Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
New Line Cinema | Release Date: October 7, 1994 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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VarietyJoe Leydon
Manages the difficult feat of being genuinely scary and sharply self-satirical all at once. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie 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
50
The New York TimesJanet 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
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Henkel's directing debut isn't incompetent: It's just derivative, pointless and tediously repetitive. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
A slightly above-average slasher film that's only partially redeemed by small but endearingly loopy shreds of black humor. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The movie recapitulates the absurdist tabloid-redneck comedy of the great, original Chainsaw without a hint of its primal terror. Read full review
40
Film ThreatStaff (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
40
Los Angeles TimesJohn 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]
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