Originally posted by [SCREWHEAD]...



Considering that I'm one of the only people on this whole PLANET who liked Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4: The Next Generation, and Children of the Living Dead, I see absolutely NO way you could consider me a sequel/remake hater. :b

The american sequel of the ring is being directed by the guy who did the "actual" sequel to Ringu (Ring2 as opposed to the director of Rasen), and is going to also contain elements of Ringu0: Birthday, which was a prequel explaining Sadako (Samara for anyone who hasn't seen the original)'s power as well as an "aftermath" of what happens to the mom and her son after the original movie.

And yes, Leatherface "Scalps" your face, that's why he's called leatherface. He takes your face off and tans it and wears it as a mask made from human leather. The thing they left out, which was the glue holding the movie together, was the fact that the family was a family of CANIBALS. THEY EAT PEOPLE. Leatherface was originaly based on Ed Gein, who wore the skin of dead people, made furniture from their bones and lampshades from their skin, he had a belt buckle made of human nipples and he dug up and skinned his dead mother and MADE A SUIT out of her to wear when he didn't know what to do. (He would put it on and pretend he was her giving him orders because he'd never done anything "on his own" in life or growing up)

The remake took out the dinner scene, which was crucial to the original, as well as the canibalism aspect. They watered down one of the best horror movies in history and made it slick and full of action for the MTV Music video generation who can't WATCH anything that doesn't have action and tits every 7.3 seconds. The movie made no attempt whatsoever at REALLY horifying you, just stringing together a bunch of one-shot SHOCK moments. There's one scene in particular that sums up the comparison of both movies: The hammer that both Leatherface uses to smack his first victim in the head.

The original used a small, more percise hammer that took several blows, like the original's films timing and writing, that hits the viewers slowly, percisily, and ultimatily leading to an increase of horror till the very end.

The new Leatherface uses a sledgehammer with a single blow, and that's the kind of heavy handedness that the film delivers with almost every scene, hitting the viewer once with something fast and shocking and then giving up, ultimately making it a pale imatation of the original.