In part three of our ongoing examination of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, Rewind of the Living Dead will take a look at two sequels from the 1990s that were meant to reinvigorate the series with “Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III’ and the fourth film later retitled “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation”…
The explosion of the slasher genre in the 1980’s had just about every studio in Hollywood thirsty for the next great horror franchise. New Line Cinema, which was the studio responsible for the rise of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, decided to reinvent the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise with a third film in the series with plans to focus more around Leatherface than his cannabilistic family.
The result was the 1990 film “Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III,” which starred future Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen. Then in 1995, Kim Henkel, one of the original writers in the original “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” returned to the franchise to pen the script for “The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” which was the fourth film in the series.
Starring Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellwegger long before they were Oscar darlings, the film introduced a bizarre twist that the human flesh feasting Sawyer clan were actually part of a secret cabal responsible for many of the ills that befell the world.
In part three of our ongoing examination of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, Rewind of the Living Dead will take a look at two sequels from the 1990s that were meant to reinvigorate the series with “Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III’ and the fourth film later retitled “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.”
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