TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION 20 YEARS LATER!!!!???

 

WOW THIS MOVIE IS 20 YEARS OLD TODAY!!!!

 

Now all I can say about this film was the fact that I found in 1995 and I was like I didn't know they made another sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Rented it, took it home and disappointment set in.

This is not what I was expecting this was a movie that looked like they threw it together to keep the movie rights. Today I still look at this film and go what the hell was Columbia Pictures thinking when they made this abomination. SO to explain the film I lifted most of the info on it from Wikipedia and IMDb. Let's face it Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger have gone onto much greener pastures and yes Oscars. But this little blip on their radar is still there.  So let's hear your REAL feelings towards Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation?????

 

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (originally released as The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is a 1994 independent American slasher film written and directed by Kim Henkel, and starring Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey, both before they became mainstream stars. The film is a loose remake of and quasi-sequel to the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which Henkel had co-written with Tobe Hooper. It has only loose connections to the previous two sequel films, which are mentioned in the film's opening prologue as "two minor, yet apparently related incidents" which happened after the events of the original film.

The plot centers on a group of teenagers who find themselves in a secluded area of forest on their prom night after getting into a car accident, only to cross paths with a family of murderers, among them the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface. The movie was filmed in Pflugerville, Texas in 1994 on a budget of $600,000, and was released at several film festivals under the title The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was then shelved for three years, and was re-cut and released under the title Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation in late summer 1997, after its two lead actors had both become major Hollywood stars.

Columbia Pictures originally released the film as The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre in a small number of cinemas in 1994, as well as showing it at the South by South-west Film and Media Conference in 1995. This version was later pulled from theatres, and the film was re-released in 1997 under the title Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. The original, unedited cut of the film features a few differences, including:

• a subplot that involves Jenny's stepfather abusing her in the opening scene
• more dialogue between Heather and Barry in the car
• a longer conversation between Jenny and Darla in the bath-room

The original cut also featured different musical effects, a handful of different transitional shots, as well as a few scenes tinted different colors.

The most widely available cut of the film, titled Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, does not contain this footage. The Canadian DVD release of the film through Lions Gate Entertainment remains the only known home-video release as of 2009^[update] that includes all of the cut footage from the original version of the movie. The version titled The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre runs for 95 minutes, while the version titled Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation runs for only 86 minutes; a nine-minute difference.

The versions of the film available differ from country to country, but Herald Videogram released the original Return cut on Laserdisc in Japan.

Intended by director Kim Henkel to be the "real" sequel to the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). The characters of Vilmer and W.E. were intended to be the Hitchhiker and Cook characters from the original film. Jim Siedow was approached to reprise his Cook character, but was unable to.

Bill Johnson, who played Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) was offered the role of Leatherface.

by Bucky