All American Massacre is an unreleased spinoff in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was a game-changing horror movie in the '70s, and it regularly tops lists of the greatest horror movies ever made. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's disturbing, visceral quality has rarely been bettered, but the issue with being one of the best movies of its kind is that it makes it nearly impossible for sequels to match it. Hooper's belated sequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 wisely decided to switch genres into pitch-black comedy, but even now, opinion on the follow-up is divided.

Many of the later entries in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie franchise have disappointed viewers. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation - which is notable for being Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey's first lead roles in a movie - is easily the worst, though 2013's Texas Chainsaw 3D isn't far behind. The most successful entry of the last two decades was 2003's remake of the original, but the franchise's obsession with reboots and prequels has seen the timeline become increasingly convoluted and hard to follow.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 has amassed a healthy cult afterlife and also introduced fan-favorite Chop Top. Played by The Devil's Rejects star Bill Moseley, Chop Top was the twin brother of the original movie's Hitchhiker and has a metal plate in his head following a machete attack in Vietnam. Chop Top stole the show, but following his apparent demise in the sequel's finale, has never appeared in later Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. That almost changed with All American Massacre, a spinoff that revealed Chop Top survived and sees him recount the origins of the Sawyer clan's descent into cannibalism to a tabloid journalist while in prison.

Chop Top recounting his story would then lead to flashbacks of his younger days, including an appearance by Leatherface himself (played by musician Buckethead). All American Massacre was apparently conceived of as a 25th-anniversary project to celebrate the release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with the short being directed by Tobe Hooper's son William Tony Hooper. This unreleased Texas Chainsaw Massacre spinoff also had no direct ties to the third and fourth Texas Chainsaw Massacre films - or their weird timelines - and during production, it grew from a planned 10 minute short to one that ran for an hour.

Only a handful of clips from All American Massacre have made their way online, and it's become something of an urban legend in fan circles. The exact reason this Texas Chainsaw Massacre spinoff has gone unreleased isn't entirely clear, though several reasons have been cited. The first is that the production was unofficial and it didn't have the rights to use characters like Leatherface; in fact, Chop Top was renamed "Bloody Bobby" for this reason. Another is that Hooper simply ran out of funds to finish All American Massacre, and in 2011 he launched an unsuccessful Kickstarter hoping to raise money to complete it. Hopefully, All American Massacre will see the light of day eventually, though over 20 years on, it seems it might remain unreleased.

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