I'm sticking with the original because it more accurately demonstrates the kind of panicked fear that comes from being trapped in a house full of madmen, your friends butchered, and there's no sense of comfort or safety to be found. The remake has its moments, but its attempts to portray the family's madness come across more like tongue-in-cheek, wink at the camera quirkiness, and it never feels as honestly disturbing as watching the old man from the original insist he doesn't like violence, but starts to snicker and smile along with his family as they taunt a woman growing increasingly deranged by their sadism. R. Lee Ermy is putting on a fun role yes, but he's not playing any character we haven't seen him play a dozen times before, so his presence feels more camp than creepy. Ultimately I felt the cannibal family in the remake were just a bunch of assholes, and I was more invested in seeing them get their comeuppance than in feeling disturbed or frightened. And since said comeuppance is never delivered, what we have is an ending that just kinds of peters out into nothing. No resolution or satisfaction. The original ended with the main character barely escaping her captives, and while Leatherface wasn't dispatched it hardly mattered: you were relieved to see her finally escape, you felt as hysterically happy as she did to put the raging chainsaw wielding madman as far away from her as she possibly could, and when your thoughts are entirely preoccupied with escape rather than seeing the main character build some clever trap and spouting a one-liner at her tormenter like he's someone who just cut in front of her at the coffee shop, that's the mark of something truly scary.