Synopsis
A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind, moulding him into a monster named Leatherface.
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Cast
- Stephen DorffTexas Ranger Hal Hartman
- Vanessa GrasseLizzy
- Sam StrikeJackson
- Lili TaylorVerna Sawyer
- James BloorIke
- Jessica MadsenClarice
- Sam ColemanBud
- Lorina KamburovaBetty Hartman
- Christopher AdamsonDr. Lang
- Finn JonesDeputy Sorrel
Recommendations
- 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Like the film's punishingly gory set pieces, the storytelling itself is meaty. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The gory carnage is sparingly but vividly staged, the suspense-driven plot twisty enough to tax the brain. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Leatherface is well-made pulp, not a masterpiece like Hooper’s original. But given what this character means to horror history — and how badly he’s been treated — any upgrade’s a gift. - 60
Screen Daily
A production line effort with an eye on cashflow rather than the demented work of art Hooper loosed on the world, this eighth entry is above average for its attenuated series. Gore levels are as high as expected and, naturally, the finale leaves things open for further instalments. - 50
Variety
This “origin story” is a somewhat mixed bag. But it’s also an earnest and well-crafted attempt at course-correction, straying from stock slasher recyclage to provide a different story that actually connects a few dots in the very tangled cinematic “Chainsaw” universe to date. - 50
Arizona Republic
While Leatherface, a prequel directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (“Inside”), works OK as a gory horror film (necrophilia, beheading, partial defenestration and beating eaten alive by pigs are a few of the delights), it makes less sense as part of the surprisingly (and needlessly) expansive “Texas Chainsaw” universe, as it were. - 25
RogerEbert.com
Leatherface tries to show us what made the man we know the legend he is now. Sadly, the makers of Leatherface didn't put enough thought into a sleepy story that could easily be titled "I Was a Teenage Leatherface." - 20
TheWrap
Leatherface is second only to Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” remake in horror’s pantheon of terrible origin stories.
