The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning 2006

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: If watching people having their faces cut off, getting their legs amputated and having their throats tenderly slit is your idea of a horrific good time, you'll certainly get your money's worth here. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: All you need to know about the character is he's really crazy and carries a chain saw. And he's got an even crazier uncle who all but steals the film. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: The story's been played out so many times. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning relies on made-you-jump shocks and more fake entrails than a Jaycees haunted house. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: Gross and sadistic but never scary. Read more

Rocco B. Colella, Boston Globe: Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: Apart from reviving the original Massacre's pervasive sense of Nixon-era malaise, it doesn't offer much in the way of satisfying origins. Read more

Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: The idea of a horror prequel is annoying [and] unlike Hostel or Wolf Creek, TCM:B is rank and depressing. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The longer it stays on the screen, the closer the movie comes to the full-throttle nihilist comedy that Hooper himself seemed to be striving for in his own misbegotten Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: [Brewster's] just not feisty enough. There's no there there -- and you want a little sass in your horror movie babes, right? Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: No character, no commentary. Just slice-and-dice, pare-and-scare, scream-and-run and fall-and-die. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Jonathan Liebesman's prequel to Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic is just another trip down a very dusty road. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's as remorseless and disheartening as any of the others, more gory and less scary. Read more

Chris Tilly, Time Out: Oppressive, mean-spirited and sadistic, The Beginning is an unsavoury exercise in cruelty and pain that one hopes will also be the end. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: Though The Beginning offers few psychological insights into Leatherface's behavior, it does give bloodthirsty fans the chance to witness the mask's grisly creation. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Read more