Awesome Movie

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Blistering performances.

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!

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 extremely erratic remake/sequel tries to follow the template of the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", nevertheless twisting it into a bizarre modern blend of dark comedy and tasteless antics. Its the usual story of high school prom night turned bad as the typical airhead girlfriend, moron boyfriend and likable nerdy girl (Renee Zellweger) fall victim to a rural Texas dysfunctional family led by madman (Mathew McConaughey). If you've seen the previous "Chainsaw" films, then you should know what to expect, but this comes off so eccentric, that its impossible to take seriously. Mathew McConaughey tries way too hard to be insane as the maniacal Vilmer, and Renee Zellweger tries way to hard to be scared as the female lead. The rest of the characters are either mindless fodder or laughable afterthoughts such as Tyler Cone as Barry who's every line in the film is a literary quote, and Leatherface in drag and constantly screaming in dress and makeup is just way too wacky. McConaughey's character's leg is controlled by a remote actuator, and he slaps and cuts himself repeatedly while abusing everyone around him, especially Zellweger. Somehow a powerful organization is behind the control and funding of the torture tactics implemented by Vilmer and his clan, a strange plot device that completely throws the film into left field. Its a masochistic freak show, and little gore, hardly any chainsaw action, and plenty of silly inconsistencies (at one point a chainsaw cuts bricks off a chimney with no effort???) make this effort a real blunder. Its entertaining for its ineptness and craziness if anything.

On Prom Night, some friends crash their car into a tree in the woods. When trying to find help, they stumble upon a farmhouse where inside Leatherface and his cannibal family await. This film starred: Renee Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey & Robert Jacks.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4:The Next Generation is again a bad TCM movie. However I do give praise to Matthew McConaughey because he saved this movie from a 1/10 to a 4/10 because everybody else in this film was awful. Well I suppose Renee Zellwegar was OK but she didn't do enough to save it from a 1/10 like Matthew McConaughey did. Not recommended because like the 3 before it, it's bad. In my opinion going best to worst out of the first 4 films...1. TCM 3 - 5/10 2. TCM 4 - 4/10 3. TCM 2 - 2/10 4. TCM 1 - 1/10*/***** Very poor.