Leatherface [Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, 2017]:
While well acted (particularly by veterans Stephen Dorff and Lili Taylor in key supporting roles) and with strong production values throughout, no one who ever watched a prior version of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" series imagined THIS as a potential backstory for the title character. Directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, best known for the gory French horror films Inside (2007) and Livid (2011), have a lot of fun furnishing this origin story for the most American of horror movies with lashings of Gallic grotesqueness, but they fail to provide psychological insights or consistent character development.
