Another languid effort into enlarging the lore of a film series that needs no such exploration. The story follows the early days of Leatherface as he is taken away from his family and placed in a mental home for children from troublesome and criminal lifestyles. One night there is a riot and he along with several other inmates escape, thus beginning a police manhunt.
This could've worked as its own vessel without being tacked into the TCM franchise. It's hard to have stakes or get invested in the moral decline of a character we know becomes a mindless killer. The Bonnie and Clyde-esque inmates he escapes with serve as stakes and tension, however it feels like another film entirely, and they are dispatched off in an unsatisfying closure.
A flawed venture, it's hard to see just who this film is for. Veterans of the series will find nothing new, whilst the explicit gore and downtrodden, crushing finale is not going to enthrall newbies
- 4/10
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