Episode 72: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation

This week on the podcast we watched 1994’s ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, starring Academy Award winners Matthew McConaughy and Renee Zellweger. After all these years, the legend is still buzzing about in the backwoods of Texas. While the film begins with the typical teens lost in the woods horror movie trope, the rest of this movie is beyond any other in the series. It goes onto suggest the Sawyer (or as IMDB says Slaughter) Family has actually been doing the dirty work of some sort of Illuminati organization this whole time. Not only does it give us that, but also now Leatherface is some sort of transexual and has a brother named Vilmer (McConaughy) with a robotic leg. While this movie is over the top and awful, Matthew McConaughy actually delivers one hell of a performance. The last 10-15 minutes of this movie are so confusing and messy, it leaves you with about a billion questions left unanswered.