Thomas, the name of a killer

So the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning was "bull shit" just like my Dad promised it would be. I probably didn't need to "see that piece of shit" (also Dad) but I did and I will never again. Nor will I go to Texas or eat meat or say anything remotely insensitive of someone who has a mental disability who wields a chainsaw because we all know what happened to the last 34 people who couldn't keep their mouths shut.

Here is a brief synopsis. It's 1939 and America has reached the bitter end of the Great Depression. The only industry in a barely-there town in Texas is the meat packing plant. The movie opens with a woman meat packer on the job and pregnant, writhing with labor pains. The boss refuses to let her take a break as her water breaks and she collapses to the floor. She passes out in a massive pile of blood and amniotic fluid as the boss rushes to her side. She dies but the mutant-baby pushes himself free. The boss tosses the baby in the dumpster and a woman eating tossed-aside scraps of meat finds him and takes him home in a piece of meat-packing paper. They call him Thomas and over the course of the opening credits, the audience sees his adopted father "operating" on Thomas' deformed face and Thomas killing animals and making their raw skin into masks. Thirty years later, Thomas' father gets word from the town's last remaining sheriff that the meat packing plant where his son is employed (the same plant where he was born) is closed indefinitely by the health department and that Thomas, in a rage, had massacred the boss in protest. Thomas's father and the sheriff find Thomas on the road, chainsaw in hand. The sheriff hops out of the car and attempts to coax him in to the back. Thomas's father, in defense of his son and his town, grabs the rifle on the sheriff's dash and shoots him point blank in the face. Thomas's father puts on the sheriff's uniform, asks his son to chop up the sheriff, and the family eats him in a bloody stew. Thomas's father is the law now and he insists on being called Sheriff Hoyt.

Meanwhile, two twenty-something couples embark on a road trip to an army base camp from which the two men will be deployed to Vietnam. A run in with a rather large Holstein rolls their jeep during a chase with a rifle wielding motorcycle wench. When "Sheriff Hoyt" enters the scene to inspect the situation, he kills the motorcycle wench, ties up the co-eds in the back of his car, and tortures them at his mansion for a solid 45 minutes of movie. One girl, thrown from the accident, watches the scene from a bush but winds up at the mansion and under the table where her boyfriend is chainsawed. Thomas also rips off his face and wears it as his own. Then, they eat him. During the last three minutes, the last girl alive, determined to avenge the deaths of her friends, winds up at the meat packing plant and escapes in the boss's car. The proper authority in sight, she is sure she's in the clear UNTIL, Thomas pops up in the backseat and runs his chainsaw through the driver's side seat and through her abdomen. It was sick. I knew it was coming. And I screamed bloody murder. The End.

Christian is singing to a symphony orchestra track right now. He has amazing projection.