No real spoilers ahead. This is my first review here, on IMDb. This movie can ruin the whole franchise for a lot of people. The 2nd and the 3rd parts were not very good, but watchable. But this? An abomination! Most of the dialogues are just plain bad, characters are bad and just doesn't fit the franchise acting is pretty bad maybe except for McCounaghey, but even he overacted. Leatherface becoming a transsexual or whatever it was? Since when? And that screaming... horrible. And now he's destroying brick chimneys with his chainsaw. Even the Leatherface's hairstyle is horrendous. One of the genre's listed on IMDb for this movie is "comedy". I didn't see any. If there was comedy, it was awful. Story is also a bold "what the f*ck". More importantly - there was no gore! A Texas chain saw massacre movie and no gore. Something doesn't quite go together, does it? What was up with the "don't hit me" scene? It was like a 90yr old woman hitting a mentally retarded kid. Thank god that Kim Henkel understood that he is not a good director and didn't continue to work as a director. Just do yourself a favor and skip this part of the franchise.

This movie is bad. Not good bad, just bad. I think the people saying they like this movie are simply saying so because they want to appear special or unique.Renee Zellweger's acting comes across as both decent and bad. She seems to be doing well and then suddenly it's like she had a change of heart, or doesn't want to be there anymore, and will just deadpan a few lines before deciding to pick the pace back up a bit.McConnehey isn't bad as the resident nutcase leader, but the character itself is just ridiculous. It's full of nonsense parts (more so than your usual horror movie "cluelessness" from the characters) of which the ending is the biggest condensation of said nonsense. The whole "conspiracy theory" explanation is poorly implemented and is just the icing on the cake of absurdity.Don't get me wrong here. I like a movie that is absurd for the sake of being absurd, or movies that are accidentally good, funny, etc. This is none of those. I am avoiding spoilers by not being specific and just want to give an overall description of the film. It is not clever, it is not witty, it is not good (not even by accident). Everything falls flat in this. Like I said, the number of people giving the "10 out of 10" ratings are either a select few with multiple accounts, people desperate to find a meaning or something that simply is not there, people trying to concoct these "deep meanings" in order to seem "complex" and/or make themselves feel better, or any combination thereof.

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 TCM;Next Generation is an accidental cult classic.I wasn't scared watching this movie,but finally figured out i'm not supposed to be horrified.It is subtly funny,and it is obvious Renee and Mathew and the others were trying not to burst out laughing half the time.It was a load of fun to watch.The actors were having too much fun to try to give Oscar performances and for that their performances are brilliant.This is Renee's best role.Not that she isn't a great actress in general...i just love her so much in this role.She is a young actress who seems like she is just having fun.Mathew is amazing..how on earth this movie gets such low scores is beyond me.Watch it...you'll love it.