10 Horror Movie Sequels That Took Risks... And Failed

The Rotten Tomatoes critics' consensus for this infamously bad legacy sequel reads as follows: "As an ugly and cynical attempt to rebrand Leatherface as horror anti-hero, Texas Chainsaw 3D is a bold move for the franchise."

It's faint praise, but there it is. It was an undeniably risky move to make Leatherface (played here by Dan Yeager) an antihero and have him team up with protagonist Heather (Alexandra Daddario) at the end, and in a franchise that has generally just remixed the 1974 original over and over again, Texas Chainsaw 3D does perhaps deserve some praise for being possibly the bravest sequel in this largely godawful franchise. 

Having said this, that mustn't be misread as a recommendation. Once again, as well as being a bad movie all-around, Texas Chainsaw 3D subverts expectations in a way that is maddeningly illogical. The movie frames Leatherface as an antihero when he's killed many innocent people throughout the films, and it positions the police department of Leatherface's hometown as the bad guys for killing Leatherface's family... who were, you know, a bunch of cannibalistic serial killers.

Things get intolerably dumb when Heather, who turns out to be Leatherface's cousin, teams up with him and later decides to stay with him, despite the fact that he violently killed her friends and tried to kill her multiple times. Add in the generally poor writing and over-abundance of plot holes and you've got one of the stupidest horror sequels ever created, audacity be damned.