Texas Chainsaw Massacre (New Line Cinema) (ISBN 1844160602)

Pretty Good Adaptation:
This book is a pretty good adaptation of the screenplay by Scott Koslar. Stephen Hand doesn't copy the movie on the screen, but the movie the way the screenplay was orginally written. Overall I think it is a great book and adaptation of the movie.

Creepy!!!:
Is This Like The movie? I Was Wondering If It's Like The Old Or New One? And If It's Like The Old One At The End Does It Have The Girl Go In The Track With Latherface Having A Fit?

The Texas Remake Massacre:
Sorry, the title just came to mind and I felt i had to use it. This book isn't brilliant, it is a bit muddled, with exclamation points and capital sentences where it's not needed, but if you just read it without paying attention to it, it's not that bad a book. Unfortunately, I just feel at the end it could of been better.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a really good book. It was based on the new TCM (2003). If you read the book and think it's better than the original movie than just wiat until you see the new movie!

Passable adaptation of a passable movie.:
Other than the induction of the crazy Sheriff Hoyt (memorably played by R. Lee Emery) into the horror villain pantheon the 30th Anniversary remake of Tobe Hooper's classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre really did not have much to offer. It was just another slick and empty slasher movie that resembled the dozens of TCM knock-offs that have cluttered the grindhouses, drive-ins and video rental shelves since the original film's release. A group of youths (each of a distinct stereotype) are returning from Mexico, via a trip to Dallas to catch a rock concert, when they almost run over a disoriented girl walking in the middle of the road. The traumatized girl commits suicide in their van and that is only the beginning of the nightmare as they search for help, but only find the persons responsible for putting the delirious-with-fear girl into her final mental state. There are a few minor differences in the story (mainly Henrietta living alone in the trailer rather than with yet another member of the crazy clan) and an odd anti-meat stance, which basically infers that anyone who delights in the eating of meat is no different than any of the Hewitt's. Was the term Vegan even around in 1973, when this story is supposed to take place? I don't recall hearing it until the nineties, at the earliest. Fans of the movie might enjoy reading this, but it really isn't an improvement on the experience of the film - which wasn't all that to begin with.