Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3

Director: Jeff Burr
Screenplay: David J. Schow
Minutes: 81
Year: 1990
Score: 6.27
Release: Warner Archive

I don’t know why I watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, they really creep me out. The first one gave me nightmares for weeks. The second one is just bizarro. So why would I watch this one. Ken Foree.

From WBShop.com:

Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road. Here they are stalked by the menacing Leatherface and his demented family…a bizarre cannibalistic clan with blood on their hands and a feast on their minds. The students’ only chance for escape is a survivalist with enough firepower to blast Leatherface and the rest of the grisly predators to hell. A depraved shocker of intense terror from the gruesome beginning to the bloody finish.

Leatherface was not as weird or creepy, it sort of happens as you expect it would. Teens inexplicably drive through Texas, get fooled into a wrong turn, by Aragorn of all people, and fall into the wiles of the family. By now it is a predictable slasher, which should not be a surprise because New “Nightmare on Elm Street” Line Cinema aquired the rights with designs on pumping out sequels.

There is little of value outside of seeing Viggo Mortensen in a, fairly, early role as one of the family, and Dawn of the Dead’s Ken Foree as a naturalist prepper making it a rare occasion in which it is completely understandable that a character suddenly has a machine gun and grenades. I think it is more watchable than TCM 2, but still not that great.

Special Features

• Filmmaker Commentary
• The Saw is Family
• We Know What To Do With Them Parts (Deleted Scenes)
• Alternate Ending
• Theatrical Trailer (HD)
• TV Spot Trailers

Director: 7 – Cinematography: 7 – Edit: 5 – Parity: 6 – Main performance: 9 – Else performance: 2 – Score: 6 – Sound: 5 – Story: 6 – Script: 8 – Effects: 8 – Design: 6 – Costumes: 5 – Keeps interest: 9 – Lasting: 5