Taking the Halloween route, this modern-day direct sequel to the original classic horror film starts by placing the events of nearly fifty years ago as the fodder of unsolved cases reality TV, as the now-abandoned nearby town sees the arrival of a group of young idealists set on reviving its fortunes, who encounter the old lady who runs the town's orphanage with one final inhabitant... As the franchise's Jamie Lee Curtis figure, the 1973 film's survivor is now a watchful aged ranger, joining in the cross-generational female-led battle to survive the onslaught of an aggrieved Leatherface. The trailer gave away the key scenes, with Leatherface chainsawing his way through a busload of trapped victims a highlight. Coming in at a very lean 83 minutes, and with most of the cast dispatched before the hour mark, the final act is a drawn-out cat-and-mouse affair that surprisingly keeps its momentum going fairly well, and with its very upfront gore effects this 2022 outing for the franchise is no worse than the other reimagings/reboots from the last couple of decades and is hardly essential, but as a competent old-school-style slasher it passes the time acceptably.
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