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Brief enough (83 minutes with a slow end crawl and a meh post-credits blip) to warrant accusations of short measure, it offers a deal of explicit bloodletting but little suspense, horror or (let’s face it) point beyond keeping someone’s IP active. It was directed by David Blue Garcia (who replaced Ryan and Andy Tohill a week into production), from a script by Chris Thomas Devlin based on a story by Evil Dead remake/Don’t Breathe team Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues. Like Leatherface, this was made in Bulgaria with all the Texan flavour you’d expect from faking it in another country. A good reason for this is that none of the sequels to date are films anyone would want to make a follow-up to – and this one doesn’t do anything to go against that tradition. It’s one of those pretend-all-films-since-the-original-don’t-exist sequels we’ve seen a lot of lately … though, so far as I can tell, everything since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 has taken that approach (with the exception of Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning, a prequel to the remake, and the possibility that Leatherface is a prequel to Texas Chainsaw). This is an entry in a franchise that has already yielded films called The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1973), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and Texas Chainsaw (aka Texas Chainsaw 3D) – and really doesn’t need to have Texas Chainsaw Massacre added to the mess of the filmography. Obviously, the system of titling for sequels is broken. My notes on Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2021)