If you hate animal cruelty don't watch this movie

As a horror movie it doesn't bring anything new to the table.

The cut I saw (HBO MAX) lasts only 78-80 minutes.

As a Texas Chainsaw movie, it is probably the most unmemorable of the bunch.

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The worst aspect of it, for me, is a totally unnecessary scene in the first half hour when the two leads hit an armadillo with their car, and then they decide to put it out of its misery with a rock.

It was an infuriating, sad, horrible thing to add. It doesn't add anything to the story.

What was the writer thinking when he added that scene to the script? To show us that the female lead is able to (and in the ending she will) use a rock as a weapon?

Such trash belongs in a mondo film like Last Cannibal World, not a Texas Chainsaw movie, Schow's pandering to the fanbase was totally misplaced.