Directed by David Blue Garcia Legendary Pictures/Bad Hombre/Exurbia Films Goddamn, will somebody tell me why they keep making these movies. Battling itself for its first 30 minutes as to whether it preferred to be more inane or more annoying, this mess produced by the once-promising Fedé Alvarez is said to have taken its modernist cues … Continue reading Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
directed by kim henkel ultra muchos, inc./river city films, inc. All right, so retconning this flick to be the sort-of “sequel” to the 1974 original makes sense. It’s at least half great: the first 45 minutes of this black horror comedy work well as a pastiche of the first go-round, with the added amusement of … Continue reading Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1997) aka The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994)
directed by jeff burr nicolas entertainment/new line cinema In which we find the patient suffering from sequelitis, the disease by which little vestige of the original creation still survives, save for symbols and signifiers … such as the titular bogeyman. Strangely (and unfortunately), this installment’s eponym – known this time around as “Junior” (eyeroll) – … Continue reading Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
directed by tobe hooper cannon films/golan-globus productions Hey, a new competitor for worst movie on this site! For some reason turning one of the best and most impactful horror movies ever made into an extended bout of broadly drawn “humor,” aggravating characterizations, little plot and no point, TCM2 is a chore to endure. Insulting in … Continue reading The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
directed by john luessenhop millennium films/main line pictures I’ll say this much: before you figure out where this picture is heading – which is about when you might want to stop watching – it’s a fairly worthy successor to the debut, even if its opening completely rips off that of The Devil’s Rejects. Not unlike … Continue reading Texas Chainsaw 3D aka Texas Chainsaw (2013)
SPACE RATS From Outer Space 