{"id":41524,"date":"2023-10-25T00:49:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T04:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=41524"},"modified":"2023-10-25T00:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T04:49:30","slug":"ranking-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-movies-from-best-to-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/25\/ranking-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-movies-from-best-to-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking \u201cThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d Movies from Best to Worst"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWho Will Survive and What Will be Left of Them?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been an interesting year for \u201cTexas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d fans as the movie series has finally been adapted in to what is, by all accounts, a popular survival video game. It\u2019s also incidentally the twenty year anniversary of the shockingly popular Marcus Nispel remake, which continues to win new fans. With that said, I gave my personal ranking to all of the \u201cTexas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d films in the series. As always feel free to offer your own rankings or rebuttals the comments.<\/p>\n

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
\n<\/strong>Tobe Hooper\u2019s horror classic is in a league of its own. No other film has been able to capture its stark, gritty, relentless chaos, and violence. Everything about it is an endless hellscape null of any hope, joy, or optimism. From its vicious villains, its iconic madman, his roaring chainsaw, the endless torture endured by the slew of characters, to the closing scene of the final girl Sally having a veritable mental breakdown drenched in blood before our very eyes. Yeah she gets away in the end, but after all the hell she\u2019s been through, is that really saying anything? Hooper\u2019s slasher is a nasty but mesmerizing masterpiece.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
\n<\/strong>The second sequel to Hooper\u2019s original is a fun and more straight faced attempt by director Jeff Burr, Armed with a fun performance by Ken Foree, \u201cTexas Chainsaw Massacre III\u201d is an absolutely underrated horror sequel. I know a lot of the fan base tends to favor part two over this one, but I have to say that watching this originally, it won my love and interest far more than the 1986 follow up ever really did.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
\n<\/strong>The beloved direct follow up from director L.M. Kit Carson is a bang up horror comedy soaking in violence and gore, and maintaining much of the chaos and havoc from the original, just set to a different beat. Along with introducing new characters like Bill Moseley\u2019s Choptop to the mix, there\u2019s also a great turn by Dennis Hopper who absolutely devours the scenery at every turn. This is fun, it\u2019s weird, and it\u2019s a follow up you\u2019d never really expect coming from this universe.<\/p>\n

Texas<\/strong> Chainsaw 3D (2013)
\n<\/strong>I\u2019m one of the very few people that loves John Luessenhop\u2019s \u201cTexas Chainsaw 3D.\u201d Despite some gaping plot holes, this attempt at a reboot is loads of fun. It is one of the many movies from this series claiming to be the actual follow up to Tobe Hooper\u2019s original film, while also skewing the whole depiction of the Sawyer family. This movie opts to depict the Sawyers more as misunderstood monsters, while Leatherface is transformed in to a force of nature corrupted by mankind. I get why people hate it, but I think it\u2019s a blast.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
\n<\/strong>Helping to kick off the remake trend of the early aughts, Marcus Nispel\u2019s \u201cThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d at the very least tries to echo the beats of the original, while also lending its own unique style and flavor for the modern audience. Gone are all the subtexts about the Vietnam War, and in comes a pretty rote slasher movie, all things considered. To compensate for the lackluster script folks like R. Lee Ermy and Jessica Biel pick up the slack well. It just sadly shoots itself in the foot in the climax by\u2014chopping off Leatherface\u2019s leg.<\/p>\n

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
\n<\/strong>Jonathan Liebesman\u2019s follow up to Marcus Nispel\u2019s remake is fine, I guess. It\u2019s starker, and more straight faced than Nispel\u2019s remake, but it botches telling its version of the origin of Leatherface. To make things worse, the movie is much more a display of R. Lee Ermy\u2019s ability to steal scenes, rather than focus on Leatherface and his evolution. The script seems to know that there\u2019s not much you can pull from Leatherface, thus the movie focuses on all of the Sawyer family, with Leatherface taking a back seat. Such a shame.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995)
\n<\/strong>The\u2014reboot\u2014uh, remake\u2014uh, sequel\u2014re-imagining (\u2026?) of Tobe Hooper\u2019s original is\u2026 one of the most bizarre, ridiculous sequels I\u2019ve ever seen. Kim Henkel takes the whole simple premise of teens running afoul this horribly psychopathic family, and turns it in to a weird concoction of sub-plots about illuminati, secret organizations, and baffling plot twists. You could check this out for the very early appearances by Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger, but they\u2019re just awful here.<\/p>\n

Leatherface (2017)
\n<\/strong>Yet another \u201calternate\u201d take on the Sawyer family intended to also explain away Leatherface, which seemed to be the opposite of what Tobe Hooper originally intended. Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo turn the Sawyers in to a misunderstood family on the run, while Leatherface is simply a young handsome man whose scars turn him magically in to the unintelligible giant maniac wielding a mallet and chainsaw. \u201cLeatherface\u201d is dull, silly, and sticks out from the rest of the series like a sore thumb.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Texas<\/strong> Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
\n<\/strong>The straight to Netflix original by David Blue Garcia is intended to be \u201cthe true sequel\u201d to Tobe Hooper\u2019s original film. How many times have we heard that already? The whole movie is a big legacy sequel meant to ride off the coattails of 2018\u2019s \u201cHalloween,\u201d bringing back Sally Hardesty to take down Leatherface. Leatherface is miraculously still alive and begins wreaking havoc thanks to a bunch of Gen Z\u2019ers that raid his run down town. \u201cTexas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d is just downright awful and unwatchable. It\u2019s ridiculous, it thinks its more clever than it is, and spends so much time trying to \u201cstick it\u201d to Gen Z that it loses sight of being an actual horror film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWho Will Survive and What Will be Left of Them?\u201d It\u2019s been an interesting year for \u201cTexas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d fans as the movie series has finally been adapted in to what is, by all accounts, a popular survival video game. It\u2019s also incidentally the twenty year anniversary of the shockingly popular Marcus Nispel remake, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[477,922,950,1043,1103],"class_list":["post-41524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-list-junkies","tag-horror","tag-sequel","tag-slasher","tag-texas-chainsaw-massacre","tag-tobe-hooper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41530,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41524\/revisions\/41530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}