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* In ''Film/BadTaste'', the AxCrazy character Derek (played by director Creator/PeterJackson) gets hold of a chainsaw. Cue much gore and an awesome moment or two. Cast members Craig Smith and Pete O'Herne admit in a [[http://tbhl.theonering.net/films/bad_taste_hernesmithchat.html web interview]] that it was an homage to ''Franchise/EvilDead'' and ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.
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* The classic horror movie ''[[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]]'' (sic) just might be the {{Trope Maker|s}}. Taken to a whole new level in [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2 the sequel]], which features Creator/DennisHopper [[DualWielding dual-wielding]] chainsaws in a climactic duel against Leatherface. And Leatherface's ''drive-by chainsawing'' in the same film.
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* The classic horror movie ''[[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]]'' ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'' (sic) just might be the {{Trope Maker|s}}. Taken to a whole new level in [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2 the sequel]], which features Creator/DennisHopper [[DualWielding dual-wielding]] chainsaws in a climactic duel against Leatherface. And Leatherface -- and Leatherface's ''drive-by chainsawing'' in the same film.
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* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', Stripe uses a (small) chainsaw from the hardware store to attack the human hero, who fends off the blade with a rapidly-fragmenting wooden baseball bat. Bonus points for awesomeness in that we hear the chainsaw's motor revving up, just before Stripe attacks, and can [[OhCrap guess what the little creep just got his scaly hands on]].
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* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}'', Stripe uses a (small) chainsaw from the hardware store to attack the human hero, who fends off the blade with a rapidly-fragmenting wooden baseball bat. Bonus points for awesomeness in that we hear the chainsaw's motor revving up, just before Stripe attacks, and can [[OhCrap guess what the little creep just got his scaly hands on]].
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* In ''Film/Deranged2012'', FinalGirl Silvia finds a chainsaw in the garden shed and uses it to take on the axe-wielding killer in their final confrontation.
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* In ''Film/Mandy2018'', Red uses a long chainsaw to attack one of [[BigBad Jeremiah Sand]]'s cultists, who pulls out one of his own that is nearly ''twice as long'', allowing them to duel with chainsaws. But as awesome as a duel with chainsaws is, the film also shows [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome how impractical they are as weapons]].
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* In ''Film/Mandy2018'', Red uses a long chainsaw to attack one of [[BigBad Jeremiah Sand]]'s cultists, who pulls out one of his own that is nearly ''twice as long'', allowing them to duel with chainsaws. But as awesome as a duel with chainsaws is, the film also shows [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome [[AwesomeButImpractical how impractical they are as weapons]].
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* ''Film/ROyalWarriors'' have the last villain, Bull, using a chainsaw to attack the heroine Michelle (played by Creator/MichelleYeoh). After several close shaves, Michelle managed to trick bull into shoving the saw into some plants, where he gets LeftStuckAfterAttack and Michelle gets some kicks in.
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* ''Film/ROyalWarriors'' ''Film/RoyalWarriors'' have the last villain, Bull, using a chainsaw to attack the heroine Michelle (played by Creator/MichelleYeoh). After several close shaves, Michelle managed to trick bull into shoving the saw into some plants, where he gets LeftStuckAfterAttack and Michelle gets some kicks in.
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* In ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', Gigan eventually receives ''a pair of double-pronged chainsaws instead of hands''. This is also the same monster who has a buzzsaw in his torso. And before the chainsaws for hands, he had [[HookHand hooks for hands]]. Gigan can even use these chainsaws like rudimentary tank tracks, jamming the ends into the ground and using them to accelerate forward at quite impressive speeds.
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* In The space monster Gigan, first introduced in ''Film/GodzillaVsGigan'', qualifies for the buzzsaw variant of this trope thanks to his rotating cutter that runs down his chest, and he puts it to great use in battle against Godzilla and Anguirus, including a particularly brutal moment where Anguirus makes the mistake of charging him while he has it running, getting his face sliced for his trouble. This is taken further in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', where Gigan eventually receives ''a pair of double-pronged chainsaws instead of hands''. This is also the same monster who has a buzzsaw in his torso.hands''. And before the chainsaws for hands, he had [[HookHand hooks for hands]]. Gigan can even use these chainsaws like rudimentary tank tracks, jamming the ends into the ground and using them to accelerate forward at quite impressive speeds.
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* ''Film/HellsHighway'': When the video ends, Lucindia appears, and attacks and mortally wounds Chris with a chainsaw.
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* ''Film/{{Slashers}}'': As indicated by his name, Chainsaw Charlie uses a chainsaw as his WeaponOfChoice.
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* ''Film/DontLook'': The killer does in Alex by [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cutting him in half at the waist]] with a chainsaw.
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* ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': "L is for Libido". After finally failing to be the first to climax, the protagonist wakes up to find himself ChainedToABed, having sex with a beautiful woman. Who then pulls out a chainsaw and proceeds to [[OutWithABang hack him to death while she continues to ride him]].
* Patrick Bateman in ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' chases a prostitute through an apartment building in New York City with a chainsaw while ''[[FullFrontalAssault naked]]''. The sequence may have been a figment of his deranged imagination. Not only does he kill her with the chainsaw, he drops it on her from several stories up and kills her. Ignoring the fact that most modern chainsaws have a safety on it so that if you let it go, it'll turn off. If you look closely you can see judicious use of Duct Tape.
* In ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'', Vanderhoe carries a buzzsaw device around, which is useful to cut through both zombies and other materials (to open paths for the latter).
* In ''Film/BadTaste'', the AxCrazy character Derek (played by director Creator/PeterJackson) gets hold of a chainsaw. Cue much gore and an awesome moment or two. Cast members Craig Smith and Pete O'Herne admit in a [[http://tbhl.theonering.net/films/bad_taste_hernesmithchat.html web interview]] that it was an homage to ''Franchise/EvilDead'' and ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.
* In ''Film/BigTitsZombie'', the main character finds a chainsaw and is so overjoyed, she practically starts crying. The chainsaw even glows. This movie loves this trope so much that the first zombie kill, moments into the film, is a chainsaw attack.
* Subverted in the horror-comedy ''Film/BlackSheep2007'', in which Henry needs to perform half a dozen steps to get a complicated chainsaw's motor started, only to drop it over the side when the truck he's riding goes over a bump in the field.
* ''Film/BloodPi'': When Professor Milbern is handcuffed to the ceiling of Omega Pi's basement, Amber comes down and uses a chainsaw to [[GroinAttack castrate him]].
* Ed Gein picks up a chainsaw and uses it to drive off the Zodiac Killer in ''Film/TheButchers''.
* As the cast of ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornVFieldsOfTerror'' become besieged in a barn, Tyrus picks up a chainsaw. After he is killed, one of the children pick it up and start chasing Allison with it.
* ''Film/{{Dark of the Sun}}'', based on the Wilbur Smith novel, features two men in a chainsaw duel.
* ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'': Painfully subverted during a high-speed zombie car chase. One of the characters accidentally loses his grasp of the chainsaw, which cuts into another survivor. This causes their getaway truck to topple over.
* ''Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker'' by Christoph Schlingensief, a political satire on the reunification of Germany, is a nod to the ''Texas'' original already in the title.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2eSP3D0s0w In]] ''Film/EvilAliens'', a combine harvester is a ''drivable'' chainsaw.
* Ash Williams from the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films. This is a badass guy who ''cut off his own [[EvilHand demon-possessed hand]]'' and [[BadassTransplant replaced it]] with ''a chainsaw mounting''. Obviously not to be taken lightly. He still has it in ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', but soon replaces it with a [[ArtificialLimbs mechanical hand]] that he just invented because why not.
* In ''Film/FantasyIsland2020'', Dr. Torture wields an electric bone saw as one of his primary weapons. He nearly succeeds in driving it into Sloane's head, but she is saved by a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind by Damon.
* In ''Film/Firestorm1998'', Jesse dissuades pursuit by throwing a running chainsaw through the windscreen of the villains' truck.
* "Chainsaw-against-the-killer" also happens in ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'' and ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'', with more succession in the latter as the supposed victim manages to get away even though her chainsaw runs out of fuel.
* In ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', Gigan eventually receives ''a pair of double-pronged chainsaws instead of hands''. This is also the same monster who has a buzzsaw in his torso. And before the chainsaws for hands, he had [[HookHand hooks for hands]]. Gigan can even use these chainsaws like rudimentary tank tracks, jamming the ends into the ground and using them to accelerate forward at quite impressive speeds.
* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', Stripe uses a (small) chainsaw from the hardware store to attack the human hero, who fends off the blade with a rapidly-fragmenting wooden baseball bat. Bonus points for awesomeness in that we hear the chainsaw's motor revving up, just before Stripe attacks, and can [[OhCrap guess what the little creep just got his scaly hands on]].
* ''Film/HalloweenResurrection''. Sarah gets a few good swings in before it stops working (which is probably justified, since she found it among the junk in the Myers' abandoned garage) prompting her into ''throwing it'' at Michael.
* In ''Film/TheHazing'', Justine bursts into the bedroom where Delia and Roy are having sex wielding a running chainsaw in an attempt to scare them. However, as Dela is currently being strangled by Roy's detached OverlyLongTongue, it does not have the desired effect. Roy grabs the chainsaw off her and uses it to kill the tongue.
* ''Film/{{Helldriver}}'' give us chainsaw-wielding zombies... so of course the heroine takes them down with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter chainsaw katana]].
* ''Film/HighTension'': Both the killer and the protagonist get a turn with a circular saw.
* The first ''Film/{{Hostel}}''. Boy, did that backfire. The sequel has a circular saw.
* ''Film/HotBot'': When he thinks that Bardot is a zombie, Nard arrives at Huffy's house with a chainsaw to destroy her. Becomes a ChekhovsGun when he uses it to escape from [[PunkInTheTrunk the trunk of his car]].
%%* ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''
* A Chainsaw arm shows up in ''Film/TheMachineGirl'' alongside a Machine Gun one.
* ''Film/MadMax''
** ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. During the Thunderdome fight, Max snatches a chainsaw to fight Blaster, but struggles to get it working. After it finally catches, it runs out of fuel before he can even swing it. Fuel ''is'' the most precious commodity, after all.
** In its continuation ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', multiple War Boys try to cleave the heroes with chainsaws (although they end up killing other War Boys instead thanks to some DeadlyDodging). The one War Boy that manages to fatally wound a hero is a downplayed example, cutting the Keeper of the Seeds' jugular with an arm-mounted hedge trimmer.
* In a case of a victim using a chainsaw against the killer occurs in ''Film/ManiacCop2'', where the heroine of the [[Film/ManiacCop previous entry]] is thrown through the window of a hardware store by Officer Cordell. Grabbing a chainsaw, she tries to attack him with it but he just nonchalantly grabs the blade, wrenches it from her grasp and [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome snaps her neck]].
* In ''Film/Mandy2018'', Red uses a long chainsaw to attack one of [[BigBad Jeremiah Sand]]'s cultists, who pulls out one of his own that is nearly ''twice as long'', allowing them to duel with chainsaws. But as awesome as a duel with chainsaws is, the film also shows [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome how impractical they are as weapons]].
* In the final battle of ''Film/TheMarine'', [[BigBad Rome]] attacks [[Wrestling/JohnCena Triton]] with one. Triton defends himself with a wrench, which gets sawed in half, but manages to force Roman to drop the chainsaw.
* In ''Film/MonsterParty'', Patrick hands Cameron a chainsaw when they go hunting Casper and Alexis. Cameron's eyes light up with a manic glee as he revs the engine.
* ''Film/MotelHell'' ends with a chainsaw duel between a sheriff and a crazed farmer wearing a pig's head as a mask.
* In ''Film/MrMom'', Jack Butler's first meeting with his wife Caroline's boss Ron Richardson is when he is wielding a chainsaw and coming into the house with it still running. Played mostly for laughs as Jack makes it look like he's just using it for remodeling the house, though after Ron leaves Jack contemplates using it for "trimming" Ron's mustache.
* Subverted in ''Film/MrNiceGuy'', when a {{Mook|s}} swings a big circular grinder at Jackie, but it comes unplugged the instant the thug tries to chase him with it.
* ''Film/MutantGirlsSquad'' by Noboru Iguchi. Featuring a girl who can produce a chainsaw from her [[AssPull backside....]]
* When G-Girl reveals her secret identity to Matt in ''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend'' she makes him swear that he would rather have a chainsaw shoved up his ass than tell. When Matt imagines he tells his friend, she brandishes a chainsaw telling him he was warned.
* ''Film/MyNameIsBruce'' references Ash's signature chainsaw. When a rabid fan offers Bruce Campbell a chainsaw modeled on ''Evil Dead'' to fight an unleashed god, Bruce is honored but turns it down because it's too damn heavy and unwieldy to use in combat.
* The [[HumongousMecha Jaeger]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Crimson Typhoon]] from ''Film/PacificRim'' can transform its [[MultiArmedAndDangerous three]] hands into circular saws.
* Zig-zagged in ''Film/PainAndGain''. It gets jammed by hair rather easily, but then Daniel complains it's a cheap piece of crap.
* In ''Film/PhantasmII'', Reggie must fight a [[GasMaskMooks graver]] in a chainsaw duel.
* The killer in ''Film/{{Pieces}}'' uses a chainsaw to cut up his victims and collect the bodyparts that he desire for his project.
* In the fourth ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' movie, Tackleberry scares off a few new recruits to the Citizens on Patrol program with a chainsaw -- specifically by cutting his way out of a body bag.
* When the Freeling family are escaping their house and get in their car in ''Film/PoltergeistIITheOtherSide'', a possessed flying chainsaw tries to stop them.
* ''Film/PulpFiction'': When Butch is choosing a weapon to use to rescue his enemy Marsellus Wallace, the chainsaw is in the middle of his weapon escalation. He tosses aside a hammer to take the chainsaw, then tosses the chainsaw to grab [[KatanasAreJustBetter a katana]]. Swords ''are'' easier to sneak up on people with, after all.
* TheDragon in ''Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing'' attempts to attack Swamp Thing with a chainsaw.
* ''Film/RobotJox'' gives us a chainsaw on the BigBad's robot. Its placement on the robot's torso is near crotch-level.
* Buzzsaw from ''Film/TheRunningMan''. He even mounts his chainsaw to his motorcycle.
* In ''Film/{{Savaged}}'', Trey chooses to wield a chainsaw as his weapon in his final showdown against the RevenantZombie Zoe.
* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series seems to prefer circular saws to chainsaws.
** Jigsaw is killed by Jeff with one in ''Film/SawIII''.
** William is attacked by Debbie with one in ''Film/SawVI''
** The Public Execution Trap from ''Film/Saw3D'' has two circular saws.
* In ''Film/ScareCampaign'', one of the [[MalevolentMaskedmen Masked Freaks]] kills [[spoiler:Tony]] using a chainsaw [[WeaponizedCamera attached to his camera]], so they can capture the footage for their SnuffFilm.
* In ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'', one of Tony's friends meets a chainsaw-caused death gruesome enough to have a GoryDiscretionShot used.
* ''Film/{{Scarred}}'': Naturally, a chainsaw would be amongst Jonah Kandie's murder implements. One notable scene has him [[spoiler:killing Shawn while he's stuck in a wall]].
* This is Fin's weapon of choice in the climax of ''Film/{{Sharknado}}''. It was so effective then that in ''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'', he actively seeks some out even earlier in the film after being informed that gun stores are illegal in New York. The sequel also features one old guy who revs up a bunch of chainsaws before hurling them into the wind to chop up the sharks on their own. In ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'', Fin receives as an award a fully functional gold-plated chainsaw. April's artificial hand can be swapped out for a chainsaw, and in the climax, [[spoiler:Fin gets a [[LaserBlade lightsaber]] chainsaw.]]
* ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'' has the Furies bind and decapitate Orpheus with a hedge trimmer after he fails the rigged game show.
* ''Film/{{Slashers}}'': As indicated by his name, Chainsaw Charlie uses a chainsaw as his WeaponOfChoice.
* In the 2007 movie ''Film/SmokinAces'', one of the Tremor brothers uses a hand-mounted chainsaw during their assault on the Nomad Hotel, with predictably devastating results.
* ''Film/{{Stacy}}'', a Japanese movie concerning zombie schoolgirls (or "Stacies") who only seek love and acceptance from the living (despite eating many of them), reveals that the only way to destroy a Stacy is via "repeat-killing," specifically dismemberment. To facilitate this, one can purchase [[spoiler: "Bruce Campbell's Right Hand," a chainsaw that fits over the user's right hand.]] It comes in several different colors, many of them new this season!
* The killer in ''Film/StageFrightAquarius'' manages to kill one victim with a chainsaw until it runs out of fuel.
* ‘’Film/SundownTheVampireInRetreat’’ has Ramon, one of the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire scientists producing a blood substitute to live off, do this in an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome to seize some of the guns being used by more violent and traditional vampires trying to wipe the group out.
* ''Film/TalesOfHalloween'': In "Friday the 31st", the killer uses a chainsaw to cut off Dorothy's arm during their final fight
* The classic horror movie ''[[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]]'' (sic) just might be the {{Trope Maker|s}}. Taken to a whole new level in [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2 the sequel]], which features Creator/DennisHopper [[DualWielding dual-wielding]] chainsaws in a climactic duel against Leatherface. And Leatherface's ''drive-by chainsawing'' in the same film.
* ''Film/TigerOnBeat'': This Hong Kong Buddy Cop film climaxes with TheHero and TheDragon battling each other... with chainsaws!
* Art for ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' showed that one of the options for Optimus Prime's weapons pack -- an option which was not used in the final film -- included a ''giant, triple-chained chainsword''.
* ''Film/TheTripper'': As a child, Gus used a chainsaw to murder the protestor who struck his father. The killer scores his last kill of the film with one.
* In ''Film/VampiresVsZombies'', Travis uses a hedge trimmer (although he calls it a chainsaw) to wipe out the pack of zombie schoolgirls attacking Jenna.
* In ''Film/VeryBadThings'', Boyd uses a chainsaw to cut up the two bodies in the hotel bathroom.
* In ''Film/TheVideoDead'', a character manages to put most of the eponymous undead into pieces with a chainsaw. The remaining one snatches the thing, [[spoiler:and eventually manages to impale him with it]].
* ''Film/VoyageOfTheRockAliens'': The aptly-named Chainsaw spends most of the movie killing people, but he does have a heroic moment towards the end, when he [[spoiler:fights off the tentacle monster attacking Dee Dee and Frankie]].
%%* ''Film/TheWizardOfGore''
* Aiko, one of the heroines in the Japanese comedy/horror flick ''Film/XCross'' uses a rather conveniently placed chainsaw at one point to fight an [[CuteAndPsycho insane]], [[ImprobableWeaponUser giant-pair-of-scissors-wielding]] [[ElegantGothicLolita Goth Lolita]] named Reika. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, this fails, as she winds up ''dropping'' it. She ultimately resorts to [[KillItWithFire torching]] Reika. Which ''also'' fails.]]
* In ''Film/ZombiesZombiesZombies'', Dallas grabs the chainsaw from the back of Chris's truck and uses it to fight her way through the zombies in the car park.
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* Patrick Bateman in ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' chases a prostitute through an apartment building in New York City with a chainsaw while ''[[FullFrontalAssault naked]]''. The sequence may have been a figment of his deranged imagination. Not only does he kill her with the chainsaw, he drops it on her from several stories up and kills her. Ignoring the fact that most modern chainsaws have a safety on it so that if you let it go, it'll turn off. If you look closely you can see judicious use of Duct Tape.
* In ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'', Vanderhoe carries a buzzsaw device around, which is useful to cut through both zombies and other materials (to open paths for the latter).
* In ''Film/BadTaste'', the AxCrazy character Derek (played by director Creator/PeterJackson) gets hold of a chainsaw. Cue much gore and an awesome moment or two. Cast members Craig Smith and Pete O'Herne admit in a [[http://tbhl.theonering.net/films/bad_taste_hernesmithchat.html web interview]] that it was an homage to ''Franchise/EvilDead'' and ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.
* In ''Film/BigTitsZombie'', the main character finds a chainsaw and is so overjoyed, she practically starts crying. The chainsaw even glows. This movie loves this trope so much that the first zombie kill, moments into the film, is a chainsaw attack.
* Subverted in the horror-comedy ''Film/BlackSheep2007'', in which Henry needs to perform half a dozen steps to get a complicated chainsaw's motor started, only to drop it over the side when the truck he's riding goes over a bump in the field.
* ''Film/BloodPi'': When Professor Milbern is handcuffed to the ceiling of Omega Pi's basement, Amber comes down and uses a chainsaw to [[GroinAttack castrate him]].
* Ed Gein picks up a chainsaw and uses it to drive off the Zodiac Killer in ''Film/TheButchers''.
* As the cast of ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornVFieldsOfTerror'' become besieged in a barn, Tyrus picks up a chainsaw. After he is killed, one of the children pick it up and start chasing Allison with it.
* ''Film/{{Dark of the Sun}}'', based on the Wilbur Smith novel, features two men in a chainsaw duel.
* ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'': Painfully subverted during a high-speed zombie car chase. One of the characters accidentally loses his grasp of the chainsaw, which cuts into another survivor. This causes their getaway truck to topple over.
* ''Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker'' by Christoph Schlingensief, a political satire on the reunification of Germany, is a nod to the ''Texas'' original already in the title.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2eSP3D0s0w In]] ''Film/EvilAliens'', a combine harvester is a ''drivable'' chainsaw.
* Ash Williams from the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films. This is a badass guy who ''cut off his own [[EvilHand demon-possessed hand]]'' and [[BadassTransplant replaced it]] with ''a chainsaw mounting''. Obviously not to be taken lightly. He still has it in ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', but soon replaces it with a [[ArtificialLimbs mechanical hand]] that he just invented because why not.
* In ''Film/FantasyIsland2020'', Dr. Torture wields an electric bone saw as one of his primary weapons. He nearly succeeds in driving it into Sloane's head, but she is saved by a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind by Damon.
* In ''Film/Firestorm1998'', Jesse dissuades pursuit by throwing a running chainsaw through the windscreen of the villains' truck.
* "Chainsaw-against-the-killer" also happens in ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'' and ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'', with more succession in the latter as the supposed victim manages to get away even though her chainsaw runs out of fuel.
* In ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', Gigan eventually receives ''a pair of double-pronged chainsaws instead of hands''. This is also the same monster who has a buzzsaw in his torso. And before the chainsaws for hands, he had [[HookHand hooks for hands]]. Gigan can even use these chainsaws like rudimentary tank tracks, jamming the ends into the ground and using them to accelerate forward at quite impressive speeds.
* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', Stripe uses a (small) chainsaw from the hardware store to attack the human hero, who fends off the blade with a rapidly-fragmenting wooden baseball bat. Bonus points for awesomeness in that we hear the chainsaw's motor revving up, just before Stripe attacks, and can [[OhCrap guess what the little creep just got his scaly hands on]].
* ''Film/HalloweenResurrection''. Sarah gets a few good swings in before it stops working (which is probably justified, since she found it among the junk in the Myers' abandoned garage) prompting her into ''throwing it'' at Michael.
* In ''Film/TheHazing'', Justine bursts into the bedroom where Delia and Roy are having sex wielding a running chainsaw in an attempt to scare them. However, as Dela is currently being strangled by Roy's detached OverlyLongTongue, it does not have the desired effect. Roy grabs the chainsaw off her and uses it to kill the tongue.
* ''Film/{{Helldriver}}'' give us chainsaw-wielding zombies... so of course the heroine takes them down with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter chainsaw katana]].
* ''Film/HighTension'': Both the killer and the protagonist get a turn with a circular saw.
* The first ''Film/{{Hostel}}''. Boy, did that backfire. The sequel has a circular saw.
* ''Film/HotBot'': When he thinks that Bardot is a zombie, Nard arrives at Huffy's house with a chainsaw to destroy her. Becomes a ChekhovsGun when he uses it to escape from [[PunkInTheTrunk the trunk of his car]].
%%* ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''
* A Chainsaw arm shows up in ''Film/TheMachineGirl'' alongside a Machine Gun one.
* ''Film/MadMax''
** ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. During the Thunderdome fight, Max snatches a chainsaw to fight Blaster, but struggles to get it working. After it finally catches, it runs out of fuel before he can even swing it. Fuel ''is'' the most precious commodity, after all.
** In its continuation ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', multiple War Boys try to cleave the heroes with chainsaws (although they end up killing other War Boys instead thanks to some DeadlyDodging). The one War Boy that manages to fatally wound a hero is a downplayed example, cutting the Keeper of the Seeds' jugular with an arm-mounted hedge trimmer.
* In a case of a victim using a chainsaw against the killer occurs in ''Film/ManiacCop2'', where the heroine of the [[Film/ManiacCop previous entry]] is thrown through the window of a hardware store by Officer Cordell. Grabbing a chainsaw, she tries to attack him with it but he just nonchalantly grabs the blade, wrenches it from her grasp and [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome snaps her neck]].
* In ''Film/Mandy2018'', Red uses a long chainsaw to attack one of [[BigBad Jeremiah Sand]]'s cultists, who pulls out one of his own that is nearly ''twice as long'', allowing them to duel with chainsaws. But as awesome as a duel with chainsaws is, the film also shows [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome how impractical they are as weapons]].
* In the final battle of ''Film/TheMarine'', [[BigBad Rome]] attacks [[Wrestling/JohnCena Triton]] with one. Triton defends himself with a wrench, which gets sawed in half, but manages to force Roman to drop the chainsaw.
* In ''Film/MonsterParty'', Patrick hands Cameron a chainsaw when they go hunting Casper and Alexis. Cameron's eyes light up with a manic glee as he revs the engine.
* ''Film/MotelHell'' ends with a chainsaw duel between a sheriff and a crazed farmer wearing a pig's head as a mask.
* In ''Film/MrMom'', Jack Butler's first meeting with his wife Caroline's boss Ron Richardson is when he is wielding a chainsaw and coming into the house with it still running. Played mostly for laughs as Jack makes it look like he's just using it for remodeling the house, though after Ron leaves Jack contemplates using it for "trimming" Ron's mustache.
* Subverted in ''Film/MrNiceGuy'', when a {{Mook|s}} swings a big circular grinder at Jackie, but it comes unplugged the instant the thug tries to chase him with it.
* ''Film/MutantGirlsSquad'' by Noboru Iguchi. Featuring a girl who can produce a chainsaw from her [[AssPull backside....]]
* When G-Girl reveals her secret identity to Matt in ''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend'' she makes him swear that he would rather have a chainsaw shoved up his ass than tell. When Matt imagines he tells his friend, she brandishes a chainsaw telling him he was warned.
* ''Film/MyNameIsBruce'' references Ash's signature chainsaw. When a rabid fan offers Bruce Campbell a chainsaw modeled on ''Evil Dead'' to fight an unleashed god, Bruce is honored but turns it down because it's too damn heavy and unwieldy to use in combat.
* The [[HumongousMecha Jaeger]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Crimson Typhoon]] from ''Film/PacificRim'' can transform its [[MultiArmedAndDangerous three]] hands into circular saws.
* Zig-zagged in ''Film/PainAndGain''. It gets jammed by hair rather easily, but then Daniel complains it's a cheap piece of crap.
* In ''Film/PhantasmII'', Reggie must fight a [[GasMaskMooks graver]] in a chainsaw duel.
* The killer in ''Film/{{Pieces}}'' uses a chainsaw to cut up his victims and collect the bodyparts that he desire for his project.
* In the fourth ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' movie, Tackleberry scares off a few new recruits to the Citizens on Patrol program with a chainsaw -- specifically by cutting his way out of a body bag.
* When the Freeling family are escaping their house and get in their car in ''Film/PoltergeistIITheOtherSide'', a possessed flying chainsaw tries to stop them.
* ''Film/PulpFiction'': When Butch is choosing a weapon to use to rescue his enemy Marsellus Wallace, the chainsaw is in the middle of his weapon escalation. He tosses aside a hammer to take the chainsaw, then tosses the chainsaw to grab [[KatanasAreJustBetter a katana]]. Swords ''are'' easier to sneak up on people with, after all.
* TheDragon in ''Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing'' attempts to attack Swamp Thing with a chainsaw.
* ''Film/RobotJox'' gives us a chainsaw on the BigBad's robot. Its placement on the robot's torso is near crotch-level.
* Buzzsaw from ''Film/TheRunningMan''. He even mounts his chainsaw to his motorcycle.
* In ''Film/{{Savaged}}'', Trey chooses to wield a chainsaw as his weapon in his final showdown against the RevenantZombie Zoe.
* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series seems to prefer circular saws to chainsaws.
** Jigsaw is killed by Jeff with one in ''Film/SawIII''.
** William is attacked by Debbie with one in ''Film/SawVI''
** The Public Execution Trap from ''Film/Saw3D'' has two circular saws.
* In ''Film/ScareCampaign'', one of the [[MalevolentMaskedmen Masked Freaks]] kills [[spoiler:Tony]] using a chainsaw [[WeaponizedCamera attached to his camera]], so they can capture the footage for their SnuffFilm.
* In ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'', one of Tony's friends meets a chainsaw-caused death gruesome enough to have a GoryDiscretionShot used.
* ''Film/{{Scarred}}'': Naturally, a chainsaw would be amongst Jonah Kandie's murder implements. One notable scene has him [[spoiler:killing Shawn while he's stuck in a wall]].
* This is Fin's weapon of choice in the climax of ''Film/{{Sharknado}}''. It was so effective then that in ''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'', he actively seeks some out even earlier in the film after being informed that gun stores are illegal in New York. The sequel also features one old guy who revs up a bunch of chainsaws before hurling them into the wind to chop up the sharks on their own. In ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'', Fin receives as an award a fully functional gold-plated chainsaw. April's artificial hand can be swapped out for a chainsaw, and in the climax, [[spoiler:Fin gets a [[LaserBlade lightsaber]] chainsaw.]]
* ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'' has the Furies bind and decapitate Orpheus with a hedge trimmer after he fails the rigged game show.
* ''Film/{{Slashers}}'': As indicated by his name, Chainsaw Charlie uses a chainsaw as his WeaponOfChoice.
* In the 2007 movie ''Film/SmokinAces'', one of the Tremor brothers uses a hand-mounted chainsaw during their assault on the Nomad Hotel, with predictably devastating results.
* ''Film/{{Stacy}}'', a Japanese movie concerning zombie schoolgirls (or "Stacies") who only seek love and acceptance from the living (despite eating many of them), reveals that the only way to destroy a Stacy is via "repeat-killing," specifically dismemberment. To facilitate this, one can purchase [[spoiler: "Bruce Campbell's Right Hand," a chainsaw that fits over the user's right hand.]] It comes in several different colors, many of them new this season!
* The killer in ''Film/StageFrightAquarius'' manages to kill one victim with a chainsaw until it runs out of fuel.
* ‘’Film/SundownTheVampireInRetreat’’ has Ramon, one of the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire scientists producing a blood substitute to live off, do this in an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome to seize some of the guns being used by more violent and traditional vampires trying to wipe the group out.
* ''Film/TalesOfHalloween'': In "Friday the 31st", the killer uses a chainsaw to cut off Dorothy's arm during their final fight
* The classic horror movie ''[[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]]'' (sic) just might be the {{Trope Maker|s}}. Taken to a whole new level in [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2 the sequel]], which features Creator/DennisHopper [[DualWielding dual-wielding]] chainsaws in a climactic duel against Leatherface. And Leatherface's ''drive-by chainsawing'' in the same film.
* ''Film/TigerOnBeat'': This Hong Kong Buddy Cop film climaxes with TheHero and TheDragon battling each other... with chainsaws!
* Art for ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' showed that one of the options for Optimus Prime's weapons pack -- an option which was not used in the final film -- included a ''giant, triple-chained chainsword''.
* ''Film/TheTripper'': As a child, Gus used a chainsaw to murder the protestor who struck his father. The killer scores his last kill of the film with one.
* In ''Film/VampiresVsZombies'', Travis uses a hedge trimmer (although he calls it a chainsaw) to wipe out the pack of zombie schoolgirls attacking Jenna.
* In ''Film/VeryBadThings'', Boyd uses a chainsaw to cut up the two bodies in the hotel bathroom.
* In ''Film/TheVideoDead'', a character manages to put most of the eponymous undead into pieces with a chainsaw. The remaining one snatches the thing, [[spoiler:and eventually manages to impale him with it]].
* ''Film/VoyageOfTheRockAliens'': The aptly-named Chainsaw spends most of the movie killing people, but he does have a heroic moment towards the end, when he [[spoiler:fights off the tentacle monster attacking Dee Dee and Frankie]].
%%* ''Film/TheWizardOfGore''
* Aiko, one of the heroines in the Japanese comedy/horror flick ''Film/XCross'' uses a rather conveniently placed chainsaw at one point to fight an [[CuteAndPsycho insane]], [[ImprobableWeaponUser giant-pair-of-scissors-wielding]] [[ElegantGothicLolita Goth Lolita]] named Reika. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, this fails, as she winds up ''dropping'' it. She ultimately resorts to [[KillItWithFire torching]] Reika. Which ''also'' fails.]]
* In ''Film/ZombiesZombiesZombies'', Dallas grabs the chainsaw from the back of Chris's truck and uses it to fight her way through the zombies in the car park.
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