The Texas Chainsaw Massacre review: Tense, raucous horror competitor revs up
The sun beats down, unrelenting. It's a muggy day in Muerto County, and we're welcomed into the great state with the image of a rotting corpse, tethered to a mismatched collection of equally decayed limbs. Our first moments here are awash with filth and the farthest reaches of human depravity are welcomed into the frame. Welcome to Texas.
The opening moments of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre detail a crime of perhaps the most disturbing fashion fathomable, and audiences of the film in 1974 had rarely seen such unforgiving and brash horrors. The hour and a half that follow are a masterclass in stripping comfort away from an audience, presenting a twisted family of lunatics carving poor passers-by into a sickening monument to fear, all as the sun rages and debilitates.
It would be a surprise if anyone could have expected, though, that the nightmare under the Texan sun could be turned into a video game that replicates the exact horrors of the Massacre.
With direct competition with Dead by Daylight, a game that appears to have backed every other similar title into a corner, fans will likely be asking themselves one question: Will The Texas Chainsaw Massacre survive? And what will be left of it?
