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I' 5 1,9 9 7 FRIDAY A.S.B.U, A Op, 7 movie review zww of the chop- 'em-up 'Chainsaw' series will appeal to a narrow audience OLrft TEXAS CHAINSAW THE NEXT Not necessarily playing at a theater near you Featuring Renee Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Jacks, Tonie Perenski, Joe Stevens, Lisa Newmyer, John Harrison and Tyler Cone Running time: 86 minutes LINCOLN CINEMA 5 ARLINGTON 997-6873 REGAL CINEMAS MARLBORO CINEMAS 12 RT 9 NORTH MARL8OR0 972-8U1 SONV THEATRES MONMOUTH MALL EAT ON TOWN 935-1000 SONV THEATRES MOUNTAINSIDE MOUNTAINSIDE 232 8331 MOVIE CITY FIVEPLEX W00O6RIDGC 726 01 LOfWS NFW BRUNSWICK NEW BRUNSWICK 846-9200 SONV THEATRES PLAZA 8 mt SECAUCUS 902-9200 ROCXAWAY JW ROCKAWAV TOWNSHIP 328 0666 CINFMA SERVICES NATIONAL AMUSE AKNTS AMB0T MULIIPLEX SAVREVIU 721-3400 LOEWS brick plaza mt BRICK TOWN 262-1545 GENERAL CINEMA BRtOGFWATER COMMONS 7 BRIOGEWATER 725-1161 NEISON-FERMAN CINEMA 12 MRS1PPANY 33S-4141 CmtM PLAZA FIVEPLEX FLEMiNGTON 782-2777 CINEMAGIC MOVIES MIOOLETOWN 671-1020 SONV THEATRES EAST HANOVER JW EAST HANOVER 5 IS 1200 SONV THEATRES FREEHOLD METROPLEJt JW FREEHOLD 294 0888 FRIENOLY CINEMA TWIN AVV1LLE 269 5100 REGAL CINEMAS HAOLEV CINEMA 11 and possibly most satisfying work to date. A high-school girl with a strong will to survive, but one who is repeatedly tortured and driven to hysterics by evil hicks, Jenny (Zellweger) survives an or-deal that would make G.I. Jane flinch. As the roar-ingly primitive lead sadist Vilmer, McConaughey radiates evil and physically intimidates. He's joined by the equally primal Leath-erface (Robert Jacks) in chasing down and By DAVID HUNTER The Hollywood Reporter In the same morbid league as "Death Race 2000," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) was widely reviled by the mainstream as too extreme, but it was rescued from obscurity by rebel cineastes who got their kicks watching innocent people terrorized and killed with stylish direction and sick humor by filmmaker Tobe Hooper.

Blackly comic and extreme in its portrayal of a murderous back-roads clan, Cinepix Film Properties' "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" jokingly refers to the first two "Massacre" sequels made in 1986 and 1990. One has to be in the right mood for this brand of horror-comedy, and for general audiences it's unpalatable. Released originally in 1995 under a different title, "Next Generation" is resurfacing in a shorter version to cash in on the rising stardom of leads Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaug-hey. Those with the stomach and nerves to survive writer-director Kim Henkel's unnerving shriek-fest will find that Zellweger and McConaughey do their riskiest screen mayhem. When Vilmer isn't choking and breaking necks, Leatherface is revving up the chainsaw.

As if this pair wasn't enough, the nest of sickos is rounded out with a quotation-spewing redneck (Joe Stevens) and a deranged floozy (Tonie Perenski). After a few preliminary scares in the forest where Jenny and her friends are stranded, the film gets down to business with the beating and mangling of Newmyer's character, while Jenny keeps escaping the clutches of Vilmer only to be hunted down and forced to endure more serious abuse. She keeps fighting back and eventually earns a well-deserved rescue. Not happy with Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" and "Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III," Henkel, author of the original film, uncorks a frenzy of nightmarish imagery and vicious human behavior. One can't help but root for Zellweger's remarkable character, but one also hopes the franchise is given another long rest.

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