The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

3.9 Score

2006 • 1h 31min • R • Horror

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

"What you know about fear... doesn't even come close."

Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.

IMDb 5.8

RT 15%

MC 30

Director

Jonathan Liebesman

Writer

Sheldon Turner

Composer

Steve Jablonsky

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Jordana Brewster

Chrissie

Taylor Handley

Dean

Diora Baird

Bailey

Matt Bomer

Eric

R. Lee Ermey

Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt

Lew Temple

Sheriff Winston Hoyt

Andrew Bryniarski

Thomas Hewitt / Leatherface

Tim DeZarn

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Diora Baird Bailey

Matt Bomer Eric

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Terrence Evans Monty Hewitt

Marietta Marich Luda Mae Hewitt

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