Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Jess Dunne and Luke Dunne, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.
This time, Kim Henkel’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.
Prom should be the best night of Jenny’s life. However, an unexpected detour winds up taking Jenny and three of her friends on an unexpected detour down the back roads of rural Texas. While exploring, the teens stumble upon a horror nestled snugly at the heart of the Lone Star State.
At time of recording, it was ranked 45th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the worst movies of all-time.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 22nd June 2019.
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Eric Eidelstein at Complex on the relationship between Richard Linklater and Austin, March 2016.
- Matthew McConaughey discusses Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation on The Hour, March 2011.
- Marc Savlov at The Austin Chronicle on the production and development of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, December 2018.
- The cast and crew of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation discuss the production of the film with Dread Central, December 2018.
- The cast and crew of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation discuss the release of the film with Dread Central, December 2018.
- Rachael Hauschild at Talk Film Society discusses The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, October 2018.
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- Joseph Gillings at The Washington Post on the horror genre’s anxieties over globalisation, February 2015.
- Aurora Mitchell at Vice on the fear of globalisation that permeated The X-Files, October 2016.
- Emily Todd VanDerWerff at The A.V. Club on the fear of encroaching modernity in “Home”, the fourth season episode of The X-Files, October 2010.
- Diana West at The Epoch Times on the “new world order” of George H.W. Bush, December 2018.
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- Daniel Allington and David Toube at New Statesman on the antisemitic roots of “new world order” conspiracy theories, November 2018.
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