Friday, 28 October 2022

Leatherface

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.

Schalcken the Painter (1979)

Schalcken the Painter [Schalcken the Painter [Leslie Megahey, 1979]: This is a film I first saw around four years ago. At the time I found...