LEATHERFACE (2017)

  Just like with Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN remake the brilliant idea here is to delve into the origin story of a movie villain that doesn't need a backstory. By 2017 there had already been 4 sequels to the original film(with really only Part 2 being entertaining and Part 3 already using the title of LEATHERFACE!), a terrible remake and then a prequel to the terrible remake so I guess a prequel to the original film would be just the perfect thing to add to the confusion of this series timeline. I'm not exactly sure how you make a movie that has bloody chainsaw killings, necrophilia, a good bit of blood and gore with a group of mental patients on a kill-crazy rampage so boring but they somehow managed to do exactly that. It's probably due to the fact that I never really cared about anyone in this film or what was going to happen to them. Our main character, besides young Leatherface(who they try and fool you with who exactly he is), is so non-descript that it was hard to sympathize even when she was in peril and that's the problem with every other character too. Now I'm stuck with the knowledge that Lili Taylor is Leatherface's mum and that just don't seem right. 

THE LOSERS (1970)

 Filmed in the Philippines where life is cheap! What you get here is a great mashup of a biker flick mixed with a Vietnam action movie. Not to be confused with THE BORN LOSERS from a few years earlier this one stars William Smith as the leader of a biker group called The Devils Advocates(which was also the name of the gang in RUN, ANGEL, RUN ) who get sent on a mission into Cambodia to free a prisoner of those filthy commies there. Vic Diaz shows up, of course, since we're in the Philippines and there's lots of gun-fu and huts exploding. 

 This movie was shown playing briefly in PULP FICTION which I'm sure boosted it's popularity amongst film nerds. 

AKA NAM ANGELS:

Known in Italy as A BUNCH OF BASTARDS:

and known in France as THE DEVIL'S MACHINES: