Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)

• Year: 1990
• Released: 12 Jan 1990
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099994/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/leatherface_texas_chainsaw_massacre_iii
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/leatherface-texas-chainsaw-massacre-iii
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Horror, Thriller
• Runtime: 85 min
• Writer: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper, David J. Schow
• Director: Jeff Burr
• Cast: Kate Hodge, Ken Foree, R.A. Mihailoff
• Keywords: sequel, death, leatherface,

	5.0/10
	30/100

Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III Storyline

A brother and sister set out from california to florida in there fathers car to deliver it for him. Meanwhile, the police have found bodies buried in the ground covered in toxic waste, from the Original Family from TCM 1 and 2. The brother and sister stop at a gas station and are threatened by a crazy man with a shotgun. They take a road they were told of at the gas station but are hunted by leatherface and his family. There only hope is a Survivalist with alot of firepower.

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Underrated and very interesting

Traveling through the desert together, a brother-and-sister attempting to deliver a classic car to a relative encounters a murderous, cannibalistic family that preys on travelers hunting along the highway and must team up with a stranded survivalist to stave off the family’s advances.

This here turned out to be decent and actually quite enjoyable actually. One of the main aspects that works really well to this one is an impressive atmosphere, with the film being rather creepy for the most part. There’s a lot of fun to be had with this one in the desert despite being set at night but it makes the film just that much better because the majority of the action takes place at night and that is really tough to pull off, yet it’s done nicely here. The initial appearance by the couple changing their car-tire which turns into an attack on the car and then leading into the chase down the highway where they bump into their friend gives this a strong launching pad to where the movie really works in the chasing through the patch of woods by the highway. The dark trees and nearly impenetrable layout makes for a perfect spot to unleash the series of ambushes, stumbling across the traps left out and getting plenty of strong, stellar stalking throughout where the killer comes out of the shadows in rather unexpected locations to catch them in the traps or stalk them with the chainsaw leading for a great time throughout here. With the family dinner scene being rather enjoyable with plenty of gruesome, bloody moments that are far more squirm-inducing than expected and a nasty streak that runs throughout, suddenly machine gun fire bursts into the room, gunning down most of the family leading into the final brawl out in the swamp which has a lot to like. The gore is great as well, especially in the unrated form where the gore is a little nastier and it should please the gorehounds looking for a ton of blood and guts. There are still some flaws here, as there is an ‘R’ rated version of the film that is so heavily cut that it makes no sense why it was rated ‘R.’ Almost no violence at all occurs in the main cut of the film which is virtually bloodless and with a low body count to chop up, it doesn’t have a lot of deaths to dole out. There are way too few people to get involved in the family which keeps the body-count to a point where it’s quite obvious there’s not a lot of opportunities to knock people off which is really distracting. There’s also the fact that the family again changes around members needlessly, offering up another change in the members and characteristics of the group which is never explained and offers up the kind of questions that shouldn’t be made in this kind of situation. Ranging from who’s who in relation to each other and what they’re pasts were like since they’re colorful enough to be memorable, however too much is kept off-screen around them which is rather disappointing. Still, it’s far better than expected.

Rated R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.

Strange, semi-serious reprise of the Tobe Hooper classic

This second sequel to the horror classic is something of a letdown, purely because of the storyline. While the first sequel, dominated by Dennis Hopper’s crazed performance, explored the key figures in a novel way, LEATHERFACE is a film that’s content to simply emulate the first movie’s storyline. Once again we get unwary travellers falling foul of Leatherface and his family, and an extended climax involving a family dinner. It’s all way too familiar, and of course lacks the sheer intensity of Tobe Hooper’s original classic.

The film’s tone is wildly uneven throughout, and even in the would-be horror scenes it’s hard to take it seriously. The movie feels like a spoof; it has a light-hearted tone that sits at odds with the grimness of the plot. Still, on the plus side, it’s very fast paced, and it features a great deal of crowd-pleasing horror elements that are sure to win the hearts of splatter fans, although as with the original, it’s never quite as gory as you think it’s going to be (and I’m talking about the uncut version).

One of those crowd-pleasers is Ken Foree, Mr. DAWN OF THE DEAD himself, playing one of the film’s would-be victims. Foree is a delight, and they sure play up to his potential, portraying him as a real ass-kicker of a man. I couldn’t care less about the two characters who are supposed to be the leads, but Foree hooks you right from the start. The rest of the actors are less than impressive, and in particular the guy who plays Leatherface is just a stock heavy; there’s certainly none of the hulking, imposing brutality that Gunnar Hansen brought to the role.

Of course, one of the draws watching this film today is seeing a pre-stardom Viggo Mortensen playing in a decidedly odd type of role, completely different from what you might expect; I enjoyed his performance, even if much of it is played for laughs. And that’s the trouble with the film as a whole: we’re back to that spoofy tone, that whole non-serious feel that everyone’s laughing at the premise rather than getting to grips with the horrifying implications of it. Take the ear scene, for example, or the string of increasingly ridiculous and unbelievable things that happen at the climax (including the fate of one of the characters, which makes no sense whatsoever; blame a substituted ending for that one, after the original didn’t go down too well with test audiences). In fact, come the end, I enjoyed this more as a bizarre comedy than as a genuine horror outing.

Can you take back funny?

The third TCM tries to do so. After we got a quite bloody sequel to the original horror film, we get back to the nasty and mean roots. The question is if the viewer is up for that. And that viewer would be you. I do assume you’ve the previous entries if not more recent efforts to keep the franchise alive (if you’ll excuse the pun), which means you are familiar with Leatherface.

If you have seen a couple of classic horror movies, Ken Foree will also seem very familiar. I guess the dead made place in hell and don’t walk around anymore. Good for him, though being in this movie might not be too good for him (health wise), something you have to see for yourself, how it turns out. The movie has quite good effects, there are different versions or at least additional minutes to some releases and depending on how much you are willing to stomach, you’ll either watch the unrated or R-rated cut. Horror – down and dirty, just as you like it? That’s for you to decide