5 Upcoming Horror Movies That Will Disappoint (And 5 That Could Be Great)

There is, as we all know, only one Texas Chainsaw reboot/spinoff/whatever worth watching, and that’s Tobe Hooper’s awesome The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, which sought to make fun of the critics who missed the black humour in the original film. Each subsequent film was directed by a clod unskilled at either horror or humour, and none are worth your time.

A prequel to the first film, Leatherface is directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, who made Inside (2007), one of the best French horror pictures of the last decade. Their more recent Among The Living (2014), was considerably less impressive, so let’s hope those crazy Frenchmen have decided to push the envelope for their first English language feature.

Particularly interesting is the casting: Lili Taylor (in a role originally earmarked for Angela Bettis) is the matriarch of the infamous Sawyer clan and Stephen Dorff is the unhinged lawman intent on tracking down teenaged Leatherface, who’s just absconded from the loony bin with 3 other inmates.

Will it blow the opposition away or just blow? Watch this space.