The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III: Leatherface (1990)
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Leatherface is back and this time he won’t take "no" for an answer. A couple from California are out for a cross-country cruise from Los Angeles to Florida. After a stop at a gas station, they meet Tex, a drifter needing a ride. But the gas station attendant is up for some voyeurism. Tex tries to same them from the attendant who brandishes a shotgun when his advances are repelled, and urges them to take a different route out of Texas. Of course this is all a sham since Tex is in on the conspiracy to lure fresh meat to his home. While escaping from "The Family" that is attacking along the long dusty road, is Benny, a survivalist who ends up crashing into the situation. Now the 3 of them must survive the feedings of the family, along with some help from a victim.
Overall: Considering that Leatherface died in part 2 (blown up by the grenade), I can’t understand why there is a part 3. But letting this go, the opening narration ignores part 2 and has "Leatherface" executed in 1981 for the killings in part 1. But then it says "well maybe there are a few extraneous members of the Family still out there." So we get a new family that old Leatherface is now with. Of course, in between scenes of the California Mountains, we have the back roads of Texas, with swamps. That, and Leatherface now has a knee brace on. Aren’t those given out only by prescription? If we take the film and ignore parts 1 & 2 and assume this is a completely different family with no connections, outside of the chainsaws and cannibalism, the film sucks. There’s no real plot, there’s only 3 possible victims (2 of which live) and there are a hell of a lot of family members. Mom needs a voice box due to her smoking, old grandpa is actually dead and stuffed, and we have a little girl, among others. And where the hell did those swamps come from? If we take this as a sequel with Leatherface as the same from parts 1 & 2, then explain where this new family came from, how he found them, and why he’s even still alive. The film is fairly campy on the realm of the "Friday the 13th" series. Forget it. Comparison: Swamp Thing meets The Vanishing |
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