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I had a few glasses of wine and let me just tell you that this made me laugh so hard my stomach hurt. Probably not worth it if you don't have alcohol handy. By the way... Renee and Matthew have OSCARS. THEY HAVE OSCARS and they were IN THIS FILM. So , never give up, okay hunny? <3

Well said, Rothman. Whatever this movie is supposed to be, it fails on every level. It's not scary, it's not disturbing, it's not entertaining, it's only funny periodically when you can't believe how stupid it is, and it essentially killed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise until it was rebooted a decade later.

The only reason anyone would have any inclination to watch this is because of its leads - Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey - who were young and naive back then, but they did they best they could with the material they had. Renee played a fine damsel in distress and McConaughey was perfect as an insane cannibalistic psychopath. You can tell he was having fun with the part, and the fun he has is contagious sometimes especially knowing how huge he has become since.

The movie itself is downright horrendous. It starts off as a typical slasher: a few teens leaving prom get stranded in the woods, then they encounter strange characters, and from then it devolves into a nonsensical screaming battle between everyone. Literally there are scenes in this movie where the only lines are "AHHHH!" Leatherface has gone full transvestite for this installment. They also end the movie with some sort of conspiracy that these cannibals have been around for thousands of years and there are men in suits that check up on them or something. It makes absolutely no sense and trying to piece it together will ensure a loss of brain cells.

This is the worst of the pre-millennial TCMs by a long shot. Only watch if you're a die-hard TCM completist or you want to watch McConaughey yell like crazy for a while. Either way, you're bound to be disappointed.

This movie is definitely not winning any awards., but it is definitely a guilty pleasure for alot of people who like B quality horror movies and ridiculous cult movies. You know the ones, "So bad that it's good."

At one point, a terrorized Jenny screams "I don't understand!" And Vilmer replies "Welcome to the real world." For me, this sums up everything I like about this movie.

The TCM series has -- at the best of times -- been about random violence...usually for the sake of sensationalism. But underneath it all is the creepy realization that not everybody thinks like you do. Some of them do things which make no sense to you. When you step into their reality, you're at their mercy, and you'll never understand exactly why.

This installment plays the "why?" theme to the hilt, eventually copping out somewhat near the end when they should have just left us wondering. Darla is wonderful as Vilmer's girlfriend, alternately getting hung up about seemingly trivial things -- having a quiet dinner for a change -- and goading Vilmer into continuing their twisted, mutually abusive relationship. Vilmer himself has fantastic moments, though none of the actors quite live up to Perensky & Zellweger's standards of convincing nuttiness and terror, respectively. Though Newmyer is also great in a role which is too small.

Outside of the mayhem, there's some wonderful dialogue, especially the first few lines in the movie: the teacher who simpers around the students and then gripes, "f*** I hate kids." Heather's friend with the absolutely bizarre mannerisms explaining that the gossip-monger is just trying to cause trouble. Heather saying that they might end up slaughtered and hidden away in somebody's basement, with Sean retorting, "that's stupid, the houses around here don't have basements." And finally, my favourite line: "Too bad about her face, Leather, but you can have her shoes!"

Despite all the bad press this movie's received, I hope Kim Henkel enjoys what she created as much as I enjoy watching it. Goofy, funny, real, unreal, terrifying and witty: good job.

This was hard to sit through. Everyone puts on a career worst performance. Its exactly the first movie, with none of the tension, gore, horror and is just EMBARRASSING.

This one is a cheap slasher; bad acting, profound logic errors and lack of spirit. They should add a swamp monster and a few troglodytes to spice up this mess.

I would like to say first of all this movie is by far the worst TM movie of them all, there is no debating that but I wouldn't say it's the worst movie I have ever seen. I would rather watch this instead of house of the dead, or say the ring. I could make a list of worse or less entertaining movies, but i won't go into detail because that could take a while. Though this is a quite stupid movie I would say i've definitely seen a lot worse. Nothing will ever touch the original of this series, which is a true masterpiece in horror. I feel bad for the one's who had to see this one first before they seen the other's. Let us hope the new prequel of the Texas chainsaw massacre goes back to the roots of terror.

One reviewer said that this film is like watching Twin Peaks fused with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I absolutely agree. This film is bizarre, and surreal, and strange. Sometimes it even borders on artistic. For me, this is the best in the series, right after the first one. If you're expecting it to follow in the vein of the second or the third then you will be very let down. I understand why most hated it, but for me it's lots of fun.

Ok look I know it's bad, I do. I'm not saying that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is a great film. All I'm saying is that it's a guilty pleasure of mine... like I had a lot of fun here! To me, this is just one of those films where you know it's bad while you're watching it, but you're just never bored and you're having fun. You got two leads who were very young at the time, who would later become Oscar winning A list actors.... that's pretty shocking to see in a film like this lol. I loved Renee Zellweger here, I actually think she and Matthew are the only good actors here, the rest are pretty laughable. But ya know this film really doesn't take itself very seriously at all, so it's fun to laugh at the atrocious acting, mainly given by the actress that plays Heather. Matthew McConaughey is absolutely bonkers here, like sometimes he's just crazy to be crazy. That's one of the many reasons this film is never boring... it's entertaining as hell to watch Matthew play this crazy over the top character. I had fun with the chainsaw chase scenes and actually did get kinda tense while Leatherface was chasing Jenny. I have absolutely no clue why Leatherface is a transvestite in this film, that's just one of the weird things they put in here, like the mechanical leg and the weird government thing. But overall, I think this film knows what it is and it just goes completely off the rails crazy. It's a guilty pleasure for me, I'm not saying this film is good, but I can't deny that I did have fun watching it.

How on earth did Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey's careers survive this pile of excrement? You couldn't make a worse movie if you tried! Plot is non-existent. The direction is terrible - a goof-fest from end to end.

Surely one of the worst movies ever made.

The latest Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is absolutely no rest from the bizarre first three horror films. Leatherface here is performed just like Gunnar Hansen's take in the 1974 granddaddy of all horror films, " The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." The actors seem to overact sometimes, it's pretty corny...still the humor and craziness of the flick are entertaining, as well as the music and atmosphere. Definitely the best film of the two leading stars, who would go on to become Hollywood heartthrobs. You'll have a lot of fun if you're a horror fan who likes to see some weird B-ish stuff.

I have never written a review about anything in my whole life. But this movie has crossed a line at which it is not possible not to share how I want my brain to explode after seeing this.

There was not a single scene without a quadrillion inconsistencies. From minor mistakes to plot holes the size of Alaska. Sometimes you will have no idea what's going on, sometimes you will cry in pain by the non-sense you are seeing with your, at this point, surely bleeding eyes. If the main goal of the movie was to increase suicide rates, then they did a great job. From any other perspective this movie is a war crime and should be considered a public enemy.

If you, for whatever god forbidden reason, let it be euthanasia or some kind of chainsaw-kink, still decide to watch this movie, then at least take some advice. Get drunk. Get high. Surgically remove your eyes, ears and possible your brain. Do anything in your power to reduce the time looking at the screen to witness any of the approximately 139,680 frames of the movie. Personally, I started blinking very rapidly to decrease the watch time.

And whatever you do, do not share this movie with friends. They will hate you as much as I hate the one that shared this movie with me.

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THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION / (1994) Zero Stars

Starring: Renee Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Jacks, and Tonie Perensky Directed and written by Kim Henkel. Running time: 86 minutes. Rated R (for bizarre violent and sexual content, and for strong language).

By Blake French:

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" is so bad it is virtually mind numbing. It is the worst movie I have ever seen. Even the most horrible of bad movies tower far above this romp that wonders between insipid concepts and horror free events. I have a real hard time excepting the fact that such badness can actually qualify as a mainstream film production. This picture is disturbing, bizarre, and god awful. I wish I could provide you with a more thought out opening paragraph, but what else can I say?

There is absolutely zero character development in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation." Due to this, we really couldn't care less about what happens to the main characters. The film's logic free story consists of several high school students becoming lost in the depth of a wooded area where they stumble upon a sickening family of psychopaths that put new meaning to the word dysfunctional.

There are two deaths in the film, both of side characters. One is run over with a truck. The other has his neck broken. In a movie titled "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation," one would expect gory murders a plenty--though that is far from reality in this case. There is no blood, no guts, and no chainsaw killings. The Leatherface character does absolutely nothing in the film. Excuse me. He does do something. He dresses up like a woman and shrieks his chainsaw above his head while screaming wildly.

Who are the villains? What do they want? What conceivable reasons do they have for living the lifestyle they inhabit? There are no answers provided. I am not necessarily stating that the majority of viewers will even care enough about the plot to even ask any questions. I am just backing up my theory of the terrible qualities this production contains.

It is quite the surprise to witness some big names in the film's cast list, such as Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey. Neither of the two are capable of rescuing the movie, nor are they able to perform with fine dramatic tension. What a complete waste of talent director and writer Kim Henkel constructs with this piece of trash.

After screening "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" I honestly felt sick to my stomach. I love movies so much, but this so-called movie is a disgrace to all film's associated with. It is so hard to understand what the individual's intentions were when they produced this heap of garbage. Did the filmmakers desire to give movies a bad name? Or did they actually believe "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" was worth a penny? After seeing this movie's poster, and seeing the tagline "Still Buzzing After All These Years," I had a question for it. Why is the series still buzzing when it ran out of fuel long before this film was made?

well, i love the original, -humph- who doesn't , i've seen the the 2nd one , i hate the 3rd one, and the rest of them are good! the only guys to play leather face, should be IMO, Gunner Hansen, Bill Johnson, Andrew Bryniarski but above all, i love Matthew's character, i could play his character so good, no joke, i can even play leather face, the funny part in " the next generation" is Renee saying "I'm leaving, and no one is gonna stop me", then leather face, screams, and Renee says YOU SIT THE F*CK DOWN! LOL, AND BTW,Darla is so fine, them boobs are nice, but heather is OK looking, and the other funny scene is when Renee is about to shoot leather face, his look, is like oh s*it, click , then he gets mad, his expression is funny!

But this was the worst movie I've ever seen. It was so bad it couldn't be good/bad--just plain BAD. Awful. WTF??? Kind of funny but not enough to totally redeem it from total awfulness. You will be bored and incredulous.

You know how some movies can be so bad they are actually good? This ain't one of 'em.

Okay, the one redeeming thing is that Matthew M is really good at playing psycho. But if you want to see a really good movie were he plays psycho, see Frailty and skip this one.

This one has no plot, it is not scary, not witty, and makes absolutely no sense.

The acting from the girls is so cartoonishly ditsy, lazy and bad... It's almost like an ironic low-budget movie. But it's riding on this huge name, so you'd expect... something.

This film sucks. Okay, the correspondent who said that the movie was ruined by cutting, well, true, I didn't see the original cut. It's hard to imagine, though, that it could make that much difference. Some elements, I'm sure, were intended as camp. When filmmakers aim for camp and miss by so wide a margin, the result is boring ugliness. The part of the film that wasn't (supposed to be) campy, was just sadism and psychopathy. While these can make a good horror film (such as Wes Craven's "Last House on the Left") here the result was just painful to watch. The only positive in this movie was Renee Zellweger. Her initial mousiness blossoms into fierce beauty.

I can't believe this is rated as a bad film by so many. It is one of my favorites. It's pretty twisted and sick in a realistic way. Indeed it's not like the other TCMs but it's the same plot line , but completely different in a way. Mr. McConaughey has a great role and is acting like never before. Try seeing the movie and finding the good qualities instead of searching for whats bad about it like everyone else does. The psycholigy is brilliant. A must see for all !