Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3

'The saw is family' - Movie Tagline

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Directed by Jeff Burr 

Starring: Kate Hodge, Viggo Mortenson, William Butler, Ken Foree

Released: January 3rd 1990

Box Office: 5.8M

Concept

Michelle and Ryan, a young couple going through relationship issues are driving in the isolated middle of nowhere, Texas. They are travelling from California to Florida and in Texas come across a body excavation ground where countless people have been killed and preserved in the earth. They are interrogated and advised by an officer to be careful.

The morning after they come across a gas station in a desolate area, after encountering a cowboy who points a route on a map to get to their destination quicker. Accompanying him a creepy pervert things go from bad to worse when the pervert goes on the defensive after creeping on Michelle, and starts shooting at them.

Ryan then takes the cowboys route and after driving for hours until dark a van with a dead coyote at the front hunts them, and thus begins a night the two will never forget. Aided by Benny, a reserve soldier and Sara, a survivor who's been lost in the wooded area for weeks can Michelle and Ryan make it out alive? Or will it be another massacre?

Review

The third instalment in the TCM franchise this film was still in the same bloodline as the previous two. Whereas the original was slow paced and stayed strong with the psychological element with a little craziness, the second was faster paced and had many random moments and wacky characters it was more of a black comedy. This film has shed its skin, kept some quirky characters, kept the pace going well and has its own scenes of action.

Starring a young Viggo Mortenson (you would known him as Aragon in the LOTR franchise). And Ken Foree who is a living legend of horror, he has been in countless horror flicks most notably in the 1978 film Dawn of the Dead, The Devil's Rejects as well as low-key films such as Splatter Disco and Apocalypse of the Dead (I'll get to that one later).

If you like the franchise you won't be disappointed with this film, banned in the UK by the BBFC (British Broadcast of Film Classification) several minutes had to be cut to be released. The film is one of my personal all time favourites and one I'll keep close to my heart, and I hope you can to.

After all....the saw is family.