Review – Leatherface

Add Lili Taylor to the list of award-winning actors whose agents need to be more diligent about screening for the words “Texas Chainsaw” in the job offer stack. This purports to be an origin story for the title character, though the production focuses most of its time on bet-you-didn’t-see-that-coming twists. The only reason I can see for sitting through this is if you have the “three-way sex with a rotting corpse” square on your horror movie bingo card. Oddly enough, it’s actually better than the last movie I saw from the same auteur duo. Wish I’d skipped it