10 Terrible Horror Movies (You Couldn't Stop Thinking About)

Just when you thought the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise couldn't sink any lower, 2022's ninth movie attempted to pull a Halloween 2018 by fashioning itself as a direct sequel to the original 1974 film - and failed oh-so-spectacularly.

What's most immediately striking about this film is just how weirdly angry it appears to be with Gen Z, with its young central characters awkwardly depicted as a troupe of obnoxious gentrifiers who are ripe for Leatherface's (Mark Burnham) chainsaw.

Hilariously, there's even a scene where a bus-load of people try to "cancel" Leatherface mid-massacre, only for him to slaughter the lot.

And this doesn't even touch the film's entire "legacy sequel" shtick, where original heroine Sally Hardesty (played now by Olwen Fouéré) is brought back into the fold and presented as a badass Texas Ranger who has been waiting a half-century to do battle with her attacker once again.

Even were any of this convincing at all, it pays off with Sally ultimately being killed by Leatherface, and the film's only notable survivor being a school shooting survivor who is re-traumatised at film's end when her sister is decapitated in front of her.

Texas Chainsaw 2022 isn't good by any stretch, but its commitment to being as mean-spirited as possible does nevertheless make it tough to entirely shake.