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-wna -w-l 4 r-'TK r-'A 1 -M- fc-' fQ16 The Columbian Friday Sept 29 1995 vvp--1w i -H- fc Massacre is hack on She screen reVe Oof Something For Everybody! LOCATION EAST' LOCATION WEST 705 Paifc Crm on Mi PMn CaKy JVB 1313 NE 134 SI 254-7018 jpnaassmmK 574910 igfigaMgiiiNifeiaiiM Rmm Zellweger plays the only teen who manages to survive for long in "The Return of the Tsxas Chainsaw Dr Judith Collins is accepting patients with mild to moderate ulcerative colitis for participation in a research study of prezatidc copper acetate (PCA) If you are eligible to participate you will receive the investigational medication and study related treatments at no charge You must have ulcerative colitis and be at least 18 years of age and not on prednisone in order to be accepted as a participant For more information call: Andhe8S chainsaw massacre fBmsgothisone ranks right up there By DAVE JEWETT The Columbian If you think you Ye seen dysfunctional families on Sally Jessy Raphael show wait until you get a gander at the one in "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre" One person wears a leather mask and wields a chainsaw Another brute has a weird remoteeontrolled mechanical leg assembled from spare parts Another loves to jolt people with his cattle prod There are others who are living in the decaying family home (if you can call this living) plus some deceased and stuffed (amity members perpetually propped up at the dinner table The movie is a continuation of sorts of the cult classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre" which raked in lots of dough in theaters in 1974 with its bizarre horror tale There have since been two sequels but they were standard hack-and-tlash films aimed at teens The new movie gets back to the weird campy attitude of the original an Independently financed film made with a shoestring budget Things don't always mafa sense and important things go unexplained but thatk part of the nightmarish ambience in this crazed movie with crazy humor Directorwriter Kim Henkel has probably come as close as anyone could to putting a nightmare oo film only this is a nightmare we experience with our eyes open The movie starts out as yet another horror film about teens being terrorized but ends up being something else a bizarre mix ofhig- intensity terror with Colleen McDevitt (503) 220-8262 at 6657 VA Medical Center and OHSU OREGON HEAUH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY An Equal opportunity affirmative action institution I with a mechanical leg Leather face (Robert Jacks) dresses in drag and swings a vicious chainsaw WiL (Joe Stevens) is a Machi-avelli-quoting redneck who loves his cattle prod Then therek Darla (Tooie PerenskiX who is Vilmerk girlfriend who runs a real estate office up the road Aa will be clear from their names the folks in the cast aren't exactly major stars but they certainly put a lot of wild energy into their parts Renee Zellweger plays the only teen who manages to survive for long and shek great at screaming and also at energetically battling the crazies Thankftilly what with all the mayhem there is comparatively little blood and gore Obviously this isn't a movie for everyone But as chainsaw horror films go this one ranks right up there "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw rated for violence a couple seconds of nudity and the general theme is at Cascade Park Lloyd MalL 82nd Avenue and Mall 205 cinemas New Prescription for Health: Getting the Best Medical Care in a by Bernadlne Healy MJ MOVIE REVIEW The Return of the Texas Chainsaw (out of (bur) some dark and campy humor tossed in for good measure Especially impressive is the production design work that adds to the nightmarish feel of the movie The lonely farmhouse where die loony family resides is a gloomy nest of cluttered rooms filled with things we'd rather not know about The story is fairly simple It opens with (bur high school students on their prom night They take a wrong turn down a dark country road and quickly find themselves running (far their lives They have the misfortune to fall into the hands of some wildeyed loonies Vilmer (Matthew McConaughey) originally comes to help them as a tow truck driver the same general story writing and directing the new film "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Speaking by phone from his home in Texas Henkel recalled how he and Hooper had been casting about in the early 10s for an idea for what would be a low-budget independently produced film The film is fiction but the story at least partly suggested he director opted for imagination over gore former director National Institutes of Health and a leading force in the creation of the Women's Health Initiative Tuesday October 10 1995 2-00 pm Beig Swann Auditorium Portland Ait Museum Call (503) 335-2466 to reserve seats Sponsored by A meat pernmnente Center for Health Research The same true-life murder story that led to the film also was partly the inspiration for the cult horror film "The Texas Chainsaw says Kim HenkeL He ought to know since he cowrote 1974k "The Texas Chainsaw with director Tobe Hooper Their movie was the most controversial horror film of the 1970s and now Henkel has returned to explained by the infamous case of Ed Gein a Wisconsin handyman who in the 1950s killed young women and wore their skins while doing other equally horrible things In their original film Henkel and Hooper had their backwoods villains behaving in somewhat similar depraved ways Some including Henkel See Henkel Page D17 I 1 I I- i i I I i a i.