The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    1995

    Synopsis

    When a helpful family invites two lost couples in for a good ol' down-home massacre, the prom night teens find themselves all dressed up... with no place to escape.

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    Cast

    • Renée ZellwegerJenny
    • Matthew McConaugheyVilmer
    • Robert JacksLeatherface
    • Tonie PerenskyDarla
    • Joe StevensW.E.
    • Lisa Marie NewmyerHeather
    • John HarrisonSean
    • Tyler Shea ConeBarry
    • James GaleRothman
    • Chris KilgoreRothman's Chauffeur

    Recommendations

    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      A flick so terrifying and brilliant that it makes the two other Chainsaw sequels seem like After-School Specials. [20 May 1995, p.E6]
    • 75

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Nothing at all is surprising about Next Generation except how enjoyable it is. It won't become a classic, but is quite a hoot, like the cockamamie Motel Hell, as funny as it is frightening. [29 Aug 1997, p.32]
    • 63

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      The other thing that sets this movie apart from the current crop of tongue-in-cheek screamers (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream) is that it's actually perversely intriguing, rather than just clever. [03 Nov 1997, p.C2]
    • 60

      Variety

      Manages the difficult feat of being genuinely scary and sharply self-satirical all at once.
    • 50

      Austin Chronicle

      Bits and pieces of the story will, on occasion, leave you scratching your head but it, nevertheless, moves rapidly enough to keep you scurrying to keep pace with the new business at hand.
    • 50

      The New York Times

      Its own efforts to be tongue-in-cheek, as with a backwoods gunman who quotes Emerson and Machiavelli, fall seriously flat. But should anyone have the patience to look closely, the two leading players do show signs of what would soon make them famous.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      Henkel's directing debut isn't incompetent: It's just derivative, pointless and tediously repetitive.
    • 50

      The A.V. Club

      A slightly above-average slasher film that's only partially redeemed by small but endearingly loopy shreds of black humor.