Leatherface

Un volet de plus pour la célèbre franchise sur une famille de tarés dans laquelle on ressasse toujours la même histoire, à part une innovation. Et bien qu’on a déjà vu Massacre à la tronçonneuse : le commencement, ici, on creuse encore un peu plus dans le passé. Le jeu d'acteur est plutôt sympathique, bien qu’encore une fois trop brutal, et soit c’est vraiment limite, soit je n’ai plus la patience et l’indulgence d’antan. (15/04/2018)

Où est-ce que Lili Taylor s'est perdue ? À travers une série d'innombrables variations inutiles avec un casting peu intéressant de jeunes visages et une dose considérable de cheapness et de démence. (26/11/2017)

For me, the original Massacre Is one of the most suggestive cinematic experiences ever – a sickeningly consistent build-up of fear and a nerve-wracking immersion in the setting and mood of evil incarnate. The sequels are more or less watchable rubbish, and Leatherface is, as expected, no exception. The story is patched together clumsily from three distinct parts whose transitions are reprehensibly rushed, it drags in protagonists without knowing what to do with them and has them quickly dispatched, and the development of the most important character is shrunk quite incomprehensibly to one or two scenes. At least it has a solid drive, a pretty woman in the lead role, and some satisfyingly disgusting scenes around which a passable atmosphere is built. But it's still simply a denigration of a brilliant original that no one needed to see. Period. (16/01/2018)

Everything you didn’t want to know about the young Leatherface, but Bustillo and Maury have asked on your behalf. I really can’t understand why a talented duo of directors who generated a lot of buzz after their début thought it would be a good idea to take on this languishing series, and why they’ve contributed to it in this way. Their Leatherface is unleashed enough to deviate from many other similar but better films. However, unlike the previous TCM from 2013, this one does have some standards of craftsmanship, something that could be called an atmosphere and it’s not drowning in all out madness; that’s enough for an average. (08/10/2017)

Leatherface doesn't have the rawness of the original 1974 film, which I don't think is even possible to achieve with current technology, because the rawness was also due to the picture and its imperfections. Still, Leatherface works quite well as an origin film, and one can believe that this is the birth of a familiar villain that is believable and even makes quite a bit of sense. More cow-head scenes are needed. (02/02/2018)