#Marietta Marich

[veryslowreader]

The Last Lion by William Manchester

Rushmore

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2013)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a vile, sadistic film where gore replaces potential scares. It’s predictable, poorly written and doesn't show anything worth seeing, even to those who liked the 2003 film it serves as a prequel to.

Set four years before the events of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake), the hulking Thomas Hewitt (Andrew Bryniarski) is working at a slaughterhouse. When the health department orders its closure, the people surrounding it pack up their things and leave - all except for Luda Mae (Marietta Marich), Uncle Monty (Terrence Evans), and Charlie Hewitt (R. Lee Ermey), who are determined to stay. If cannibalism is the only way to survive, then so be it. We witness the origin of “Leatherface” as brothers Eric (Matt Bomer) and Dean (Taylor Handley), along with their girlfriends Chrissie (Jordana Brewster) and Bailey (Diora Baird) pass through the town.

This is one of the most prequel-y prequels I’ve ever seen. We learn how the Hewitts developed their taste for human flesh, why Uncle Monty is in a wheelchair, how R. Lee Ermey’s character became the sheriff and why he has dentures, who Leatherface's mother was, where he was born, we witness his first murder, find out why he makes masks, and more. If there was a detail from the 2003 remake you never wondered about, it receives an origin story. We see cows in fields surrounding the town, which means the Hoyt’s would rather eat people than hamburgers? So what if it makes no sense?

The Beginning is also one of the most by-the-numbers, clichéd horror movies you’ve ever seen. The characters are simply there to get chopped up and have no personalities beyond what is required for you to remember who is still alive and who is now dead. You don’t care about anyone, and I mean ANYONE at all, making this an extremely dull experience. All it’s essentially doing is interrupting the prequel moments with the same beats we’ve seen in every single Texas Chainsaw movie since the original sequel in 1986.

General incompetence oozes from every frame of this film by Jonathan Liebesman (Darkness Falls, Battle: Los Angeles). The suspense is nonexistent and since we couldn’t care less about who lives or who dies, there aren't any scares either. You’ll want to close your eyes often though, as the film lingers on the gore constantly. I know “massacre” is in the title but did we need to see a human being vivisected while still alive? It might be disturbing but scary? No. How could anyone care when we already know none of these people will make it out alive - this would contradict the events of the other film. This means the picture is free to indulge in tropes we thought we’d left behind years ago such as “the killer is hiding in the back seat”!

Say what you will about the decline in quality the Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th series saw, but some of the follow-ups were actually good or could be enjoyed ironically. Average out the rating these Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies have been receiving. That's a scary thought. This may be the worst-faring slasher franchise out there. Wish me luck as we proceed with the rest. (Unrated version on DVD, February 15, 2019)

[byneddiedingo]

Robert John Burke and Bill Sage in Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)

Cast: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan, Mark Chandler Bailey, Chris Cooke, Jeffrey Howard, Holly Marie Combs, Joe Stevens, Damian Young, Marietta Marich, John MacKay. Screenplay: Hal Hartley. Cinematography: Michael Spiller. Production design: Daniel Ouellette. Film editing: Steve Hamilton. Music: Yo La Tengo, Hal Hartley. 

When does style become mannerism? As I work my way chronologically through the Criterion Channel's Hal Hartley retrospective, I find myself beginning to ask that question. Because Simple Men seems to me to show some atrophy in the deadpan, off-beat style that Hartley established in his first films, a kind of predictable unpredictability, if you will. We sense that nothing in the movie will turn out quite right, that it may not even end but just stop. Granted, I'm comfortable with the eccentricity of Hartley's narrative and characters, and I laughed out loud at several points in the film. I particularly enjoyed, for example, the character of the sheriff of the small Long Island town where the protagonists, as usual in Hartley's films, wind up. Played by Damian Young, the sheriff is a kind of walking thesaurus, a cynical, irritable officer of the law who delights in parsing what's said to him into an endless string of mocking synonyms. And I enjoyed the irruption of a musical number into the story, as the players dance to Sonic Youth's "Kool Thing." But it also felt like a needed break in the slow plod of the narrative. With his earlier films I felt that Hartley was challenging us with some ideas about family and relationships. Simple Men hinges on a family situation, two brothers in search of their father, and there are budding relationships, Bill (Robert John Burke) with Kate (Karen Sillas) and Dennis (Bill Sage) with Elina (Elina Löwensohn), but they are so abstractly conceived that it's hard to get involved in them. At its worst, which is mercifully not very often, Simple Men seems to be an exercise in quirk for quirk's sake.  

[vizual-demon]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

(2006) dir. Jonathan Liebesman

[therealmrpositive]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

In today's review, I head back to the start, as I attempt a #positive review of the 2006 origins of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning #AndrewBryniarski #R.LeeErmey #JordanaBrewster #TaylorHandley #MattBomer #DioraBaird #LeeTergesen #TerrenceEvans

The age-old question of what makes these unspeakable people do unspeakable things is a lucrative quandary. Podcasts, Documentaries, and deep criminological studies all dedicated much thought to the discussion, Fiction also devotes a lot of thought to this, with origin stories aplenty attempting to shine lights on what made their captivating characters so bewitching. In 2006, a prequel film was…

[rrrauschen]

Hal Hartley, {1992} Simple Men

[movieometer]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

So this is interesting, because it’s a prequel. It’s supposed to detail the events leading up to the events of the previous movie, and why Leatherface does what he does, and how the family came to be. It starts out with his birth, and it’s interesting to see that he was an abandoned baby with absolutely no relation to the family. Also interesting how the sheriff became the sheriff (hint: he murdered the real one and assumed his identity). This movie could have been done better. The story could have been more interesting. They linger on Leatherface’s early life for maybe 5 minutes. Interesting note: I saw this movie in theaters when I was just barely 14, at a theater that didn’t card kids, and it gave me my very first migraine - specifically the scene with the girlfriend hiding under the table her boyfriend is strapped to. It still makes me sick.

Rating: F. Matt Bomer looks completely unrecognizable.

[slashingdisneypasta]

Aesthetic: Actors complimenting other actors on their work. Like all other artists, the highest compliment for them to give to anyone, is to say they're great, phenomenal, or absolutely mind blowing, at their beloved art.

[meat-husband]

Ok but have you seen pictures of young Marietta Marich (Luda Mae actress) ???? She was a gorgeous starlet back in the day. I'm just imagining those pictures hung around the TCM house lol

I have!! I think it was on some of the extras from the prequel, but she looks beautiful! I don’t know why, but I always figured she was blonde so it surprised me to see she had dark hair. Imagine Luda Mae pulling out a whole photo book of glamour shots though lol.

[living-deadx-girlx]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) Marietta Marich said the ‘surgery scene’ was so realistic that it was very hard to watch

[starsheight]

Marietta Marich Height

5 feet 6 inches (170.6 cm)

American singer, actress, and writer; prominent for the American comedy-drama film “Leap of Faith.” In a newspaper, Marietta Marich claims, “I’m 5ft 6in.”

[therealmrpositive]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

In today's review, I look back to a simpler time of chainsaw-wielding killers. As I attempt a #positive review of the 2003 reboot of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre #JessicaBiel #JonathanTucker #EricaLeerhsen #MikeVogel #EricBalfour #AndrewBryniarski

Nostalgia has been a powerful force for quite some time now. From fond memories of a past that never existed to the esteemed regard of classic characters. The dollar value in bringing back these recognisable elements in a new context will always be there, whether in the 2020s or even at the dawn of the century. In 2003, after a nine-year hiatus, Platinum Dunes resurrected Leatherface but started…

[jonnvelasquezphoto]

1/10

[hmuncut]

Heading our way April 1st is the new supernatural thriller from director David Mun and writer Blu de Golyer House of Good and Evil. It’s already gotten some good press and won best film at the 2013 Twin Rivers Media Festival. The film stars Marietta Marich (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning), Rachel Marie Lewis (Beacon Point), Christian Oliver (Speed Racer), Jordan Rhodes (The Indian Runner) and Bo Keister (Killing Kennedy).

It hits DVD shelves this April 1st from Phase 4 Films and we have four awesome new clips for you to see!

After losing their unborn child, Chris and Maggie escape the pressures of the city to live in a secluded country home. But soon Maggie begins to experience strange events in this mind-bending countryside horror about dedication, grief, and insanity.

  Trailer:

  4 Clips

CLIP 1

CLIP 2

CLIP 3

CLIP 4

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Z3JLSe5wk

  Images from House of Good And Evil

Images from House of Good And Evil

Images from House of Good And Evil

one sheet for House of Good and Evil

We already have the films so look for a review on this soon!

  Welcome To The ‘House Of Good And Evil’ Heading our way April 1st is the new supernatural thriller from director David Mun and writer Blu de Golyer House of Good and Evil.

[living-deadx-girlx]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) Marietta Marich came up with the idea to sing ‘Hush, Little Baby’ to Bailey at the dinner table, which director Jonathan Liebesman though was one of the creepiest things in the movie