After 4 long years, the franchise comes back, but without Tobe Hooper. The director is most notable for a lot of terrible sequels. I can say that this was his high point. Anyway, we get a film starring Ken Foree who was in a lot of the Rob Zombie films as well as Dawn of the Dead. We are also treated to a young Viggo Mortensen and Duane Whitaker, so the cast is solid, to an extent. Michelle and Ryan were kinda poorly done if you ask me, but nobody really is. I am going to provide you with a spoiler filled synopsis and follow that up with my final thoughts and rating.
SPOILERS
We have Michelle and Ryan who are a young couple and they end up at the Last Chance gas station and meet up with a hitchhiker named Tex (Viggo) and the gas station attendant, Alfredo. Tex gives them some directions, and wants a ride, but they decline and then Alfredo gets out a gun and they speed away and see Alfredo fire his gun. They need to change a tire and meet Leatherface but escape. Then they have a car crash with survivalist, Benny. They tell him their story and Benny looks for help, and along comes Tinker. Benny realizes that Tinker is with Leatherface and soon is dealing with him, but is saved by the chick, Sara, whose entire family was killed. Benny goes to check on Michelle and Ryan, leaving Sara alone, so she gets killed by Leatherface. Wait a damn second. That was it? That was her whole a role? A role of convenience for plot purposes. Get outta here with that shit.
So Ryan gets caught in a bear trap, and Michelle gets to the house and deals with the Little Girl who is the best part of the whole film if we’re being honest. Anyway, the girl is part of the family and Michelle gets tied to a chair for dinner. Yup, decomposed grandpa is there. There is a momma, Anne. We know that everybody is part of the family, and then Ryan gets the sledgehammer to the dome, via the Little Girl. Benny tried to get info from ALfredo, but that goes bad so ALfredo ends up in the bog. Leatherface has a new pimped out chainsaw. Benny finds the house and opens fire and kill Anne and grandpa while Tinker and Tex are injured. Michelle bails. Benny and Tex have a great fight until Tex is burned alive. Then Benny and Leatherface have at it and Michelle causes distractions, but it appears that Benny gets got. By Dawn, Michelle is making it out of the woods while being chased. A pickup truck comes by, and it’s Benny, who is then attacked by Alfredo, so Michelle shoots Alfredo. The duo ride off as Leatherface does his dance in the road with his chainsaw that we saw in the original.
End Film
Final Thoughts – There are some quality actors in here, aside from the 3 mentioned, I thought that Anne and the Little Girl were really well done, but smaller parts unfortunately. Michelle wasn’t a good final girl if we’re being honest. Ryan was just awful. Benny should have had a bigger role earlier. There were parts where I got confused, or maybe I was just tired. Too much shit, but it felt like filler. This was better than part 2, but not by much. I have zero interest in seeing it again.
Rating: 3.7 That’s mainly for the characters and actors that I liked. The plot really wasn’t good. Leatherface kinda gets shittier with every sequel unfortunately.
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