Kim Henkel Archives

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 1, 2003Backwoods Brutality

An absolute horror classic, a film that has been conceived as a harrowing assault on one's nerves. This has become a landmark genre classic and led to numerous sequels and copies but rarely any that matched the original

Director: Tobe Hooper

Actors: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Jim Siedow, Paul A. Partain, …

Category: Horror

1 April 200314 June 2026 by Roog

Eaten Alive (1977)

Rating: ★★

Nov 21, 2008Psycho Backwoods Motelier

The first film that Tobe Hooper made immediately after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a dementedly OTT Southern Gothic with Neville Brand as a backwoods motelier serving up his guests to the crocodiles

Director: Tobe Hooper

Actors: Neville Brand, Marilyn Burns, Jose Ferrer, Robert Englund, …

Category: Horror

21 November 200823 February 2026 by Roog

The Unseen (1981)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 9, 2003In-Bred Deformity in the Cellar

A variant on the Mad Relative Locked in the Cellar/Attic film that turns out to be surprisingly well made

Director: Danny Steinmann

Actors: Barbara Bach, Sydney Lassick, Leila Goldoni, Doug Barr, …

Category: Horror

9 October 200316 May 2025 by Roog

The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 11, 2009Backwoods Brutality

The third sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Usually reviled by fans, this is not unworthwhile, capped by a genuinely insane performance from a then-unknown Matthew McConaughey

Director: Kim Henkel

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Renee Zellweger, John Harrison

Category: Horror

11 January 200912 February 2026 by Roog

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 27, 2004Backwoods Brutality

A remake of Tobe Hooper's landmark classic that presaged a host of inferior 70s/80s horror remakes throughout the 2000s/10s. What we have is now a different film although not entirely an uninteresting one

Director: Marcus Nispel

Actors: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, …

Category: Horror

27 January 20042 October 2024 by Roog

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 21, 2007Backwoods Brutality

Prequel to the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, which sets out to tell the origin story of the cannibal family. New director Jonathan Liebesman pushes the gore and sadism to Torture Porn extremes

Director: Jonathan Liebesman

Actors: R. Lee Ermey, Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Matt Bomer, …

Category: Horror

21 October 200710 April 2025 by Roog

Found Footage 3D (2016)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 28, 2023Found Footage Parody

An absolutely hilarious parody of the Found Footage film about a film crew trying to conduct a shoot in a haunted house. This comes with mind-spinning levels of meta-fiction

Director: Steven DeGennaro

Actors: Carter Roy, Alena Von Stroheim, Chris O’Brien, Tom Saporito, …

Category: Horror

28 March 20238 February 2026 by Roog

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

Rating: ★

Feb 26, 2022Backwoods Brutality

The ninth Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, this offers the intriguing idea of Leatherface vs millennials

Director: David Blue Garcia

Actors: Sarah Yarkin, Elise Fisher, Mark Burnham, Jacob Latimore, …

Category: Horror

26 February 202222 January 2023 by Roog

Chain Reactions (2024)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 26, 2026Documentary About The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

A documentary that interviews five people, including Stephen King and Takashi Miike, about the influence that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre had on their lives. The results are fascinating and illuminating

Director: Alexandre O. Philippe

Actors: Stephen King, Takashi Miike, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama, …

Category: Horror

26 April 202626 April 2026 by Roog