The idea for the movie came to Hooper during a crowded holiday season. The universal fears that make horror our tropiest genre Confession: There’s no way I’d survive a horror movie “What do you do? Horror films is about it.” But with no money, no cast, and only one other unsuccessful movie behind him, an art-house project that mainly attracted the hippies who’d later become Leatherface’s targets, the director didn’t have many options. It’s hard to understate the impact of Hooper’s original - on the 29-year old director, the city of Austin, Texas, the possibilities of the horror genre, and moviemaking in general.Īs Hooper told Texas Monthly in 2004, he didn’t originally want to make a horror movie. If anything, the timing does seem right for Leatherface to wreak havoc yet again. Stranger Chainsaw Massacre? Yana Blajeva / Legendary, Courtesy of Netflixīut it’s unfair to judge a movie from one still image. New pictures are also up of the cast, which, as has been noted on Twitter, do bear a striking resemblance to Stranger Things. What has Leatherface, the franchise’s chainsaw-swinging murderer, been doing all this time when we see him in Texas Chainsaw Massacre? He’s “been in hiding for a long, long time, trying to be a good person,” according to Álvarez, until newcomers to his small town “awaken the giant.” Leatherface’s good deeds between murder sprees remain to be seen. I think it’s up to you to decide when and how the events of the other movies happen.”Ĭontinuity with a nearly 50-year old movie can be challenging enough. I love a lot of things about that movie - it’s so wacky and of its time. “When movies do that, sometimes it feels a bit disrespectful to all the other films. “When I say ‘direct sequel’ I wouldn’t say it skips everything,” the director of the 2013 Evil Dead reboot, says. If that sounds confusing, producer Fede Álvarez’s breaks it down in a new interview in Entertainment Weekly. The new movie, which differentiates from Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original by dropping that film’s “ The” and connecting the “ Chainsaw” is meant to be a direct sequel of that original, while not entirely dropping the continuity of the original’s sequels. A sequel-ish, reboot-like continuation of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is coming to Netflix on Feb.
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