The movie caused quite a stir in 1974 when the original film directed by Tobe Hooper shocked audiences with his eerie and implied grotesque tale of a deranged killer. But the formula has been so over done since then that the new film seems to fall flat with the now clichéd elements that made the first film a classic. But the true special ingredient in the first film was the edge of your seat suspense but that seems to be lost with the more �visual� big budget remake. 

Here is a sampling of the early reviews for the remake: 

�Efforts to expand the envelope of grotesquery make the film repulsive and suspenseless, and it sorely misses original director Tobe Hooper's grisly, wily sense of humor.� - William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer Movie Critic

�With a budget many times that of the 1974 drive-in classic on which it is based, Marcus Nispel's �Texas Chainsaw Massacre� delivers proportionately fewer thrills and no discernible suspense. It is, instead, a long march to the slaughterhouse that seems to take forever to get going and, once it does, goes nowhere that hasn't been visited before by more talented filmmakers.� - DAVE KEHR - NY Times Film Critic

��let�s discuss whether a remake of �The Texas Chainsaw Massacre� even needs to exist. Probably not� The producers have said they wanted to remake the horror classic because most young fans of the genre are aware of the film�s influence but have never seen it�Here�s a slice of advice: Go to the video store and rent the original.� -  Christy Lemire � Associated Press 

�Much as this gory new horror film would like to be associated with Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic, �The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,� the new �Massacre� is only about a 10th-generation copy. It's much closer in look and deed to last spring's �Wrong Turn,� which clumsily stole from Hooper's film and �Deliverance.�" - Betsy Pickle, Scripps Howard News Service

But the only reviews that count are those of the viewers and we will soon hear what they think of this remake.  .