

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
What you know about fear... doesn't even come close.
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $16M
- Box office
- $50.5M
- Language
- English
- war veteran
- sadism
- psychopath
- mass murder
- gore
- knife
- biker
- prequel
- murder
- serial killer
- leatherface
- slaughterhouse
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereLos Angeles, California5 Oct 2006
- TheatricalR6 Oct 2006
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1813 Oct 2006
United Arab EmiratesAE
- PhysicalBlu-ray6 Jul 2010
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalR18+16 Nov 2006
CanadaCA
- Theatrical18A6 Oct 2006
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical1812 Oct 2006
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical7 Feb 2007
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1824 Nov 2006
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical9 Mar 2007
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical16 Nov 2006
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1510 Nov 2006
EgyptEG
- Theatrical4 Apr 2007
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning was released on 5 October 2006.
Audience reviews
1- J5/10
JPV852
9/8/2025
I saw this film when it first came out on DVD back in 2006 or 07 and didn't think much of it. And my opinion pretty much remains, some great and gnarly gore that rode the line from horror to torture porn, but R. Lee Ermey was greatly sadistic and, as with Jessica Biel in TCM '05, the camera focused pretty well on Jordana Brewster's ass. I thought this one didn't have any memorable characters to make me care about the…
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