The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

2006 R 1h 24m DVD

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

2006 R 1h 24m DVD
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Two Vietnam-bound brothers out for a last fling with their girlfriends crash their Jeep. Suddenly, a psycho sheriff ushers them into a place where terror awaits in the form of young Leatherface.
Cast
Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, Matt Bomer, R. Lee Ermey, Andrew Bryniarski, Lee Tergesen, Terrence Evans, Kathy Lamkin, Marietta Marich
Director
Jonathan Liebesman
Format
DVD
Screen
Widescreen 1.85:1
Subtitles
English, Spanish (Neutral)
CC
No
Audio
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: DTS 6.1 Surround Sound
Rating
R - Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
age 17+
Common Sense rating Not for kids
age 17+

Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that this grisly horror film isn't for kids -- though lots of horror-loving teens will want to see it. It's relentlessly bloody, dark-shadowed, and gruesome, with the titular chainsaw wreaking predictable (but still dire) havoc. Violence is graphic and incessant, with a range of weapons (guns, meat hooks, cleavers) producing severed limbs and body parts. A cow is smashed to bloody smithereens by a jeep; human victims are tortured (hung from hooks, tied up, taunted, stabbed, and sawed). The faux sheriff taunts a girl by pressing up against her and whispering ("I love you"). Some cleavage shots, and the girls' clothing appears in increasing disarray. Frequent foul language, mostly "f--k" and its permutations.

Sexual Content

Hoyt leans into Bailey a couple of times, insinuating sexual interest and terrorizing her; girls wear short skirts, midriff tops, low-riding bellbottoms, showing some skin; their clothes become skimpier throughout the film due to ravaging, falling, water, and blood; brief moments of kissing between couples.

Violence

Blood everywhere. A birth scene at the beginning is pained and ugly, with lots of screaming (mother dies, baby is monstrous); baby Leatherface is trained to kill and cut up animals; brief shot of gross roadkill; chopping of animal parts emphasizes loud sounds and bloody aftermath; weapons throughout include handgun, knives, chainsaw, sawed-off and regular shotguns, meat hook, hammer, cleaver, bear trap; a jeep hits a cow (bloody mess all over the screen), then flips several times, leaving occupants bloodied and tearful; torture scenes show bodies tied to table, hanging from ceiling, nailed to table; Leatherface saws off his uncle's legs (explicit image) and saws through the backs of three other characters; kids attempt feeble stabbing and punching of their adversaries and are repeatedly beaten back, in gory detail.

Language

Repeated use of "f--k" (30+), along with other profanity ("hell," "c--ksucker," "a--hole," "s--t"); use of "gooks" to refer to Vietnamese.

Social Behavior

Not applicable.

Consumerism

Glimpse of Coca Cola sign in bar.

Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol

Cigarette smoking and beer drinking in a bar.

  • Age appropriate
  • Not an issue
  • Depends on your child and your family
  • Parents strongly cautioned
  • Not appropriate for kids of the age

This information for parents is provided by Common Sense Media, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving kids' media lives.

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