Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

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Director: Jeff Burr Year: 1990 Runtime: 85 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.0
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Synopsis

Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road where they are stalked by the menacing Leatherface and his family.

In 1990, 17 years after Leatherface's killing spree in 1973 and 13 years after the sole survivor Sally Hardesty died in a private health care facility in 1977, Leatherface kills a young woman, Gina, and cuts off her face to make it into a mask while Gina's sister, Sara, watches from a nearby window. Sometime later, a couple traveling through Texas, Michelle and Ryan, reach the Last Chance Gas Station, where they meet a hitchhiker named Tex and the station's owner Alfredo. A fight soon breaks out between Tex and Alfredo when Tex finds Alfredo spying on Michelle as she uses the station restroom. Alfredo becomes defensive, and as Michelle and Ryan flee in their car, they witness Alfredo apparently killing Tex with a shotgun. When Ryan and Michelle become lost, the driver of a large truck throws a dead coyote at their windshield. As Ryan changes the flat tire on the car, Leatherface appears and ambushes them, but they manage to drive off unscathed. Afterward, Michelle, Ryan, and another driver, a survivalist named Benny, crash when a bloodied Tex leaps in front of the car. Michelle, Ryan, and Benny decide to find Tex. On the way, Benny discovers a hook-handed man named Tinker, who offers his assistance in setting down road flares. Benny soon realizes Tinker's real intentions after he finds a damaged chainsaw in the back of his truck. He flees and encounters Leatherface, but is saved by Sara, who had earlier escaped Leatherface. Benny learns that Sara's entire family was killed, and that Leatherface and his family are watching the roads. Benny hears Michelle and Ryan calling for him and leaves Sara; Leatherface kills her with his chainsaw a short time later. Leatherface then attacks Michelle and Ryan, capturing the latter when he gets caught in a bear trap. Escaping, Michelle locates a house and is captured by Tex, revealed to be one of the Sawyers, who brings her into the kitchen and introduces her to the already deceased and decomposed "Grandpa", as well as Anne and the Little Girl. Tinker then drags in the badly injured Ryan, whom he and Tex suspend upside-down with a pair of meat hooks. When Leatherface returns home, Tex equips him with a large chromed chainsaw with the words "The Saw is Family" engraved on it. In the woods, Benny finds Alfredo and apparently kills him. As the family prepares for dinner in the kitchen, the Little Girl kills Ryan. Leatherface prepares to kill Michelle as well, but Benny opens fire on the house with a semi-automatic rifle, killing Anne and presumably Tinker. Michelle escapes and flees to the woods, pursued by Leatherface, while Benny kills Tex. Benny rushes to Michelle's aid, but Leatherface apparently kills him. In revenge, Michelle apparently kills Leatherface. As dawn breaks, Michelle reaches the main road, before Alfredo's pickup truck, driven by a surviving Benny, stops in front of her. As Benny helps her into the truck, Alfredo appears and attacks him. Benny avoids Alfredo's attacks, and Michelle kills Alfredo with a shotgun blast to the chest before the pair drives away, unaware that a surviving Leatherface is revving his chainsaw some distance away.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

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a dog dies
spoiler There is no dog in the movie.
someone is sexually assaulted
spoiler michelle gets sexually harassed a lot throughout the movie. the cannibals also threaten to have leatherface forcibly impregnate her, but she escapes before that can happen
someone gets gaslighted
Yes
someone is stalked
Yes
an animal dies
spoiler Armadillo. We also see the body of a deer.
there's a dead animal
spoiler An armadillo, deer, coyote.
animals are abused
spoiler An armadillo is killed with a rock, but to put it out of its misery
there's finger/toe mutilation
spoiler no but there IS palm mutilation.
hands are damaged
Yes
someone is held under water
Yes
someone is restrained
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
Yes
someone disabled played by able-bodied
spoiler Leatherface has both a mental and physical disability that the actor does not, and Mama is in a wheelchair, her actress did not use one.
a parent dies
Yes
a family member dies
Yes
someone is kidnapped
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
there are razors
spoiler there is an extreme close up on a razorblade slicing flesh in the introduction scene
there are clowns
spoiler Only a really pixelated image of a clown.
there's natural bodies of water
Yes
someone vomits
spoiler in the beginning after the suited man puts the head from the corpse down he says he's going to v* and his coworker says to do it elsewhere. it doesn't happen.
There's audio gore
Yes
there's spitting
spoiler Spit
heads get squashed
Yes
there's misophonia
Yes
a mentally ill person is violent
Yes
someone suffers from PTSD
Yes
someone has a mental illness
Yes
there are hangings
spoiler Not in the traditional sense, but a character is hung upside down.
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
somebody is choked
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler not many in the major sense, but slow blinkers close to the screen, excessively bright lights, and flashing IS present. no strobing.
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
shaky cam is used
Yes
there's screaming
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
spoiler one of the main characters is watched through a wall hole while using the restroom. 17:32 - 17:51 and again 18:38 - 18:47, there is a jumpscare at 18:47 as well when the watcher is caught.
there's ableist language or behavior
spoiler The cannibals imply black people taste better. Leatherface has a learning disorder that is mocked by one character.
there are "Man in a dress" jokes
Yes
someone speaks hate speech
Yes
the black guy dies first
spoiler He survives in the regular, original ending but dies in the alternate ending.
there are incestuous relationships
spoiler Heavily implied
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
sexual assault is mentioned
Yes
a car crashes
Yes
a person is hit by a car
Yes
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
Yes
someone drowns
Yes
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's torture
Yes
someone is burned alive
Yes
there's cannibalism
spoiler Not graphically shown, but heavily implied as in the other films. Leatherface repeatedly refers to humans as food and characters are given cups of blood to drink.
there's shaving/cutting
Yes
someone is stabbed
Yes
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes

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