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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Next Generation (The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre) (1994)

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Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4

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In this third sequel to slasher classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, four Texas teens are abducted by a family of psychos on their way home from the senior prom. Bloodshed, torture, and intrigue ensue. Barry (Tyler Cone) and Sean (John Harrison) meet their fates quickly, but semi-bimbo Heather (Lisa Newmyer) lasts long enough to be tortured and burned before having her head cracked open like a walnut by a mechanical leg. Meanwhile, sweet, befuddled Jenny (Renee Zellweger) actively resists her

R, 1 hr. 27 min.

Horror

Kim Henkel

Jul 20, 1999

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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All Critics (29) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (24) | DVD (3)

Zellweger makes Jenny the most formidable scream queen since Jamie Lee Curtis went legit.

March 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment (1)
Variety
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From electric cattle prods to human infernos, it's an tough, rough ride.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Houston Chronicle
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Without much wit of its own, Kim Henkel's tyro film is just what the polished Scream makes fun of.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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The kind of cinematic endeavor where you suspect both cast and crew were obligated to bring their own beer.

January 1, 2000 Comment
USA Today
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Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey try to out-bad-act each other in the luridly abysmal third sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

October 7, 1994 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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Actually a fairly serviceable slasher flick up until a head-scratching last fifteen minutes that introduces and then fails to explain a series of plainly stupid plot twists.

October 24, 2008 Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | Comment
DustinPutman.com

Not just a complete failure as a sequel, it's one of the five or ten worst films from the whole of the 1990s.

June 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

For the most part you stare at the screen and wonder how anybody involved thought this could possibly have been any good.

August 3, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Tired and dated.

October 3, 2006 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A cheap rip-off with a story and ending that made no f-ing sense!

July 22, 2005 Comment
7M Pictures

You might wanna erase this from your CV's, guys?

May 4, 2005 Comment
Moviehole

Passable -- and much better than its reputation.

April 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment (1)
Filmcritic.com

McConaughey's over-the-top performance is brilliant, but not a single person actually gets killed with a chainsaw.

July 16, 2003 Comment (1)
New Times

A hoot to see Matt and Renee, but none of the thrills of the original. Not scary or fun.

July 14, 2003 Comment (1)
About.com

An A-list cast wallowing in grade-Z material

June 3, 2003 Comment
Lawrence Journal-World

Stick with the original and Chainsaw 2.

April 24, 2003 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

I thought this was crazy fun, minus the metal music.

December 24, 2002 Comment
Juicy Cerebellum

The bottom line is that the only Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie that you need is to see is the first.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comments (2)
Film Threat

Its wretchedness is so complete it can't help but attract bad-movie addicts the way a dead skunk draws flies.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Next Generation (The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

Pretty well a remake of the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, except done badly. Leatherface is now dressing up like a woman. Matthew McConaughey is playing the psycho brother role. The psycho with the metal leg was overly-complicated; we didn't need that. There's a hilarious woman called "Darla" in the family of

July 14, 2007
YosemiteSamFan

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I know I have said a lot of bad things about Land of the Dead, but this movie is far worse. I demand that you see this so-called remake and vommit as you watch this rape of the original!

May 23, 2006
Godless

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