Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
1994 Directed by Kim Henkel
Synopsis
If looks could kill he woudn't need a chainsaw.
Everyone's favorite chainsaw-wielding psychopath, Leatherface, is back for more prom-night gore, and this time he's joined by his bloodthirsty family. Four stranded yet carefree teens are taken in by a backwoods family, clueless of their host family's grisly habits. The terrified youths, including sweet Jenny, try to escape from Leatherface and his crazed clan, including the bionic Vilmer.
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There's some hysterical line readings and McConaughey is boss. This McConaughey needs to steal more films. This McConaughey needs to anchor more films. The rest is shit and goes on way too long.
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Horroctober 2012Well, first, I'm gonna kill you. It ain't no fuckin biggie. Of course, it's different for every individual.
-VilmerI finished watching this a few hours ago and I'm still speechless. I'm not quite sure what I witnessed. The film is made with so little respect of what came before on so many levels. Just judging it as a stand alone "film" it's complete and utter trash. Judging it as a horror or Texas Chainsaw Massacre fan, it's complete and utter trash.
The film is filled with stupid characters and bad acting. Horror fans however can often put up with that just to view some gore, exaggerated kills, a cool killer, or just some kind of…
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Bridget Jones in a prom dress + McConaughey with a bionic leg + cross-dressing Leatherface + a lot of screaming and no gore = a film that's so bad it's, well, really bad.
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Matthew McConaughey has a Bionic Leg. Renee Zellweger is hilariously bad. Leatherface is a crossdresser, and although the film is called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, no one is killed with a chainsaw. This should make it a terrible film and it really is, but I wasn't bored at all and I actually have tons of fun with it. This just might be the worst film I've seen that I love, if that makes sense.
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Having recently gone through the 80s Texas Chainsaw output, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is to me a very familiar story that offers no surprises. Teens in Texas are abducted by a cannibalistic family and have to fight their way out of captivity to escape a gruesome death. Some survive but most of them don't.
As could be seen in Killer Joe, Matthew McConaughey knows how to tap into his inner psycho and unleash it convincingly. Here he proves that he had the technique down long before that. Vilmer Slaughter is a more unpredictable and seemingly lethal character than Leatherface himself in this film. Sadly that's the only really good thing about Texas 4. Its other big name, Renee…
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This movie is like a puppy - it's so damn stupid that you can't get mad at it. A inept hodgepodge of ideas from the other TCM films. The only thing worth watching about this is Matthew McConauhey (who's fantastic as always).
Also, they turned Latherface into a drag queen for no reason. I knew he was a drag queen here, but I always assumed they told us why. Nope. Furthermore, classic Leatherface is big in a stocky way. He's tall, built and generally strong. This Leatherface is... pudgy. More Divine than Gunnar Hansen,
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It seems like underneath all the mind-meltingly boring garbage in this film there's a really interesting meta satire of the Texas Chainsaw movies (and horror in general) but it's buried way too deep and it'd take a much better writer/director to dig it out.
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Leatherface sawing down trees, chasing Renee Zellweger through swamps and up roofs. So underrated.
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Having recently gone through the 80s Texas Chainsaw output, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is to me a very familiar story that offers no surprises. Teens in Texas are abducted by a cannibalistic family and have to fight their way out of captivity to escape a gruesome death. Some survive but most of them don't.
As could be seen in Killer Joe, Matthew McConaughey knows how to tap into his inner psycho and unleash it convincingly. Here he proves that he had the technique down long before that. Vilmer Slaughter is a more unpredictable and seemingly lethal character than Leatherface himself in this film. Sadly that's the only really good thing about Texas 4. Its other big name, Renee…
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El guionista de la TCM original intenta reinventar la saga como director, ignorando las secuelas anteriores y añadiendo un curioso giro metanarrativo que parodia y a la vez reivindica la película del 74. El resultado es un caos absoluto con una primera mitad aburrida que repite casi al calco la original y una segunda mitad absurda que puede hacer que muchos tiren la toalla. Muy poco violenta en realidad, opta por lo grotesco en su forma de retratar a Leatherface como un travesti, pero a su vez no hace referencia alguna al canibalismo. Es más famosa hoy por contar con dos grandes estrellas hollywoodenses en sus inicios, y por ser un auténtico desastre.
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I reviewed Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation as part of the panel on Now Playing Podcast's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movie Retrospective Series:
For the 20th anniversary of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1994, Kim Henkel, writer of the 1974 classic, returned to write and direct the franchise's fourth installment. Starring then-unknown actors Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey, this film would be shelved for years before finally being quietly shunted to VHS in 1997. But with the original writer back at the helm, is this Leatherface's return to glory, bringing terror to a new generation of horror fans? Listen to Arnie, Brock, and Stuart's review of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation to find out!
http://www.nowplayingpodcast.com/archives/npptcm04.php
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So i've put off watching this for years...purely because of how bad i'd always heard it was. And I know you shouldn't let other folks opinions sway you from watching a movie, but I love the first 3 Chainsaws, and even though some fan reaction from the first two sequels is mixed I havent come across one person that likes The Next Generation.
And now that I've seen it i'm not surprised. It's terrible, and once again strengthens my theory that the original 'Chain saw' was a right time/right place/right people scenario. Look at Tobe Hoopers filmography, nothing ever came close to that movie. And here you've got the writer of the original, writing and directing this movie. And in…
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Just a freakin' train wreck. No wonder Renee Zellweger didn't want this released. (I have a hard time believing Matthew McConnaghey cared, but maybe his agent fought against this release, too.) Terrible.
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My Atlantic piece on future stars' beginnings in horror flicks is here.
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This pathetic fourth entry in the series was shown, probably shamefacedly, at a few festivals and then shelved until 1997, when it got a limited theatrical run to capitalize on the success of its stars, Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey. Until then, die-hard Leatherface fans (like me) had to track down bootleg tapes struck from the Japanese laserdisc. I can't imagine anyone thought it was worth the effort or the wait. This makes the previous two sequels look like Citizen Kane, and is little more than a pale Xerox of the first movie's plot.
The saddest part is that Kim Henkel, co-writer of the original, is fully to blame for this mess. (The pompous trailer, as found on the Texas…