# The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (also known as Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation) is a 1994 American horror film about a group of teenagers who get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night, and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface and his insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths. It is the fourth part of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series.
    Directed and written by Kim Henkel.

## Narrator

* [First lines] August 18, 1973. News of a bizarre, chainsaw-wielding family - reports which were to ignite the world's imagination - began to filter out of central Texas. Regrettably, not one of the family members was ever apprehended, and for more than ten years nothing further was heard. Then, over the next several years, at least two minor, yet apparently related incidents were reported. Then again nothing. For five long years, silence...

## Jenny

* Now... I'm gonna leave... and nobody is gonna stop me... [Leatherface stands up from the dinner table and starts screaming] You sit the fuck down and shut up! [Leatherface does as he's told]
* If you're gonna kill me then do it! I'm not gonna put up with any more of your crap. It's bullshit!

## Vilmer Sawyer

* Why are my batteries not charged?
* My brother here is tired of what's-her-name's face and he wants a new one! It just happens to be he wants this face right here!

## W. E. Sawyer

* You get to running with the wrong crowd, wind up in the reformatory. No respect. No discipline. That's the problem. Family values have gone straight to hell.
* "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." That's Ulysses S. Grant. But you wouldn't know that, would you? Cuz' you're a bona fide moron.
* [whipping Jenny with a cattle prod] It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

## Dialogue

    Heather: Barry, I saw you. You were kissing her.
    Barry: Once! I kissed her once! God, it's like I can't talk to my friends anymore. I can't believe how possessive you are.
    Heather: Oh, right, I guess that's why you were feeling her up?
    Barry: Look, guys need sex. It's bad for you if you get all worked up and then not get it; you can get “prostrate” cancer. Is that what you want?
    Heather: Barry, wait, stop... what if there are murderers and they want us to follow them so they could hide behind trees and stab us? There could be dead people buried all around us and you'd never know, and they'd lock us up in their cellars and no one will ever hear us.
    Barry: That's dumb, there aren't any cellars in the houses around here.
    Heather: Alright, don't call me "dumb," Barry. I may not be the smartest person in the world, but I'm not stupid.
    Bud's Pizza Attendant: Uh, Miss, I think there's something in your trunk...
    Darla: Oh that's just somebody I got tied up back there.
    [Vilmer examines the car wreck victim.]
    Sean: Is he gonna be okay?
    Vilmer: The boy's dead.
    Sean: No, he's not. He just passed out.
    Vilmer: I said he's dead.
    Sean: But he was just talking, like, talking in his sleep.
    Vilmer: Is that right? Well... [snaps the victim's neck] He's dead now.
    Sean: [scared] What are you gonna do?
    Vilmer: Well, first, I'm gonna kill you. It ain't no fuckin biggie.
    [Sean runs]
    Vilmer: Of course, it's different for every individual.
    Vilmer: Are we having a party or what? Here we go!
    [pours lighter fluid on Heather's back]
    Jenny: No, you can't do that! She has nothing to do with this!
    Vilmer: That doesn't matter. [lights match] Fire in the hole! [lights Heather on fire, Jenny screams] BURN! BURN! BURN! BUUUUURN! BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURN!
    Darla: [puts Heather out with a fire extinguisher] Now why'd you have to do that? You know I can never get that smell outta my clothes.
    Vilmer: What are you gonna do? Shoot me?
    Jenny: Yeah... if you try something.
    Vilmer: [Slicing his chest with a razor] What if I do this?
    Rothman: [in the backseat of his limousine] This... all of this... It's been an abomination. You really must accept my sincere apologies. It was supposed to be a spiritual experience. I can't tell you how... disappointed I am... I suppose it's something we all live with... raison d'être. It's never been easy for me. One of my many failings.
    Jenny: Fuck you.
    Rothman: Would you like to go to the local hospital... or to a police station?

## Taglines

* The American legend returns, to bring you back to the cutting edge of terror.
* The Buzz Is Back!
* Still buzzing after all these years.
* The legend is reborn.
* If looks could kill he wouldn't need a chainsaw.
* He's back. You're dead.

## Cast

* Renée Zellweger — Jenny
* Lisa Marie Newmyer — Heather
* Tonie Perensky — Darla
* Tyler Shea Cone — Barry
* John Harrison — Sean
* Joe Stevens — W. E. Sawyer
* James Gale — Rothman
* Matthew McConaughey — Vilmer Sawyer
* Robert Jacks — Leatherface

## External links

* Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation at Rotten Tomatoes