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It's 1974, a year after what became known as the Texas Chainsaw
Massacre. A small group of FBI agents arrive in Travis County
to carry out a cold-case investigation of the incident. One
of them has a personal interest in the sickening events which
took place. When they come across an underground tunnel littered
with bodies they realise the nightmare is far from over. Furthermore,
no back-up is available, because they are all busy on the
Watergate incident. Some of the corpses are fresh and have
had 'prime cuts ' taken from them. Meanwhile, a minor TV news
crew has arrived at the notorious Blair Meat Processing Plant,
and already one of their number is missing...
Straight
away let me say that fans of the more sick and brutal end
of the horror spectrum will love this. The story by Dan Abnett
and Andy Lanning is written as a sequel to the 2003 film.
Everything you would expect and more is here in graphic colour
print: a cattle prod, a chainsaw fight, severed limbs, meat
cleavers, meat hooks, to name but a few. In an attempt to
tie-in with the original film, there is a cannibal family
dinner scene, complete with a close-up of the victim's eyes,
and an ending similar to that film, but with a twist.
I
didn't like the artwork as much as the recently reviewed A
Nightmare on Elm Street
graphic novel, but Wes Craig's objective may have been to
create a twisted and off-kilter feel to the proceedings. In
fact, every character here looks somewhat sinister, even the
good guys. Tobe Hooper's first Chainsaw movie was both
hard-hitting but subtle enough to suggest as much as what
it actually showed. This novel is certainly 'graphic', displaying
every piece of violence in detail, and could therefore be
described as overkill.
These
graphic novel representations of classic horror films (published
by Wildstorm, an imprint of DC, and distributed by Titan Books)
are proving to be of a high quality. But bear in mind they
are targeted at a mature readership (at least age-wise!) and
are as likely to gross- out the uninitiated as a hack and
slash movie.
Ty
Power
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