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 Back at it again for another round of posting. For this piece I was deciding between talking about Capcom's Pragmata, or this Texas Chainsaw Massacre idea I had in my head, and Texas won. It's not because there's anything wrong with Pragmata, but I felt like this would be more interesting. Without further ado, let's talk about family once again.  In the last month or so, I had finally got around to watching Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. Two flawed films that signaled the downward trend for the franchise. However, they weren't nearly as bad as the later films, in my opinion. Like, TCM III had bright spots with Ken Foree's performance as Benny, and Viggo Mortensen's Tex. While TCM: TNG had the "Pretty Lady" evolution with Leatherface (Played by Robert Jacks) and Tonie Perensky's Darla. But the overall products failed to match the rawness of the original TCM, or the evolution that T...

 Given my indecisiveness leading up to this week's post, I decided to look at influencing in movies. A pretty general topic that let's me jump around to different things and describe what works and what doesn't work from these influences. Whether that be wholesale ripping something off, or using another piece of media or news story as a springboard. This is about the pieces that shape a work. To ease into this topic, I am going to use A Nightmare on Elm Street as an example. The film was made in response to Wes Craven seeing the deaths of Hmong Refugees in the news. Seemingly random deaths that were most likely caused by the usage of chemical weapons. But the jumping off point for Craven wasn't the horrors of war, it was the hallucinations, and unwillingness to sleep that caught his attention. So, the film was born out of this fear of a boogeyman that haunts your dreams. Even the look of Freddy was based upon a random guy Craven saw when he was a child.  The core idea b...