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Return of Chainsaw' is a sharper secpe DRIVE-IN FU JOE BOB BRIGGS proved, more womanly Leather-face. Joe Stevens, as the Machi-avelli-quoting redneck with a cattle prod and bad teeth who says, "Family values have gone straight to hell." Matthew McConnaughey, as the metal-legged, chest-slicing man of the house who says, "Why are my batteries not charged?" James Gale, as the mysterious body-piercing enthusiast who says, "I want these people to know the meaning of horror is that clear?" Renee Zellweger, as the mousy abused teen-ager who turns out to be the only one with courage. Writer-director Kim Henkel, for doing it the drive-in way. Four stars. Joe Bob says check it out twice.

Joe Bob Briggs' drive-in movie column is distributed by New York Times Special Features. hammer to the head. Bimbo on a meat hook. Stuffed state trooper. Woman on fire.

Face-licking. Head-stomping. Four motor-vehicle chases with four crashes. Evil-Stepfather Fu. Meat-Locker Fu.

Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Tyler Cone, as the spoiled rich-kid son-of-a-lawyer who gets caught kissing another woman on prom night and says, "I can't believe how possessive you are." Tonie Perenski, as the oversexed, violence-loving girlfriend who thinks there's a remote-control bomb in her head, for saying, "It's just local boys trying to give you a little scare, that's all." John Harrison, as the nerdy doper. Lisa Newmyer, as the whiny, gossipy girlfriend who says, "Because I told you, I'm a bitch," and lives up to the tradition of great screamers in this series. Robert Jacks, as a new, im body lost on the highway. And he kept, of course, Leath-erface, the chainsaw-wielding transvestite human-skin-masked legend who inspired every great horror villain of the last three decades, from Jason to Michael Myers to Freddy Krueger to Jame Crumb. Oh yeah.

One other thing. He uses that giant meat hook again. Yuk. This time, two prom-night couples get lost out on the highway where a creepy redneck named W.E. roams around in a satanic wrecker, collecting bodies and quoting literature and trapping teen-age girls in gunny sacks.

When you first meet W.E., you think there prob'ly couldn't be a scarier situation than finding this guy staring down over your hood with a flashlight in the middle of the night. Wait till you meet the rest of his family. This one has so many completely unpredictable twists It took more than 20 years, but we finally have a decent sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is, of course, the greatest drive-in movie ever made. All along we thought that Tobe Hooper, the director of Saw, was a genius. And he is.

He really is. But we completely overlooked the writer of Saw, Kim Henkel, who not only wrote that movie but wrote the second greatest movie to come out of Texas in the last 20 years, Last Night at the Alamo. And now Kim has finally done what he prob'ly shoulda done years ago he has become a director himself. And his first effort is The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a flick so terrifying and brilliant that it makes the other two Chainsaw sequels seem like "After-School Specials." Kim basically kept three things from the original. He kept the house in the woods.

He kept the idea of a mutant cannibal family that lies in wait for any that I don't wanna give it away, but it definitely satisfies the first rule of great drive-in filmmaking anyone can die at any moment. There are a couple of scenes in this baby that were almost too intense for me to watch and I've seen 47,000 of these things. This is the best horror film of the '90s. Eight dead bodies. Two breasts.

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