Line #22 Film/TexasChainsawMassacreTheNextGeneration


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3	''The Next Generation'' is the fourth ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' film from the year 1995.
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5	A bunch of teens drive off from prom night grounds and end up in a car crash. This leads to further trouble as they encounter the crazy Texas family we all know.
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7	!!This film has the examples of:
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9	* ActorAllusion: At the beginning of the dinner scene, Vilmer says, [[Film/DazedAndConfused "Alright, alright, alright!"]]
10	* AffablyEvil: Darla is polite and kind to Jenny and reassures her in contrast to Vilmers sadism.
11	* AssholeVictim: Barry is introduced cheating on his girlfriend Heather, is constantly whining and rude to everyone and suffers from a severe case of NeverMyFault. Nobody will shed any tears when Leatherface kills him.
12	* ArtificialLimbs: Vilmer's weird leg contraption.
13	* BodyHorror: Rothman's abdominal mutilations.
14	* CallBack: The movie ends the same way the original did with Leatherface flailing his chainsaw in the air.
15	** Leatherface puts Heather on a meat hook and is left to suffer in agony, similar to what happened to Pam in the original.
16	* TheCameo: Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain and John Dugan (Sally, Franklin and Grandpa from the first film) all appear briefly at the end of the film. Marilyn Burns is the [[spoiler: patient on the gurney Jenny stares at]] but was credited as "Anonymous".
17	* CanonDiscontinuity: The director intended the film to be a true sequel to the original, though it ends up eschewing that film as well, placing it in its own standalone continuity.
18	* CarFu: Vilmer [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill repeatedly]] runs Sean over with his tow truck.
19	* ChekhovsGunman: Darla, the insurance agent who the kids meet when they need a phone to call a tow truck. She turns out to be [[spoiler: the girlfriend of Vilmer, a member of Leatherface's family]].
20	** Rothman, who appears at the dinner scene but leaves and isn't seen until the end of the movie when [[spoiler: Jenny is running from Vilmer and Leatherface]].
21	* CreepyCrossdresser: Leatherface puts on some female clothes (and skin) for the usual "messed up dinner scene".
22	* DeusExMachina: Jenny is rescued by [[spoiler: Rothman in a limo allowing her to escape from Leatherface]].
23	* TheDitz: Heather.
24	* DomesticAbuse:
25	** Jenny's asshole stepfather.
26	** Vilmer has a habit of smacking Darla around, though she's perfectly capable of hitting back.
27	* DysfunctionalFamily: Leatherface, W.E., Vilmer, and his girlfriend Darla.
28	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: A character with whom the protagonists are involved in a car crash is credited as "I'm Not Hurt".
29	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The movie takes place over the course of one night and ends early the next morning.
30	* FailedASpotCheck: Barry enters the Slaughter household and uses the bathroom, not only does he not seem to notice that walls are decorated with taxidermied flesh, he somehow doesn't see or smell the rotten corpse in the bathtub until he's finished peeing.
31	* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Jenny]].
32	* GainaxEnding: It says a lot about the ending that [[spoiler:a plane suddenly flying down, killing Vilmer with its propeller and then vanishing again]] is one of the ''least'' objectionable things that happens.
33	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The film starts on a prom night, which quickly goes down south.
34	* IdiotBall: All four protagonists, including Jenny, hold the ball at various points in the film.
35	* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: Jenny finds a revolver and tries to shoot Leatherface, only for it to have no bullets. She managed to get W.E.'s shotgun on Vilmer but once again, pulls the trigger and nothing happens.
36	* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Even though it is regarded by the director (Kim Henkel, co-creator of the original ''TCM'') as the "real" sequel to the first one (in the form of a SoftReboot), many elements of this film make ''no'' sense whatsoever. [[spoiler: Among them are the facts that Leatherface is now apparently a transvestite (possibly a ShoutOut to Buffalo Bill in ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''), who's brother is a trucker with a self-made cybernetic leg, and the whole family belongs to the secret society known as the Illuminati (which, according to the film, [[WhoShotJFK planned JFK's assassination]]), which is run by the government, whose leader is shown to be somewhat alien in nature.]]
37	* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Heather]] ends up in flames.
38	* NeckSnap: Done by Vilmer to the unnamed injured driver in the woods.
39	* NeverTrustATitle: The only film in the franchise where nobody is killed with a chainsaw.
40	* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Whatever is controlling the family.
41	* PoliceAreUseless: Especially the cops in the Bud's Pizza scene who notice Darla acting suspicious around the open boot of her car, question her about it, only to then dismiss the weirdness when she acts coy around them.
42	* RasputinianDeath: Heather goes through a series of fatal circumstances before finally dying. This includes: being hung on a meathook and somehow eventually managing to free herself (The fact that she didn't bleed out is miraculous within itself). Then when she is intercepted and brought back to Vilmer's house, she is implied to have had her face cut off. Then she is set on fire. Finally, Vilmer puts Heather out of her misery by crushing her skull.
43	* RevengeOfTheSequel: The film is also known as ''The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre''.
44	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The grandfather leaves during the dinner scene when things get too crazy.
45	* SelfHarm: Vilmer repeatedly cuts into his chest and arms during this films dinner sequence... for some reason.
46	* ShockStick: W.E. uses a cattle prod as his weapon of choice.
47	* SpotlightStealingSquad: Vilmer. He [[LargeHam chews the scenery]] and gets almost all the kills ([[{{Irony}} Leatherface is only responsible for one]]).
48	* TheStoner: Sean, and to a lesser extent, Jenny. The whole reason they get wrapped up in the plot is because they were getting high in the back of Barry's car.
49	* TooDumbToLive: When Sean witnesses Vilmer killing a knocked-out driver, he runs away while Vilmer starts chasing him. Rather than try and hide in the forest, Sean carries on running ''in the open field''. Predictably, he doesn't get far, trips and gets run over.
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51	* WickedCultured: W.E. has a tendency to quote famous authors and historical figures in his one liners.
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