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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

2006 · 91 min · Director: Jonathan Liebesman ★ IMDb 5.8 · 83,065 ratings

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In August, 1939, a worker goes into labor while working in a slaughterhouse and dies after a complicated labor, though the deformed child survives. The possibly orphaned baby is dumped in a garbage container and found by a beggar later, who brings him home. Along the years, the mentally retarded and disturbed boy called Thomas is raised by the Hewitt family in spite of having psychological problems as well as suffering from an unnamed skin disorder, later working in a meat packing plant. In July, 1969, when the facility is closed, the inhabitants move to other places, but the deformed, mentally childlike Thomas flies into a rage after being insulted and kills the foreman. His deranged brother (considered his uncle due to their age difference) executes the sheriff that is going to arrest Thomas, and assumes his identity, wearing his clothes,driving his car though the roads in Texas and entitling himself as Sheriff Hoyt. Meanwhile, the brothers Eric and Dean are traveling in a Jeep with their girlfriends Christie and Bailey, Eric to serve in Vietnam and Dean escaping to Mexico. When the group has a car accident, Hoyt arrests Eric, Dean and Bailey and brings them to his house. Christie follows them trying to rescue the trio, trapped in the house of sadistic and insane cannibals, in a trip of horror and gore.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Fear 40%, Disturbing 25%, Tension 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Fear40%

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The strongest emotional signals are Fear, Disturbing, Tension. Genres: Horror. AI estimate.

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Emotional journey

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  • Tension
  • Disturbing
  • Fear

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Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sympathy

Dominant emotion: Disturbing

Tension
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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then peaks around 88 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityTensionDisturbingFear
2.5 %≈ 2′Tension40 %32 %27 %15 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Sympathy44 %30 %28 %13 %
12.5 %≈ 11′Sympathy44 %29 %21 %11 %
17.5 %≈ 16′Tension49 %39 %31 %21 %
22.5 %≈ 20′Disturbing56 %50 %43 %31 %
27.5 %≈ 25′Tension60 %57 %36 %38 %
32.5 %≈ 30′Tension66 %66 %43 %48 %
37.5 %≈ 34′Tension71 %70 %57 %54 %
42.5 %≈ 39′Tension78 %74 %69 %63 %
47.5 %≈ 43′Disturbing85 %80 %79 %71 %
52.5 %≈ 48′Disturbing86 %83 %75 %70 %
57.5 %≈ 52′Tension84 %83 %63 %69 %
62.5 %≈ 57′Tension84 %83 %63 %71 %
67.5 %≈ 61′Tension86 %83 %68 %73 %
72.5 %≈ 66′Sympathy83 %76 %65 %66 %
77.5 %≈ 71′Disturbing76 %68 %66 %57 %
82.5 %≈ 75′Disturbing83 %70 %79 %59 %
87.5 %≈ 80′Disturbing93 %79 %88 %68 %
92.5 %≈ 84′Tension89 %73 %81 %66 %
97.5 %≈ 89′Disturbing78 %53 %73 %52 %
Riches to rags

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

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Diora Baird

Bailey

R. Lee Ermey

Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt

Lew Temple

Sheriff Winston Hoyt

Andrew Bryniarski

Thomas Hewitt / Leatherface

Tim DeZarn

Slaughterhouse Supervisor

Lee Tergesen

Holden

CB
Cyia Batten

Alex

TE
Terrence Evans

Monty Hewitt

MM
Marietta Marich

Luda Mae Hewitt

LC
L.A. Calkins

Sloane

AM
Allison Marich

Young Luda Mae

MH
Marcus H. Nelson

Lackey

KL
Kathy Lamkin

Tea Lady

MC
Melody Chase

Biker Chick (uncredited)

EK
Emily Kaye

Biker Chick (uncredited)

John Larroquette

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Details

Directed by
Jonathan Liebesman
Written by
David J. Schow, Sheldon Turner, Sheldon Turner
Type
Movies
Released
2006
Runtime
91 min
Country
United States
Genres
Horror
Ratings
★ IMDb 5.8 · 83,065 ratings
Feels mostly
Fear
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