RunningĬast: Renee Zellweger (Jenny), Matthew McConaughey (Vilmer), Robert Jacks (Leatherface) and Roger Roe, Angee Hughes and Rebecca Rosenberg (Stuffed Family). Kuhn and Henkel released by Cinepix Film Properties. Written and directed by Kim Henkel director of photography, Levie Isaacks edited by Sandra Adair music by Wayne Bell production designer, Deborah Pastror produced by Robert J. The dialogue is as mindlessly foulmouthed as it is inarticulate. ![]() It includes middling horror-movie violence, with a restraint that may owe more to a lunch-money budget than Rating: "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: The Next Generation Much of it comes from Leatherface, played by Robert Jacks. Into her mouth, which is the kind of semi-nasty violence that is seen here. Still, there was no good way for him to grab Ms. McConaughey, already armed and dangerous with those flashing eyes and dimples, manages to play a murderous nut with more swagger than the role deserves. Zellweger, sweet and sprightly and a natural-born ditz, may be the only actress who could point a gun bravely at a killer, then simply shriek and drop it and scamper away. But should anyone have the patience to look closely, the two leading players do show signs of what would soon make them famous. To be tongue-in-cheek, as with a backwoods gunman who quotes Emerson and Machiavelli, fall seriously flat. ![]() Locked him out, though!") Its own efforts ("Heather, you O.K.? There's some crazy guy outside with a shotgun. Without much wit of its own, Kim Henkel's tyro film is just what the polished "Scream" makes fun of. One set of players is billed in the credits as "Stuffed Family." The supporting cast does nothing toīring out anyone's glamour quotient. After a detour to their familys old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed. Partain), set out with their friends to investigate. When Sally (Marilyn Burns) hears that her grandfathers grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin (Paul A. ![]() McConaughey, cast as a homicidal head case, is called upon to grunt, scream and smack himself in one relatively memorable scene. 1974 83 min R Horror, Sci-Fi/Horror, Suspense, Drama Feature Film. Zellweger plays much of her role in a tattered prom dress and heavy-rimmed glasses,Īnd she seems to have had to do her own risky stunt work on a rooftop. Since its debut nearly 50 years ago, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has spawned eight films about unsuspecting young people who stumble onto a desolate Texas town and become victims of the. Props include litter, old pizza slices and a black plastic trash bag, it's clear that these two were going places.Īlthough this eager but lame film is not enough of an agent's nightmare to feature embarrassing nudity, it does lay the stars bare in other ways. In 1995 that this schlocky horror farce, then known as "Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre," first appeared with the unknown actors Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger in starring roles. Or a fine illustration of what "before" means, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" is being opportunistically re-released. 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre': 'Heather, You OK? Uh, Oh'Īug'Texas Chainsaw Massacre': 'Heather, You OK? Uh, Oh' By JANET MASLIN
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