{"id":3790,"date":"2022-12-13T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2022-12-13T02:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T07:37:41","slug":"best-of-2022-in-review-texas-chainsaw-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3790","title":{"rendered":"[BEST OF 2022] In Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, some movies are just like the Jelly of the Month Club, Clark…\u00a0 gifts that keep on giving. This review was for a movie that had an amazing trailer and we hoped it would be what the first new Halloween was like… and well… … … enjoy.<\/p>\n

Here’s what we said then:<\/p>\n

There is a movement in horror to bring back the classics. We went through the remake era with the 2000’s versions of Friday and Nightmare, but\u00a0Saw and, most popularly,\u00a0Halloween, has show us that there are stories to tell a few decades later in the same universe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now Netflix is getting in on the action with a late-quel? (is that a word?) of the horror classic, Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/strong>. Does it have the same legs that Laurie Strode and Michael Myers had? I ask, because that’s clearly what they were asking in the scriptwriting room…<\/em><\/p>\n

So settle in to a dusty little empty street in Texas where nobody notices anything and real estate is cheap – it’s time for Something In Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ok here we g.g.g.g.g.ggggooooOOOooo.. (that was a chainsaw noise)<\/em><\/p>\n

Full Episode<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, some movies are just like the Jelly of the Month Club, Clark…\u00a0 gifts that keep on giving. This review was for a movie that had an amazing trailer and we hoped it would be what the first new Halloween was like… and well… … … enjoy.<\/p>\n

Here’s what we said then:<\/p>\n

There is a movement in horror to bring back the classics. We went through the remake era with the 2000’s versions of Friday and Nightmare, but\u00a0Saw and, most popularly,\u00a0Halloween, has show us that there are stories to tell a few decades later in the same universe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now Netflix is getting in on the action with a late-quel? (is that a word?) of the horror classic, Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/strong>. Does it have the same legs that Laurie Strode and Michael Myers had? I ask, because that’s clearly what they were asking in the scriptwriting room…<\/em><\/p>\n

So settle in to a dusty little empty street in Texas where nobody notices anything and real estate is cheap – it’s time for Something In Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ok here we g.g.g.g.g.ggggooooOOOooo.. (that was a chainsaw noise)<\/em><\/p>\n

Full Episode<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[234,220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790"}],"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=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3792,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions\/3792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}