As many of you recall, I waxed eloquent about the virtues of Bereavement as last year's best mainstream GIMP effort. When I discovered that its star, the lovely Alexandra Daddario (and her natural gifts) was going to be in a Chainsaw film I was waiting with baited breath. Well, the wait is over, Texas Chainsaw is now available on video store shelves.
This movie has many things going for it. 1) For the record, Alexandra spends much of the movie running around in outfits like this:
She is knocked out from behind, chased by a chainsaw maniac and even hit by a car. All this while bouncing effervescently. This alone is great gimpage, peril to peril. Great stuff. And for those of us who like seeing the bare waist of our victims this movie is a sensual overload experience. There is even one scene where Alexander is seen from the side, rib cage extending out arms overhead as she hangs from a ferris wheel car trying to elude her tormentor.
The culmination scene is one of the best GIMP scenes of recent mainstream memory. The lovely Alexandra is tied AOH with her shirt ripped open. While we never see the puppies completely (the use of large pieces of tape is the only way this happened). We see some great side boobage and a helpless victim reacting in fear to slow torment.
While she manages to escape...I don't want to give away the fine Oscar quality screenwriting...the scene is long and the images stuck in the memory. I am already willing to give this the mainstream movie of the year award for 2013. After all, this girl is running around in fear dressed like this for a vast majority of it.
Grade A
, I'd give it an A+ but it still sadly has some mainstream Hollywood sensitivities...
