{"id":3419,"date":"2022-03-08T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2022-03-07T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:09:34","slug":"something-in-review-texas-chainsaw-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3419","title":{"rendered":"[SOMETHING IN REVIEW] Texas Chainsaw Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a movement in horror to bring back the classics. We went through the remake era with the 2000&#8217;s versions of <em>Friday<\/em> and <em>Nightmare<\/em>, but\u00a0<em>Saw<\/em> and, most popularly,\u00a0<em>Halloween<\/em>, has show us that there are stories to tell a few decades later in the same universe.<\/p>\n<p>Now Netflix is getting in on the action with a late-quel? (is that a word?) of the horror classic, <strong>Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/strong>. Does it have the same legs that Laurie Strode and Michael Myers had? I ask, because that&#8217;s clearly what they were asking in the scriptwriting room&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So settle in to a dusty little empty street in Texas where nobody notices anything and real estate is cheap &#8211; it&#8217;s time for <strong>Something In Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ok here we g.g.g.g.g.ggggooooOOOooo..<\/em> (<em>that was a chainsaw noise)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><strong><em><a class=\"wpaudio\" style=\"font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/www.somethingcast.com\/episodes\/030722reviewchainsaw.mp3\">Full Episode<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a movement in horror to bring back the classics. We went through the remake era with the 2000&#8217;s versions of <em>Friday<\/em> and <em>Nightmare<\/em>, but\u00a0<em>Saw<\/em> and, most popularly,\u00a0<em>Halloween<\/em>, has show us that there are stories to tell a few decades later in the same universe.<\/p>\n<p>Now Netflix is getting in on the action with a late-quel? (is that a word?) of the horror classic, <strong>Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/strong>. Does it have the same legs that Laurie Strode and Michael Myers had? I ask, because that&#8217;s clearly what they were asking in the scriptwriting room&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So settle in to a dusty little empty street in Texas where nobody notices anything and real estate is cheap &#8211; it&#8217;s time for <strong>Something In Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ok here we g.g.g.g.g.ggggooooOOOooo..<\/em> (<em>that was a chainsaw noise)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><strong><em><a class=\"wpaudio\" style=\"font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/www.somethingcast.com\/episodes\/030722reviewchainsaw.mp3\">Full Episode<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1,142],"tags":[234,30,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}