YMMV / The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

• Catharsis Factor: While it’s inevitable that Hoyt will survive this movie, given how much of a sadistic monster he is in this, seeing Dean slam his head into the ground several times for his troubles (which, by all accounts, really should’ve killed him) is extremely satisfying.
• Complete Monster: Also in the 2003 film; Charlie Hewitt, Jr., better known as Sheriff Hoyt, is a sadistic Korean War veteran who obtained a taste for human flesh. Murdering and replacing the true sheriff Hoyt in their derelict county, Hoyt uses his position to waylay travelers and direct them to his family so he can torture, butcher, and eat them. Abusing his own family at whim, including unnecessarily amputating his Uncle Monty's legs, Hoyt is gleeful in his brutal torture of others, such as forcing a runaway draftee for The Vietnam War to do pushups to escape all while Hoyt savagely beats him. Hoyt is also implied to rape captive women and enjoys psychologically tormenting his victims with fake executions before finally murdering them for real, often at the hands of Leatherface.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Dean, Eric and Bailey may all be supporting characters to Chrissie, whose focus is arguably secondary to Leatherface, but all three tend to be fairly popular and well-liked characters even by many detractors of the film.
• Fan-Preferred Cut Content: Many fans feel that the first (out of three) alternate endings is better than the final version, due to giving Chrisse a more ambiguous, Nothing Is Scarier fate compared to the Ass Pull one in the finished film and having a powerful and terrifying montage showcasing the scope and heartbreak of the Hewitts' future crimes.
• Fandom-Specific Plot: There's a few fanfiction stories out there where some, or even all, of the kids manage to get away from the Hewitts.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The beginning of the remake featured a traumatized girl who barely survived her implied but never actually shown encounter with Hewitts. Since this movie is a prequel to it, you'd think that it tells her story but she is absent entirely.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: the Hill brothers, Chrissie and Bailey are all interesting, well-acted characters who deserved better than to be Doomed by Canon.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: It's essentially a film where some well-acted and developed protagonists get put through some of the worst hell in the series. And all of them die in the end, which is a Foregone Conclusion for the audience given the film's prequel status.
• The Woobie: All four of the main victims have it pretty bad, being subject to horrific torture, cruel Hope Spots, and seeing loved ones die in front of them.