Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) KILL COUNT

[Music] welcome to the killcount where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies I'm James Agee nice and today we're looking at leather face no not the 2017 prequel this one is Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 and came out in 1990 TCM 3 is possibly the most forgettable entry in the series despite featuring horror legend Ken Foree and professional hobbit bodyguard Viggo Mortensen this threequel pretty much ignores the continuity established in the first two films although Leatherface returns now played by a new actor ra Mihaylov the other Sawyer's we see our total goddamn strangers there's all of a sudden a mom a trio of new brothers and a little girl running around who's apparently meant to be Leatherface his daughter that's messed up on a number of levels Texas Chainsaw 3 was meant to be a back-to-basics horror film in contrast to the zany dark comedy that was part 2 it was the first of the series to have a decently big studio behind it with New Line Cinema but that also leaves it feeling a bit more commercial to me as opposed to the gritty homemade feel of the first two chainsaw films it doesn't help that it's so censor when the MPAA threatened this one with an X rating just like they did for part two the producers made director Jeff burger cut the movie down so we could better make back its budget that's a damn shame when you've got makeup by Greg Nicotero who's done everything from The Walking Dead to Casino Royale what's left in the film is mostly boring characters running around in the woods at night mixed with some of the same shit we already saw in the first two movies it's not the worst thing I've ever seen but man does it fail to leave an impression how many kills will this all-new Sawyer family deliver on their hand-me-down dinner plates let's find out and get to them [Music] the movie begins as this tradition by now with the title crawl talking about the events of the first film but now mentioning that Sally Hardesty died in 1977 don't take that to heart though cuz it won't still be true by the end of the next movie we get our first kill right off the bat when we see a girl named Gina screaming in slow motion before she gets hit in the face by a title car her a sledgehammer she was in the face of the sledgehammer and it left a nasty hole in her head Gina's sister Sara watches from outside a window as Leatherface works at his crafts table busy as a bee making another human face mask maybe he's just been misinterpreting a skincare routine that's all when Sara makes a noise Leatherface hears it and sets out on a hunt with a reference to the first film sometime later an ill-fated couple is driving through Texas with their relationship on its last few final girl Michelle is getting ready to travel abroad by herself meaning she's about to break up with her boyfriend Ryan who's played by William Butler last seen on the kill count way back in Friday the 13th part 7 when Kane Hodder Jason killed them with a tent spike to the back good times they spend the day driving on the shoulder of the road and drinking old cans of Pepsi and when night comes they're stopped by a police blockade at a crime scene oh hey it looks like stretch managed to become a real reporter after all judging by this blink and you miss it cameo from Caroline Williams we love you stretch come back the crime scene consists of waterlogged corpses that the police take pictures of giving us that flashbulb sound effect from the original judging by all the bodies we see this area has been Sawyer 5 so a cop tells Michelle and Ryan that they better not stop for nothing or nobody but after driving straight through the night they've got as much gas in their tank as they do longevity in their relationship so they have no choice but to stop at the last chance gas station as Ryan goes to the bathroom Michelle gets her picture taken by gas station employee Alfredo who tries to push the photo on her for five bucks which yes is exactly what the hitchhiker did back in the first movie Michelle declines the offer sending Alfredo into a mutter II rant full of sexual harassment you know Hackett you like me don't you Michelle does not like Alfredo she's more of a pesto kind of gal but she's saved from this uncomfortable encounter by text a hitchhiker played by Viggo Mortensen who somehow manages to be charming while talking about some roadkill that Michelle had caused earlier your lasting so4 ended and that happy man Ryan gets back from the bathroom and feels appropriately threatened by Viggo and his dirty cowboy getup yes sorry pal but your girl looks like she wants to be the next Arwen but first she has to go use the bathroom and while she does pervy Alfredo spies on her through a hole in the wall once again her virtue was saved by taks who stops Alfredo by throwing him out of his own establishment you should to fuck up a friend she might break Alfredo boils over and grabs a shotgun that he uses to chase the kids out of his station as they drive away he shoots out their back window and then they see him shoot at taks fuck did you say dusted dust is not a thing yo quit acting like dusted the thing they turned down a road that text had told them about earlier maybe it was in the green book or something and start looking for a town with some law enforcement that can help that but by time night comes they're still driving with no civilization in sight real my shop there by the way good work director Jeff Berg who actually got this movie kind of by default after it was offered to and turned down by seemingly every other director in Hollywood including Peter Jackson this souped up pickup truck also wants to do some dusk driving so it takes off from the last chance gas station while Alfredo cheers it on with gunfire the truck catches up to the kids and it's leather adorned hood confuses the acting out of Ryan they want to throw animals at your windshield son which they do causing Michele and Ryan to drive off the road and pop a tire while Ryan tries to fix it a squeaking sound informs them that somebody else is nearby wonder who it could be it's Leatherface in this movie he's sporting that leg brace and a brand new mask but I actually kind of dig this grungier makeover they managed to hit leather face with her car and get away but shortly down the road they wind up in the most poorly edited car crash sequence I've ever seen when they apparently run into Kent forays character Benny after an insane booking text jumps out into the road oh wait what were those cars even on the same Road we literally never saw them together in the same shot not once I think we just got bamboozled both cars are completely totaled but lucky for Michelle and Ryan Benny happens to be a survivalist who's more than prepared to help them through the rest of this movie Ryan tries to tell him about the chainsaw attack but Benny chalks the claim up to shock and sarcastically dismisses it militant Lumberjacks I see him all the time then he gives them some moon drugs which both of them take without question great survival instincts they're idiots Benny ends up buying their chainsaw story after getting a look at their car but by that point the painkillers are kicking in and causing Michelle and Ryan to star feel a little woozy there man Benny leaves his new passed-out friends to return to the crash site where he finds a dude sport and road flares in a hook for a hand looks like you had a little mishap huh I wonder if this guy's a saw I hope yep definitely a Sawyer Benny asks this dude named Tinker for some help but after noticing that jinx got a chainsaw in the back of his truck he very smartly it runs back to his Jeep to get a gun he takes too long loading it though causing tink to grow suspicious and drive at him in another pretty cool shot he just barely misses Benny he but lucky for Tinker Leatherface is here to pick up the slack he might have killed Benny too with his little Texas bone saw if it wasn't for that Sarah chick from the beginning randomly yelling out and distracting Leatherface away Sarah runs around giggling through the woods before doubling back to Benny who asks a very pertinent question who the hell are you she says that she's a survivor from a previous attack by the Sawyer's but don't get too attached to her she's really only here to add to the kills back near the crash site Ryan and cam wake up from their drug nap and recite some epically bad like high school play quality lines got new sunrise they head into the woods and call out Benny's name causing Benny to leave Sarah firm oh so he can go find them hope she's enjoying that final cigarette cuz he'll come Leatherface he knows why Sarah's in this movie so he makes his offering to the killcount gods by taking his chainsaw and cutting into her torso with it damn what an unnecessary character and while there's a decent amount of blood spray going on this kill like all the others was some nearly cut down originally Sarah was supposed to get cut in high up after what feels like hours of the characters just walking through the woods Leatherface finds michelle and ryan and while trying to escape him ryan gets caught in a bear trap michelle tries to help him to no avail and as she's running away to save herself Leatherface catches up to Ryan and introduces him to his chainsaw Michelle comes across a house and we all know who's gonna be inside a bunch of cannibalistic murder oh hey it's a little girl that's different this little girl who Michelle follows upstairs is played by Jennifer Benko who just like William Butler was also on Friday of the 13th part 7 where she played the younger version of Tina the Carrie ripoff remember she actually kicked off that kill count when she accidentally killed her dad in this movie her character's purposely violent and also an aspiring ventriloquist yep turns out she's a nasty evil Sawyer just like tax yeah we all knew that was coming stridor never was good and lying about his identity texe nails Michelle's hands into a chair so this movie can try to have its own dinner scene they've even got the corpse of grandpa to join that I mean they gotta have to it's tradition and grandpa is the best at killing but there's also a new type of character to this movie Sawyer family I mean besides a little girl it's a motherly figure mama Ann was confined to a wheelchair and speaks through a voice box tinker gets home with Ryan's body which he and his brother Tex hang up in a manner referencing an infamous crime scene photo of Ed Gein victim Bernice worden while Ryan's hanging out we get some Sawyer family character development looks like Tex has a nasty temper if he's called by his real name Eddie and tinker is apparently the brains of this operation who's obsessed with modern technology also tinkers played by Joe Unger who was one of John Saxton sheriffs in the original Nightmare on Elm Street he was the one Nancy yelled at when she came to the station to check on Roth they realized that Ryan is still alive which should have been clear to anyone paying attention to the kill cow and then they tell Leatherface called jr. in this movie that they have a gift for it and why holy goddamn it's a fucking golden chainsaw with a Drayton Sawyer quote engraved on it no less I've heard that the idea for this came from Bob Shaye the executive a newline who was all over the nightmare series and who even cameo as himself in the meta nightmare kids love horror gotta hand it to him that thing is the coolest damn killing machine I have ever seen it's almost as cool as the one my youtube managers made in sent me for getting two million subscribers thanks you all you the best during all this Alfredo the other brother has been disposing of bodies in a swamp while Benny watches from afar because the Ben stirs trained as a survivalist he's able to sneak up behind Alfredo and stick a gun in his face although it doesn't seem to faze the little noodley Sawyer you're hanging out you maybe not Fredo but that doesn't mean you can just spit in the dudes face Benny knocks Alfredo into the body disposal swamp and considers it a job well done what that don't be so sure Benny do you see any kill graphics on the screen yeah I didn't think so Benny sneaks his way to the house where he looks into a window and sees Leatherface working on his education his lessons come from a computer that asks him to identify objects such as a clown but poor little junior here only knows people as food and he just can't come up with any alternate answers it's pretty funny kind of adorable and maybe my favorite moment in the movie Leatherface eventually gives up and returns to the kitchen with the rest of his family unlike Drayton and the twins these Sawyer's are pretty supportive of each other and are downright affectionate when it comes to pivotal moments like the little girl's first kill she uses a contraption that tinker's rigged up to automate the killing process and with it she kills Ryan by dropping a sledgehammer into his head from above it's another kill that was severely cut for sensors although we do get to see the little girl collecting Ryan's blood for some grandpa you did such a good job with that kill little girl you just earned yourself a Leatherface kit wow this is the scene where we get a clue into the little girl's identity when Tex threatens Michele with rape from Leatherface you just make squeezed damn babies you again that is all sorts of fucked up since what the little girl is apparently Leatherface his daughter begotten from another victims raped hey Texas Chain Saw series you don't need that additional depravity man the Sawyer's already eat people that's bad enough Leatherface revs up his coolest kill award and the noise gets Benny's attention so he decides to openly fire into the house cuz like screw Michele safety right various injuries are sustained including fingers and ears being blown off and during the mayhem the shell manages to tear herself free and run out of the house Leatherface chases after her which is apparently enough to finally evoke some personality out of this final girl you know where was this energy the first hour of the movie when your character was putting me to sleep inside the house a terminal ting tells tats to go get that meat before he and mama Sawyer apparently die mom was an easy one to add to the cows and she did get shot a whole bunch by Betty but even though tinker appeared to only lose some non vital appendages we never see him again so fuckin outside Tex winds up in a fight with Betty we'll miss him with an axe swing and tears open a tank of gasoline instead Tex ends up getting covered in that gasoline so although he's got the little girl cheering him on from the window he's no match for the power of fire that Bennie tosses his way Tex goes up in flames for a pretty decent fire stunt and runs around looking like goddamn Denethor while Bennie stumbles away like a clumsy action movie hero guys I knew I shouldn't have bet two hundo on tech in the woods the shell is still being chased by Leatherface and almost gets killed by him before Bennie shows up and tackles him into a swathe they fight for a while while the still running chainsaw sticks out above the surface much like it did in the xcalibur inspired trailer for this movie Tim if only the film could have lived up to that commercial Leatherface wins the showdown in the bayou by pushing Benny into the chain saws whirring blade with her champion vanquish Michelle goes to leave only for a waterlogged Leatherface to jump out and stop her but she's totally snapped by now and just beats that boy with a rock until he sinks down below the surface morning comes and Michelle makes it out to a row no sooner has she sit on that monster truck tire bus stop bench that the Sawyer's truck drives up to her with Benny behind the wheel originally Benny was killed in the swamp but they redid the ending after they found that test audiences really liked his character no shit they liked him it's Ken freakin for a the two of them hug in that's nice but then Benny gets knocked the fuck out by that mofo Alfredo oh wait I'm sorry what did you say once again I didn't catch that but we can just move on he attacks the truck with a sledgehammer but Michelle grabs the shotgun in the cab and points it at him through the back he Gamble's that she doesn't know how to use the gun but she proves them wrong and shoots him dead whatever you want to say about him you can't call him a chicken man Alfredo the movie ends with Michelle and Betty driving away in the truck while the still-living Leatherface walks into frame and watches them go come back soon how many people were killed by Texas fellowship of the song let's find out at the numbers by my count seven people died in Leatherface TCM three even if again not all of them were confirmed the victims included four men and three women giving us a more even pie chart than usual and with the wrong time of maybe five minutes that left us with a kill on average every 12.1 four minutes I'll give the golden chainsaw to leather faces golden chainsaw it's not a kill hand come to think of it he never even uses it to successfully kill anyone but most of these deaths are to cut down to be Award winners and this thing is literally a golden chain saw what the fuck do you want me to do dole machete for lamest kill we'll go to Gina who was hit in the head just off screen with a sledgehammer been there and seen that and that's it Leatherface Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 came out in 1990 and was the only installment of the series released by New Line Cinema they're probably glad they don't have their name on part 4 because the next generation is a mess we'll look at that next week but until then I'm James a Jenice this has been the cocao thanks a lot for watching this week's kill guy I want to thank some patrons like David Fonseca miss eggy Gary story and Dylan Fletcher although this movie wasn't anything special it's way better than the next generation next weekend I'll be at Texas fry mare so if you're going let me know I definitely want to meet as many fans as possible I'm also excited to see and hang out with my mods see y'all there thanks everybody be good people

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Length: 16min 45sec (1005 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 26 2019