Saw the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre last night. They basically copied David Gordon Green's Halloween by having it act as a direct sequel to the original TCM with Sally Hardesty (the sole survivor from the original) returning for vengeance, as she'd been hunting Leatherface for 50 odd years. Leatherface has been dormant, like Myers, until something happens and he goes on a rampage again.
The movie was really well shot and the splatter was some 10/10 shit. Gorehounds will love it for that aspect and lovers of aesthetics will appreciate the use of silhouettes, lighting, shapes, colours etc.
But the script was total and complete dogshit, like a FOX News caricature of young woke liberalism. Completely lacks any of the subtextual depth of the first film, any of the satirical black comedy of the first sequel. The screenwriter (who hasn't done anything else, surprise surprise) is clearly several levels below the cinematographer and so it makes for a very weird frustrating experience.
At one point before Leatherface kills some hipsters, one of them threatens to "cancel" him while his phone is out and filming. I almost switched it off there, but the pattern of this film is to hit you with utterly garbage writing and then immediately hit you with insanely well-crafted splatter.
If the script and dialogue were as good as David Gordon Green's Halloween (I know, a low bar) this would be a pretty legitimately great, visually impressive modern horror. Instead it's more like a mediocre anti-woke teen drama mashed with an insanely graphic splatterfest. Also Leatherface's mask was meh.