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The angry rejection of Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Next Generation is I think fashionable rather than through considering artistic merit.
Perhaps it is something to do with the familiar plotting - though this did not affect Evil Dead 2, possibly because it was made only a few years after the original.
Genre fans would treat now A-list actors Matthew McConaughey and Rene Zellwegger with disdain.
But why allow Scream and its sequels their success when another post-modern horror of around the same time offers decent acting, nastiness and gore but without such grating self-referential celebrations?
I think the contempt towards this film would be better aimed at the likes of Freddy and Michael sequels, since it is at least an honest adult re-telling by the original author and not a bland cash-in aimed at kids giving them just what they expect.
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