Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995)

October 22, 2022 7:49 AM

Jenny (Renee Zellweger) and her friends get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night, and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface (Robert Jacks), Vilmer (Matthew McConaughey), and their insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths. Aka The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Written & directed by Kim Henkel, who wrote the screenplay for Toby Hooper's original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

16% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Currently available in the US for digital rental on multiple outlets. JustWatch listing.

posted by DirtyOldTown (2 comments total)

Fucking bonkers. It plays like someone pulled Kim Henkel out of a rehab meeting twenty years after writing the original screenplay and asked what came next, only to receive a loony tale of conspiracy. McConaughey and Zellweger can't quite figure out what kind of acting to do here, so they both sort of go for the most acting.

Scenery-chewing and bonkers chaos all around. I... unabashedly love this?
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:51 AM on October 22, 2022

Also damn you, autocorrect for changing "Tobe" to "Toby "
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:56 AM on October 22, 2022