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This film kind of gave me the feeling as though I'd seen something I wasn't supposed to, like a snuff film or something... everything about it has that dirty, grimy vibe that is perfect for leaving you completely sickened.

Surprisingly, despite all that, there are actually quite a few shots that are very pretty, in particular the final scene is so nice I'd actually like to do a painting of it!

It's true that there maybe isn't a lot to the story or characters, but it's not really about that, and in fact I think this is one time where that actually works for the better, because there's literally nothing else to focus on other than the atmosphere. Plus, the lack of character depth makes it even more clear that these people are nothing more than disposable cattle, just like the poor wee cows that they drove past early on in the film.

Also, while obviously Leatherface is a great and iconic villain, I have to give a mention to the Hitchhiker too, because he made me seriously uncomfortable every time he was on screen!

I don't know if it's my fault ( it probably is) or Amazon Prime's, but I haven't been able to get their subtitles working lately, which means that due to the 'intense' whisper-acting throughout much this film (and my terrible hearing), I had no idea what was going on most of the time. However, the bits of the story that I did manage to catch, were beyond ridiculous.

I can't lie though, some of the sillier story beats actually caught me off guard and made me laugh a few times, so that's something to acknowledge.

Apart from that, pretty much the only other thing I enjoyed about the film was the music. It was great! Or rather, it was great during the banging techno tunes... but it was not great when they abruptly cut off said techno anthems to go back to the same bored, droning wail that repeated in just about every scene.

I do find it quite amusing that Rotten Tomatoes, for example, lists this as their worst rated film of all time. I mean, it's not "good" by any stretch, but come on, if you're going to talk 'worst ever made', you've got to dive a bit deeper into the bad movie depths than one which for the most part, just feels like any other bland action/spy film.

And ok, maybe its blandness could be why it is so despised, which is fair. In my opinion, the absolute worst quality any piece of entertainment can have is to be boring. However, even then, I'm pretty sure I could name 20 movies off the top of my head that I found far more boring than this one. There are films out there so desperately dull that they've genuinely sent me to sleep (Baby Geniuses 2), or kept my face frozen off from emotion for the entire running time (Star Wars Holiday Special), but this one actually has a few bits to laugh at.

Mind you, I don't want to sound as though I'm giving too much praise to this thing, it's still dreadful.