Three decades after the release of Tobe Hooper's unnervingly disturbing "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," the highly influential classic has inspired yet another pass at the source material. While Marcus Nispel, an acclaimed commercial and music video director making his feature debut here, and screenwriter Scott Kosar have essentially tossed out all but the bare bones of the Hooper-Kim Henkel scenario, they've retained that nightmarish, relentlessly claustrophobic quality that has made the 1974 film such a tough act to follow. After the stage is set with some scratchy black-and-white film footage taken from the (fictional) 1973 murder scene at the remote Travis County, Texas, farmhouse of former slaughterhouse worker Thomas Hewitt, aka Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski), we are then taken inside a van carrying five young adults on an ill-fated trip to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas.

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