Leatherface
Lionsgate | Release Date: October 20, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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4
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5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)John SemleyOct 19, 2017
Like the film's punishingly gory set pieces, the storytelling itself is meaty. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayOct 19, 2017
Leatherface is well-made pulp, not a masterpiece like Hooper’s original. But given what this character means to horror history — and how badly he’s been treated — any upgrade’s a gift. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonAug 31, 2017
The gory carnage is sparingly but vividly staged, the suspense-driven plot twisty enough to tax the brain. Read full review
60
Screen DailyKim NewmanAug 31, 2017
A production line effort with an eye on cashflow rather than the demented work of art Hooper loosed on the world, this eighth entry is above average for its attenuated series. Gore levels are as high as expected and, naturally, the finale leaves things open for further instalments. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 19, 2017
While Leatherface, a prequel directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (“Inside”), works OK as a gory horror film (necrophilia, beheading, partial defenestration and beating eaten alive by pigs are a few of the delights), it makes less sense as part of the surprisingly (and needlessly) expansive “Texas Chainsaw” universe, as it were. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis HarveyOct 4, 2017
This “origin story” is a somewhat mixed bag. But it’s also an earnest and well-crafted attempt at course-correction, straying from stock slasher recyclage to provide a different story that actually connects a few dots in the very tangled cinematic “Chainsaw” universe to date. Read full review
40
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoOct 20, 2017
Leatherface is an origin story that attempts to carve new mythos for one of horror's mightiest legends, but ends up leaning on franchise references and bleakness to an unnecessary fault. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Oct 20, 2017
To turn Leatherface into a tragic figure, twisted by traumatic upbringing into a monster, is to forget that he’s scariest as a force of nature, which tend to be tough to diagnose. Remember, no one cares what the shark from Jaws was like as a tortured guppy. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsOct 20, 2017
Leatherface tries to show us what made the man we know the legend he is now. Sadly, the makers of Leatherface didn't put enough thought into a sleepy story that could easily be titled "I Was a Teenage Leatherface." Read full review
20
TheWrapTodd GilchristOct 19, 2017
Leatherface is second only to Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” remake in horror’s pantheon of terrible origin stories. Read full review
19
IGNWilliam BibbianiOct 4, 2017
Leatherface is the worst Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie ever. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineChuck BowenOct 15, 2017
Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's anonymous work here could've been overseen by any hipster looking to make a mark at Platinum Dunes. Read full review
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