Review: In a ‘Chain Saw’ homage, real ‘70s horror meets ‘70s porn in ‘X.’
If I had a dime — or maybe a drop of blood — for every movie that tried to recreate the vibe, the situation, and the high anxiety of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” I’d have a pretty big bucket of blood. For decades, I’ve been watching movies that open with a handful of obnoxious kids in a vehicle, tooling down a roadway, and then … well, you know what happens then.
More than that, it's a movie made with genuine mood and skill and flavor. Your average"Chain Saw" knockoff never seems remotely like a movie from the grainy outlaw '70s. It is, rather, contempo product that feels like product; the movies in the"Chain Saw" franchise itself are made with the worst kind of synthetic digital sheen.
[Most read] ‘I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.’ Two years after COVID-19 shutdown, chefs and restaurant operators look back — and ahead."Texas Chain Saw," the granddaddy of the slasher genre, had an atmosphere that was sexualized enough that the porn-film plot of"X" feels like a natural extension of it. We see several of the porn scenes being shot, and like the ones in"Boogie Nights" they're realistic and true to the scruffy pre-video porn vibe.
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