Renée Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Jacks

A group of teenagers get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night, and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface and his insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths.

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R, 1 hr. 37 min.

Directed by: Kim Henkel

Release Date: October 7, 1994

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DVD Release Date: July 20, 1999

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  • September 18, 2009
    This film is a bit nasty. No horror, no suspense, it?s not even frightening, it?s just violent and unnecessary. Turning Leatherface into a transvestite was a stroke of genius though!
  • June 14, 2009
    The biggest pile of shit from the 1990's. Dental work is preferable to what amounts to a cheap remake of the original film that doesn't go anywhere new, makes no sense, and features acting on par with a three year old reading the script to Porky's Revenge.
  • May 6, 2008
    You couldn't make a worse movie if you tried. This movie does everything wrong, leaves out HUGE parts of the plot line, and has some of the worst acting i've ever seen. This combination is basically the perfect storm for making one of the most poorly made and crappiest movies of ...( read more)all time. The thing is, thats what makes it freaking hilarious. The craptasical nature of this movie combined with the COMPLETE seriousness with which it is delivered is perfect. Honestly, when i say you couldn't make a worse movie, i mean you couldn't make a funnier one. This movie is one of the best comedies I've ever seen, hands down. Can we say matthew mcconaughey and a TV remote operated bionic leg? Yeah, best movie of 94 and truly kickstarted renee Zellweger's career
  • March 4, 2008
    It's entertaining to see Renee Zellweger playing a "survivor girl", but the "family" is quite weak in this one, as is the gore. For queasy types and kids, it's plenty grotesque, but there are no memorable kills or scares here for a horror fan. I saw the "dead family around the ta...( read more)ble" scene as a kid and was not only horrified, but offended, that this shocking trash was circulating; now, the corpses play as substandard production value and the concept of the overall scene is not as classic as prior "TCM family dinner scenes". Another dinner scene comment: Grandpa appears dead as usual but radically different from other incarnations of the character. He looks particularly corpsey in this flick, there is no dialogue on the family's part hinting that he is alive, but at the climax of the scene he gets up to walk, which is not an effective scare and very out of character (we just wanna see Grandpa struggle to lift a hammer, not see him bouncing about the room). McConaughey plays a good self-mutilating psychotic and I like the direction Leatherface has taken - extremely introverted and seemingly obsessed with the death of his mother whilst still struggling with yearnings for sexual contact with women, and expressing both this grief and longing as serial murder. I do hate the chainsaw swinging at the end which is an uninspiring exact re-enactment of the end of Hooper's original (you can only do that shot once in film history and make it meaningful, plus it has to have been a truly horrific film to warrant that bold ending). I also don't like concept that we are introduced to at the end *SPOLIER** that the world is run by an elite group and they fund and cover the Texas family's mayhem as part of a larger scheme to remind people of "true horror and fear". The "elite man" we meet has some cool fleshcraft and piercings on his body, but this menacing visual goes nowhere and his character barely registers as one dimensional besides not really adding to the plot.**SPOILER DONE.

    Overall, I can see why the series had to "reboot" after this film.
  • October 25, 2007
    nuts
  • January 10, 2010
    Complete trash, it also manages to ruin the franchise.
  • December 31, 2009
    Sorry......but this is a truly APPALLING film.
    I don't think I have ever been able to watch it all the way through. It is quite simply TOO dreadful.
    The humour is witless & virtually non-existent (not even in the 'so-bad-it's-good-category), the direction & acting utterly indiffe...( read more)rent, & the script an embarrassment.
    Do not bother with the one!!!
    You have been warned.
  • December 19, 2009
    FUNNY MORE THAN SCARY! GO MATTHEW MCCONAGHUY & RENEE ZELLWEGER!!!!
  • November 30, 2009
    It's pretty entertaining, but nothing to go crazy over.
  • November 14, 2009
    just saw this (As of nov.14 2009) for the first time and it surprised the hell out of me cuz it was very effective.............i enjoyed this,in a creepy kind of way,very creepy flick:):)

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  • Claudia483
    June 19, 2008
    no ur not alone i cheered lmao!
  • NightMary
    February 3, 2007
    AM I the only one who feels like cheering when Renee Zellweger tells Leatherface to sit the F*** down?

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