Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation

New Line Cinema | Release Date: October 7, 1994

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50	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews

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Joe Bob Briggs

A flick so terrifying and brilliant that it makes the two other Chainsaw sequels seem like After-School Specials. [20 May 1995, p.E6]

Kevin M. Williams

Nothing at all is surprising about Next Generation except how enjoyable it is. It won't become a classic, but is quite a hoot, like the cockamamie Motel Hell, as funny as it is frightening. [29 Aug 1997, p.32]

Liam Lacey

The other thing that sets this movie apart from the current crop of tongue-in-cheek screamers (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream) is that it's actually perversely intriguing, rather than just clever. [03 Nov 1997, p.C2]

Joe Leydon

Manages the difficult feat of being genuinely scary and sharply self-satirical all at once. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Bits and pieces of the story will, on occasion, leave you scratching your head but it, nevertheless, moves rapidly enough to keep you scurrying to keep pace with the new business at hand. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Its own efforts to be tongue-in-cheek, as with a backwoods gunman who quotes Emerson and Machiavelli, fall seriously flat. But should anyone have the patience to look closely, the two leading players do show signs of what would soon make them famous. Read full review

TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh

Henkel's directing debut isn't incompetent: It's just derivative, pointless and tediously repetitive. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

A slightly above-average slasher film that's only partially redeemed by small but endearingly loopy shreds of black humor. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

The movie recapitulates the absurdist tabloid-redneck comedy of the great, original Chainsaw without a hint of its primal terror. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The bottom line is that the only Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie that you need is to see is the first. Read full review

John Anderson

What we want from Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is a giddy mix of gruesome horror and campy humor. What we get is less massacre than mess. [29 Aug 1997, p.F16]