The story will go backward a couple of years, trying to answer questions about the character Leatherface. In this prequel, the filmmakers want to explain why Leatherface uses a chainsaw, and how his mask originated.
Umm...can I ask why we need to know why Leatherface uses a chainsaw? Wait, I'll answer that. Because that's what he fucking uses, that's why! Doesn't anyone understand anything? Huh? Don't they? I'm about to get all "Gimme the bat, Wendy" up in here, I tells ya.
Hint to modern horror moviemakers: Michael Myers was scary because he was the boogeyman. He was just "evil". He was everywhere and he was nowhere. Leatherface was a crazy dude in a crazy family that you were thankful you didn't come across...'cause, didn't the movie seem kinda real? Like, maybe that guy's still out there, twirling around with his chainsaw...?
Sheesh. If I want an explanation for why a guy would wear other people's flesh as...accoutrements, I'll watch Silence of the Lambs.
Oh, and the Charles Nelson Reilly thing will pass, I promise. I mean it this time.
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So I have no idea who CNR is so I googled him and found his filmography. Still no clue, so I looked at pictures of him and still no clue. This is one of those things that happens to me around Stacie and I feel bad b/c I'm sure its funny but I don't get it!!!
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There's also rarely any suspense in prequel stories. I mean, we know what happens next right? Part of what's scary about boogiemen is, as you said, they just are. Does it make them scarier if we know what drives them? No. Finding out that (in the novel Hannibal) Hannibal Lector became a cannibal because he'd watched his sister get eaten and eating other people connected him to his sister didn't make Hannibal scarier. It made him pathetic. I can't at the moment think of a prequel that works to enrich the story that it's providing backstory for.
Agreed - explaining things stops them being scary. The Hallowe'en franchise was a clasic example of this - Like Stacie says, he was initially scary because he was the boogeyman. Making him Thorn, trying to explain why he can't be killed and that (in parts 5 and 6) was just lame. I'm so glad they ignored those films when they restarted the franchise...
The only movie I can think of that I'd love to see a prequel for would be Roadhouse. And that's just because the world needs more Roadhouse.
Hollywood people projecting their lack of imagination on people who'd rather imagine Leatherface's beginning. I don't know, it just seems to me that there is a real dearth in horror making. I know I'll sound like an old codger, but back in my day horror was better.
And welcome back
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