“Texas Chainsaw Massacre” have always aimed low but “Leatherface” aims straight for the underworld. This is a film that begins with a young boy being encouraged to mutilate a man with a chainsaw. Throughout the movie, people are savagely beaten, tortured and murdered. The ugliness is here but it fails to offer any thrills, scares or meaning.

Jedidiah Sawyer is taken away from his sadistic family after they carry out a string of brutal murders. He is placed in a special facility for mentally disturbed children. After a decade inside, he escapes with a few others with a kidnapped nurse (Vanessa Grasse). On this journey, the killer inside him will be awakened.

The characters in this movie are just awful. Big fans of these movies are going to be even more disappointed than me when it comes to what they have done with the Leatherface character. He’s absolutely nothing like you would expect after watching the other films in the franchise. This is one of the worst origins I’ve ever seen in a movie. “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” was better at giving us the character’s backstory. Nobody in this slasher flick is even vaguely interesting. All the performances are terrible.

“Leatherface” is so bad that I actually think it’s worse than the abysmal “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation”. We see people covering themselves in the blood of dead animals, we see people stab innocent individuals and we see folks destroyed by a roaring chainsaw. It’s fine to be violent but what is not okay is to fail to put any effort into what you’re making. It’s all blood and guts and no brains. It’s not even that shocking because it’s still less gory and sadistic than “Cannibal Holocaust”, many of the “Saw” sequels and even some of the other “Texas Chainsaw” movies. This is just a failure on all fronts.