The other three characters in the group aside from Lila are just bland and forgettable and the bus full of prospective investors are basically just walking blood bags waiting for Leatherface to cut through them. In terms of the rest of the movie, it's pretty underwhelming. I also thought Elsie Fisher was good as Lila and thought she was the most resonant character who fit well in the role. The work on the older Leatherface for his mask and costume looks nicely filthy, wet, and disgusting, and the dilapidated town of Harlow in theory is a decent setting for this type of movie. In terms of the filmmaking it looks and feels like a Texas Chainsaw movie and even falls in line with the cinematography of the original 1974 film. TCM '22 falls in line with entries like Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, the Platinum Dunes remake, or Leatherface (2017) in that their competent, but they're just "there" and nothing more. After viewing the film, Texas Chainsaw Massacre '22 isn't a trainwreck, but I almost wish it was because as bad as Texas Chainsaw 3D and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation were, they were at least fascinatingly bad. Netflix did surprising little to promote the film with no trailer released until January 31 for the film and the trailing receiving a rather mixed response, particularly for the "Bus scene" prominently featured in the trailer that is clearly intended as the film's big money moments with a rather stupid joke about the social media age. Further bad press was generated when rumors circulated regarding poor test screening s which Alverez flat out denied and then the reveal that the film would be skipping a theatrical release and sold to Netflix. The movie was a troubled production with original directors, Andy and Ryan Tohill being fired following disagreements with the producers leading to replacement David Blue Garcia. Legendary Pictures purchased the IP in 2018 with Fede Alverez of the Evil Dead remake and Don't Breathe signing on as a producer. Texas Chainsaw Massacre marks the latest attempt to revive the Texas Chainsaw IP following the lapse in Millennium Media's rights after the troubled development and release of 2017's Leatherface prevented any further sequels produced by Millennium. Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouere) receives word of Leatherface's re-emergence and heads to Harlow to end him once and for all. When the woman dies, her son goes into a vengeful rage killing the sheriff, Ruth, and his deputy and he takes the skin from his mother's face revealing him to be the killer from the unsolved Texas Chainsaw Massacre 50 years ago and who now seeks vengeance on Melody and her friends blaming them for his mother's death. Calling the sheriff to remove the alleged squatters the woman begins to exhibit deteriorating health and the sheriff, Ruth, and the woman's son head off to the nearest hospital to find help. The town has two residents a woman (Alice Krige) and her son (Mark Burnham) at the local orphanage who refuse to vacate claiming to be the rightful owners of the property. A group of four friends Melody (Sarah Yarkin), Melody's sister Lila (Elsie Fisher), Dante (Jacob Latimore), and Dante's girlfriend Ruth (Nell Hudson) travel to the deserted city of Harlow, Texas with Melody seeking a fresh start for her sister Lila after her surviving a school shooting and also seeking to re-invent the town as a resort destination after having acquired it for cheap from the bank.
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