jackvictore What a cast! Renée Zellweger? Matthew McConaughey? Not exactly the cast I would picture in a film about crazy redneck murderers. Same classic (classy?) leather faced masked man and his hillbilly, my-name-is-Mud, crazed family. Matthew McConaughey has no trouble acting as a killer. A character who would fit right in at a Donald Trump rally. He never does explain why he hates all these prom-swagged early 90s teens. Maybe he had abusive parents, maybe he's never had the opportunity to be educated and he is jealous of the kids, we may never know. There are moments when he is physically quite rough with the women in this film. Surprisingly there isn't actually much gore for a movie about a massacre. There is however a lot of abuse. I give this movie 5 bags of popcorn. For a truly immersive experience watch this movie on prom night!

TheRedDeath30 I am a huge fan of horror. I'm the sort of viewer that tracks down obscure movies that most people have never heard about before. In all of my travels through the world of horror, my absolute favorite film still remains THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE. So, it is with some embarrassment that I admit I am also a big fan of the sequels. As a horror fan, you have to generally accept that sequels are rarely good and never match up to the original. The further into a series you get, the lower the quality generally continues to drop. Generally, these movies can make up for it somewhat by upping the body count or going way over the top in the plot lines.I say all of this to acknowledge that I love the Chainsaw series. I own this movie on DVD. I know that horror sequels are usually bad. Yet, this movie is REALLY BAD. I mean, it makes other horror sequels look good in comparison. There is really nothing redeeming about this movie that I can even say, it's bad but..No, it's just bad.We can start with the obvious horror fan complaint that the body count is pretty low in this movie and what deaths we do see on screen are low-key, boring and not inventive at all. There is very little gore, no atmosphere and no real scares to be had. The original is actually pretty low on gore, as well, but viewers hardly noticed because of the terrifying atmosphere established by director Tobe Hooper. Without that atmosphere to lean back on, a movie like this usually has to give the audience something else, but sadly fails to do that.The movie can't decide if it's a sequel or a remake, so goes for some mixed up combination of the two. It remakes many of the iconic scenes of the original (the hook in the back, the window escape, the dinner party) but these are such pale imitations that it just makes the movie look even worse in comparison. The biggest factor in this is that the characters are just awful. I'm not speaking of the acting necessarily, but they're just never given anything to do. Renee Zellwegger is the greatest example of this. She might be the worst final girl in the history of horror. Not really because Zellwegger fails to act up to the part, but because the part is so horribly written. There is no real background given to her, no character development, no emotion almost at all. She is simply a plot contrivance for things to happen to and around, but never really feels like an involved part of anything.The one solid thing about this is McConaughey who plays the only character that's worth of the TCM family. Yet even this character becomes a joke in the end as we have the ridiculous plot device of him having a bio-mechanical leg constructed from old wires and a vacuum cleaner that is, for some reason, controlled by old television remotes. Yes, a sinister organization would replace a leg yet make it controllable by generic remotes. There is no biological reasoning for this. It serves only as a stupid plot tool so that several characters can control him using one of the multitude of handy extra remotes lying around the home.We won't even get started on the ludicrous Illuminati plot. It's so bad, I think writer Kim Henkel was actually trying to make it bad. It's almost like the rights would revert back to someone if they could make a sequel that was so horrible it would sink the franchise forever.I still watch this every few years when I go through an inevitable TCM marathon, but each time I'm a little more embarrassed that I own this on DVD. It's really just plain awful.

KineticSeoul This movie is bad, sometimes laughably bad. It's basically a rehash of the 3rd one, except way way more cheesy and corny. Even for a horror movie, characters making decisions that doesn't make any sense goes into another level. There is just random stupidity riddled around this movie. It has Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey, but that doesn't even help this movie at all. Matthew McConaughey is usually good at playing psychotic southern maniac so he fit right into his role with this one. Seriously, how many psychotic relatives does the creepy grandpa have anyways? Maybe I am missing something, but didn't that creepy old guy die in the third one? They even made Leatherface a pizza eating transvestite...Seriously. I am not sure, if they intentionally made this movie bad, but it's downright bad. I give this movie a 2.3 because although it's in the awful category I was able to sit through it without having that huge urge to just leave. But that really isn't saying much. The acting in a lot of parts is just laughably bad, like they were intentionally not trying. It doesn't even have the entertainment value to sit with a group of friends and just roast it. In another words, it doesn't add anything to the table. This is a simple and yet confusing movie that just doesn't make any sense. And it's filled with awful ideas, seriously it has Leatherface the pizza eating transvestite? This is the sequel that killed off this franchise, until the reboot. It's better to just skip this one, it has absolutely no relation to the previous movies of this franchise.2.3/10

stephanieroadcap75 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is just horrible. The plot revolves around the most annoying teenagers ever(with the exception of one girl) getting into a car wreck in the woods after leaving their high school prom early and running into Leatherface and his family.This movie has virtually no redeeming qualities, the dialogue is horrible AT BEST, the acting is atrocious, and worst of all, the villains in this movie are not at all intimidating.Leatherface in this movie is played by Robert Jacks, who screams and whines throughout his time on screen and wears dresses. There's some gruesome scenes of torture, but that doesn't make the film scary. there's also some stupid subplot about a secret society that forces the chainsaw family to commit their crimes, which just adds to the stupidity of the film. The only redeeming quality of this film is Renee Zellweger's character, but even she isn't given much to do. My advice is whether you are a fan of this series or not, avoid part 4 at all costs!