The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – The Thomas Hewitt File
by CBB
This is the story of Thomas Hewitt. The drastically cut combination of TCM – THE BEGINNING and TCM – REMAKE turns the very mediocre originals to one complete gruesome story about one of the most frightening serial killers ever in movie history.
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(15 votes, average: 8.60 out of 10, rated)
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original film names: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – The Beginning
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Remake
film studio name: New Line Cinema
Date Original Film Was Released: 2003 / 2006 3
Date Edit Was Released: JAN 24 2007
Original Runtime: 91 min & 98 min
New Runtime: 98 min
Amount of time Cut/Added: 91 minutes cut
Cuts removed/added/extended:
- -removed the beginning narration from 2003
- -removed all teenagers and bikers from THE BEGINNING
- -removed Uncle Monty losing his legs, in fact we removed any reference to him ever having legs.
- -removed all of Jedidiah (the kid), except where he tells them where to find the Sheriff
- - shortened Erin’s scene in the living room of the Hewitts’
- - removed Erin stabbing Andy (friends don’t do that, especially not girls and especially not with a knife)
- - removed all the animals from the meat factory (factory was closed for good before)
- - removed the ending narration from THE BEGINNING and 2003
all in all we made more than 50 cuts
Trailer:
DVD – Features:
- 98 minutes NTSC 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen with AC3-5.1 audio and a vbr of 4.500KB/s using a 3 pass encoding with CCE.
- Languages : ENGLISH
- Subtitles : ENGLISH
- MENUS : still
- SCENE SELECTION : yes
- DELETED SCENES : yes, deleted deaths 25 min special
- COVER ART : yes, on DVD-Rom part
- CBB info : get information on all 15 CBB fanedits
Conceptual improvements/advancements of edit over original:
**************************INTRODUCTION***********************************
TCM The Beginning and TCM Remake were not that bad, but no competition to the atmosphere of the 1974 original. But still they gave the audience a more inside look into TCM and that is what brought us to the idea to create a complete Thomas Hewitt (a.k.a. Leatherface) story by taking scenes from both movies. Since the beginning really sucked, when it came to storytelling about the first Hewitt victims, these had to go completely.
***************************THE EDIT**************************************
It was very important for us to tell a believable and continuing story, so we had to erase anything that didn’t make sense (like the animals in the meat factory in REMAKE, when the same factory was closed for good in THE BEGINNING) for both. Deleting them was tough work.
Next thing was to find out where the movies went over the top with gore or credibility. That is why Uncle Monty will not loose his legs in our edition. The Hewitt’s are still cannibals, although there is hardly any mention of that in REMAKE, but it somehow made sense. Erin stabbing Andy was way over the top, this would never have happened in reality (friends just don’t do that to each other), but we kind of solved this very sufficiently. Be surprised.
For the tension of the movie we removed the annoying and badly acted Jedidiah (the kid) almost completely from the movie and you can be sure, he won’t be missed. But it is a wonderful example of editing, how we removed him from leading our two escapees from the dungeon. Unfortunately there was no room left on the DVD to include this scene as deleted scene.
Our movie is scary, gory, cruel and very dark, it is not for the faint of heart and we are not sure if this would have gained an R rating in the US.
Time needed for the edition
planning: 4 weeks
editing: 4 days
sound editing: 3 days
trailer: 1 day
DVD layout and features: 2 days
persons involved: 4
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by MONKEYMOOK on demonoid:
I just got finished watching this fanedit. Amazing. It has so much less filler crap, and makes way more sense. Will be seeding this for a long time. Very nice work. Why don’t you guys go work for a movie company? I’m sure this would save so much more time, so we don’t have to wait for them to make the sucky movies, for you guys to make them better.
Review by boon23 — June 22, 2007 @ 10:28 am
by JULEZ SANTANA on Demonoid:
Thanks, I’m a big fan of horror films and I always knew that I should have liked this movie more. There was just certain stuff I didn’t think was that great. I think this edit from the CBB GROUP might help me out. I look forward to the CBB GROUP fanedit of pulp fiction also. Keep me posted. I hope more scenes are added instead of taken out. And my favorite CBB release so far is Absolutely Unbreakable. That fanedit was Absolutely Perfect.
Review by boon23 — June 22, 2007 @ 10:29 am
by ramone1 on Demonoid:
cbb you guys rule!!!! this version kicks major butt!!ROCK ON!!!!!!
Review by boon23 — June 22, 2007 @ 10:30 am
I’m a fan of the remakes and this edit just didn’t feel that good.
The edit looked real good, but I feel their is a way of including more of the Beginning in the edit.
I only had a problem with 2 edited scenes: The none stabbing of Andy, but then we hear and see Erin saying plz forgive me and she has blood all splattered all over her. And just before that their was nothing on her upper body. The 2nd scene of Erin & Morgan in the basement and then Leatherface comes running down stairs and then we see them finding a way out. I know their was only so much to work with in those 2 scenes. But they bothered me the most.
This edit was a good one time watch, but I will stick with the originals.
Review by rmania — May 21, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
that is a pretty harsh rating (2 stars) actually and I for one cannot understand what you can like about the originals.
You only had a problem with 2 scenes? Well, let me explain, although it’s really not necessary:
Andy is hanging from the top, he is bleeding heavily, because he has a hook in his back. Erin approaches him and tries to lift him up (that’s where she gets all the blood) and fails. The hooks gets deeper into his back. And because she is not strong enough, she says that she is sorry. I don’t know, how you could have missed that.
The escape scene works like that. They are in the basement and it does have the extra exit. The only thing I cut from that was the kid Jeddadiah, who was in the original leading them.
Sorry you did not like it, but I think your comment and rating are bit too hard.
Review by boon23 — May 21, 2009 @ 9:05 pm
I must admit I expected more from this fanedit. I hoped there would be more scenes from The Beginning, I wanted to see the remake and the prequel being merged together. However, I was cheated by my own expectations. I liked the remake the way it is. The narration, while good, wasn’t so important to the story. Showing how R. Lee Ermee became sheriff Hoyt on the other hand was the best part in The Beginning and You included it, which I think is a great addition to an already flawless (imho) film.
While the video quality is not the best I’ve seen, it is consistent throughout and is pretty watchable, I didn’t notice problems with the audio either. I am in fact spoiled by watching mostly HD/BR movies lately. Although not on par with new dvdrip releases, I can’t complain about it, n’or did I notice any editing problems whatsoever. The inserts and cuts looked seamless to me.
This is only a suggestion, but how about an edit starting with the beginning and then the reamke, both being trimmed for timing reasons of course. That would show more of Hoyt’s sadistism and the family doing their deeds through the years, with Erin finally being able to escape, thus the only survivor and putting an end to this. Judging by what I saw I am positive You could make it work.
Overall I find this edit to be an improvement over the original film; me being a somewhat disappointed is definitely not the editor’s fault. All being said the only possible rating I can give this edit is 10/10. Keep up the good work.
Review by gogodabest — November 21, 2009 @ 4:20 pm