The reaction to the new Netflix take on Texas Chainsaw Massacre has been pretty intense in some sections of the horror community, with genre fans arguing over whether it was horrible or surprisingly entertaining. Our own Gaius Bolling gave the movie a 6/10 review you can read at THIS LINK. I liked the movie even more than he did, and have already watched it multiple times. I think releasing it through the Netflix streaming service was a great move, and Netflix has now released information that reveals it had a successful first weekend.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was the second most viewed movie on Netflix during the February 14 to February 20 time period – which means this only covers its first three days of release. In those three days, Netflix subscribers streamed the film for a total of 29.18 million hours. That’s a whole lot of Leatherface watching going on around the world.
The #1 movie on the service during this time period was The Tinder Swindler, which was viewed for 34 million hours.
Netflix also revealed that Texas Chainsaw Massacre ranked in the top 10 in 94 countries, reaching #1 on the daily lists in the United States, Bolivia, Brazil, Honduras, Oman, Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. This is a much better level of success than it could have reached in theatres.
Directed by David Blue Garcia from a script by Chris Thomas Devlin (based on a story by producers Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues), the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre has the following official synopsis:
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
Melody (Sarah Yarkin), her teenage sister Lila (Elsie Fisher), and their friends Dante (Jacob Latimore) and Ruth (Nell Hudson), head to the remote town of Harlow, Texas to start an idealistic new business venture. But their dream soon turns into a waking nightmare when they accidentally disrupt the home of Leatherface, the deranged serial killer whose blood-soaked legacy continues to haunt the area’s residents — including Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouéré), the sole survivor of his infamous 1973 massacre who’s hell-bent on seeking revenge.
In addition to the actors mentioned above, the cast includes Moe Dunford, Jessica Allain, Sam Douglas, William Hope, Jolyon Coy, and Alice Krige, with Mark Burnham as genre icon Leatherface. John Larroquette, who narrated the opening text crawl of the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and was also heard in the remake and the remake’s prequel, was brought back to narrate the opening of this movie as well.
If Netflix decides they want a sequel, Garcia has let it be known that he has ideas for it and is ready to get to work.
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