First Trailer for 'Texas Chainsaw 3D'

If there's one thing I can afford the sweaty, sun-kissed remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from 2003 (starring Jessica Biel), it's that the film at least had a sense of atmosphere, of grimy production design and seething dread. Ten years later audiences will be *treated* to Texas Chainsaw 3D, an entry so seemingly bland and sterile and by-the-numbers that it really makes me wonder why they haven't just tossed in a half-baked version of the found-footage conceit and called it a day (oh, wait, the 3D surcharges...). Texas Chainsaw 3D opens January 4, 2013 and stars Alexandra Daddario, Scott Eastwood, Dan Yeager, Bill Moseley, Tremaine "Trey Songz" Neverson, and Tania Raymonde (a familiar face from Lost). Trailer and synopsis below.

Lionsgate's TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic left off in Newt, Texas, where for decades people went missing without a trace. The townspeople long suspected the Sawyer family, owners of a local barbeque pit, were somehow responsible. Their suspicions were finally confirmed one hot summer day when a young woman escaped the Sawyer house following the brutal murders of her four friends. Word around the small town quickly spread, and a vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer stronghold, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family--or so they thought. Decades later and hundreds of miles away from the original massacre, a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew she had. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion's dank cellars...