s Laurie Strode revenge plot:
and this one:
Phones couldn’t save the Zoomers:
Another funny one:
Gen Z just can’t win:
This did feel off:
Someone forgot what horror franchise they’re in:
Sally Hardesty a pick me girl? Devastating!
This one is for the TikTokers:
Friendly reminder that Netflix is currently raising its prices:
also this:
What’s the real crime here?
We solved gentrification, good job everyone:
Maybe it is us, the audience, who is wrong:
I also thought this ending was (legitimately) great:
The characters were almost too killable:
It just was no Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Period.
