With the debut of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 1974, Tobe Hooper launched a legendary slasher/horror franchise. The picture, which was made on a shoestring budget, went on to become a huge hit, spawning a slew of sequels, prequels, and reboots.
The horrific cannibal family from whom the legendary adversary Leatherface hails has been depicted in the film with gruesome visuals of deaths and butcherings. This franchise is now regarded as the peak of the slasher horror genre, with a devoted fan base eagerly anticipating a new installment since the last film was released in 2017.
There are eight films in the Leatherface franchise, all of them revolve around the homicidal acts of the chainsaw-wielding cannibal Leatherface. He is one of the most well-known horror antagonists, with the chainsaw as his trademark and a horrific face mask made of human skin that adds to his ruthlessness. Leatherface is a member of a cannibalistic family who values homicidal killing over being a doctor or a CEO. In the movies, he slaughters the cast, impaling them with meat hooks, and smashing them with sledgehammers while his family cheers him on.
Leatherface was originally a member of the Sawyer family of killers, but reboots have changed his origins to make him a member of the Hewitt family. However, the franchise has returned to its roots since 2013, illustrating the Sawyers’ infamous past.
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Who will survive and what will be left of them? – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
The first movie from the franchise hit the screens in 1974 and introduced Leatherface to us for the very first time. It opens with the radio broadcast of several grave robbings. Sally Hardesty, her brother Franklin, her best friend Pam, her boyfriend Jerry, and Pam’s boyfriend Kirk visit the now-robbed grave of Sally and Franklin’s grandfather while on their way to a homestead in Texas.
An eerie hitchhiker runs into the group and they pick him up. The guy turns out to be quite creepy as he keeps talking about his family having a slaughterhouse and goes on to cut himself. He takes a Polaroid of Franklin and asks for money for the picture. He then cuts Franklin with the razor when they refuse to pay for it.
The group shoves him out of the car and goes to the gas station where the proprietor tells them that their tanks were empty. They somehow manage to reach a plantation mansion. Pam and Kirk find their way into another house. Kirk explores it while Pam waits for him outside. In a room, Kirk bumps into Leatherface – a man donning a mask made of human skin, which was originally three masks during the shooting of the movie. He murders Kirk with a sledgehammer and then, after Pam enters the house to find Kirk, Leatherface hangs her on a hook. She is forced to witness the gruesome scene of Leatherface slicing Kirk with his chainsaw.
Jerry sets off to find a missing Pam and Kirk and enters the abandoned house. He finds Pam locked in a freezer and is subsequently killed by Leatherface’s sledgehammer. He sneaks up on Sally and Franklin in the forest while it is dark and uses the chainsaw to kill a wheelchair-bound Franklin. Sally escapes and Leatherface follows in pursuit.
Sally finds the house where her friends had wandered into and run inside. On reaching upstairs, she is greeted by the remains of an elderly couple where the woman was mummified and the man, barely alive. Leatherface catches up with her and attacks her but she escapes via the windows. She then reaches the gas station where the proprietor beats her up with a broom. She is tied up and he drives her back to the crazy house.
At the dinner table, a tied-up Sally learns that Leatherface, the proprietor, and the hitchhiker are a family of cannibals. They torment her and try to make the barely alive man, who is the Grandpa of the family, kill her with the sledgehammer. He fails due to being frail and Sally escapes again, jumping through the window. She runs to the road while being pursued but a truck runs over the hitchhiker. Leatherface, enraged, attacks the truck while the man driving it helps Sally into the truck. With a wrench, he hits Leatherface, who drops his chainsaw and accidentally amputates his own leg. In the end, Sally has driven away and she laughs hysterically at a flustered Leatherface who is seen swinging his chainsaw.
The perfect slasher movie, 1974’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre is renowned in the world of horror. The scene where Sally is being chased by Leatherface and his chainsaw is one of the most iconic scenes in Hollywood cinema. Despite being a fantastic film, the real horror was the conditions under which the actors worked. Gunner Hansen (Leatherface), cut Marilyn Burns’ (Sally) finger in a scene to get it over with after several failed takes and no rest. Quite in character. Even the narrator, John Laroquette, received just a marijuana joint as his payment.
After a decade of silence… The buzz is back! – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
The 1986 sequel introduces two high school students Buzz and Rick as they race on the Texas highway. They get drunk on their way to Dallas for the Texas-OU Football game and harass an on-air radio jockey called DJ Vanita ‘Stretch’ Brock. Leatherface appears in front of the boys from the back of his truck and attacked them with his chainsaw while they were communicating with Stretch. Despite their efforts, Leatherface kills Buzz. The car crashes and Rick dies as well.
Lieutenant Boude ‘Lefty’ Enright, the uncle of Sally and Franklin Hardesty, investigates the murder. He had taken an interest in the mysterious chainsaw killings due to the disappearance of Sally and Franklin thirteen years ago. He gets the local newspapers to print a tiny article about this, which garners the attention of Stretch. He initially sends her away after she brings him a copy of the audiotape from the attack so she airs the Chili Cookoff in Texas/Oklahoma instead. The winner, Drayton Sawyer, unfortunately, happens to be the patriarch of the cannibalistic family from the first movie. Later, Lefty gets her to play the audio from their on-air conversation on her show where the attack was recorded to get the attention of the law enforcers.
Leatherface’s family arrive at Stretch’s radio station on hearing the broadcast of the attack. Stretch bumps into Chop Top (the twin of the Hitchhiker from the 1974 film). While trying to get rid of him, Leatherface appears as well. Stretch’s co-worker LG enters the scene but Chop Top beats him up. Leatherface almost attacks Stretch but she smoothly talks her way out of the situation. After a while, Leatherface leaves the studio in tatters with his chainsaw and makes Chop Top think that he killed Stretch.
They take LG to their place while Stretch is trapped in an abandoned bone-infested carnival ground that was home to the cannibalistic family, the Sawyers. An enraged Lefty arrives with three chainsaws and carves up the place, finding the remains of Franklin Hardesty. Stretch finds a dead LG (killed by Chop Top) and takes a look when Drayton Sawyer captures her. He tortures her at the dinner table but Lefty saves her by slashing his back with a chainsaw as Drayton bribes Lefty with money. Lefty and Leatherface get into a chainsaw duel and he impales Leatherface in the stomach. Later, a grenade recovered from the Hitchhiker’s corpse goes off, killing Drayton, Leatherface, and their Grandpa.
Stretch and Chop Top fight in a rock tower that overlooks the Sawyer family’s property. Stretch gets slashed with a razor quite a few times and uses a chainsaw procured from the Sawyer grandmother’s mummy. She chops Chop Top and he presumably dies after falling off the tower. The movie finally ends with Stretch celebrating with the chainsaw in her hand.
The sequel was supposed to feature an entire town of cannibals, as per the plans of Tobe Hooper and the co-writer of the 1974 movie, Kim Henkel. The movie is a great sequel to its predecessor and many consider it one of the best movies from the franchise, even though its predecessor sits atop the throne for most fans.
There’s Roadkill All Over Texas – Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
Sally Hardesty, whose whereabouts were unknown despite having survived the massacre in 1974, died of catatonia in 1977. Meanwhile, W.E. Sawyer (a member of the cannibalistic family) was executed following a trial in 1981 but Leatherface was never taken into custody. He was still at large and continued with his chainsaw killings. Chop Top was locked in an asylum.
Ryan and Michelle are a couple traveling to Florida from California. They intend to return a borrowed car but have to stop at an interstate checkpoint after a mass grave of almost 70 bodies was created by throwing all the corpses in one big hole. The couple then travels some more and stops at Alfredo Sawyer’s service station. As Tex Sawyer arrives, he catches Alfredo spying on Michelle while she uses the washroom. A fight breaks out between the two Sawyers and Alfredo shoots Tex with a shotgun. The couple flees but loses their way as Ryan follows the directions given by Tex.
A member, Tinker Sawyer, uses his four-wheeler to track a couple of their road. Ryan goes out to fix his tire when Leatherface ambushes them. However, they manage to escape unscathed but get hit by another car as Tex Sawyer reappears. A hunter named Benny comes out of the other car and he helps them out, confessing that he was out for revenge against the Sawyers for killing his friends. Benny treats them and finds Tinker who tries to run him over. He then jumps away and falls down a hill where Tinker offers him his help. Benny flees after realizing his true intentions and comes across Leatherface. The two fight and Benny are saved by a young girl, who was part of a group killed by the family.
Benny goes back to Michelle and Ryan but Sara, who is subsequently left, ends up dying after Leatherface attacks her. He then captures Michelle and Ryan after Ryan gets caught in a bear trap. As Michelle tries to escape, she finds a house. However, Tex captures her and takes her to the house. She is introduced to Grandpa, who is now dead and decomposing.
Tex and Tinker suspend Ryan upside down using meat hooks. Leatherface, equipped with a large, golden, chainsaw, enters the scene.
Benny kills Alfredo Sawyer in the woods while Ryan is killed by a little girl. Benny uses an automatic rifle to open fire on the house and Michelle is saved. Leatherface’s mother Anne Sawyer and Tinker pass away as a result while Michelle escapes. Benny kills Tex and rushes to help Michelle but is killed by Leatherface. Following this, Michelle presumably kills Leatherface as she knocks him out with a rock and he sinks into the swamp.
Michelle reaches the main road at dawn. She finds Benny, who has survived and is now driving Alfredo’s pickup truck. He picks her up but Alfredo suddenly appears, attacking them. Benny manages to avoid the attacks while Michelle kills the cannibal with a shotgun. However, Leatherface has managed to survive and revs his chainsaw, which Michelle and Benny remain unaware of as they drive away.
Things get a little more confusing as more and more Sawyers are introduced to the plot, but it only makes it all the more exciting as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre-verse expands. The film was originally supposed to be much more violent and gory, with scenes of a nude man being split in half but was unfortunately reconsidered after the producers objected to it. The movie was also submitted to the MPAA around 11 times but each submission resulted in the omission of more and more footage.
If it’s terror what you want, it’s terror what you’ll have – Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995)
For five years, there have been no massacres. Texas has been fairly silent, until Jenny and her friends Barry, Heather, and Sean go to prom. Heather is unable to find her boyfriend Barry at the party until she catches him cheating. She storms out and Barry follows closely behind. Meanwhile, Jenny and Sean are smoking weed in the backseat of the car. Heather drives angrily with everyone in the car when she collides with a motorcycle. The motorist passes out and everyone leaves Sean inside to look for help.
They go to an insurance office and ask a worker, Darla, for help. She contacts her boyfriend Vilmer Sawyer to go to the motorist with his pickup truck. That’s a red flag surname right there. While examining the motorist, Vilmer breaks his neck and begins to chase Sean in his truck. Meanwhile, Heather and Barry get separated from Jenny while going back to the scene of the accident.
Heather and Barry, wandering, enter a dilapidated farmhouse (by this point Texas should have outlawed entering empty property following the massacres but the plot must go on). The owner W.E. Sawyer holds them at gunpoint but Barry needs to use the restroom. W.E. takes him inside while Leatherface reappears and attacks Heather, stuffing her in a meat locker. Barry is killed with a sledgehammer and Heather, is impaled on a meat hook, just like Pam from the first movie and with Ryan from the third.
Jenny reaches the place where they had crashed into the motorist. There, she comes across Vilmer. He offers her a ride after which he threatens her and shows her the bodies of Sean and the motorist. Jenny freaks out and jumps out of the truck and into the woods where Leatherface attacks her. She escapes into the house and finds a gun, which she fires at Leatherface. He keeps following her into the woods. Jenny runs back to the insurance office, asking Darla for help only to find out that she is affiliated with the Sawyers. She tells Jenny about the family’s reason for slaughter. The Sawyers were an extraterrestrial family who was on Earth for millennia with one sole purpose – to kill. They had an affiliation with international governments that allowed them to kill whoever. W.E. returns and beats Jenny with a cattle prod.
She is put in Darla’s trunk but manages to escape for a moment and uses the car to drive off. She awakens at the dinner table, amidst all the corpses of the cannibals seen in all the movies so far. Darla reveals that she cannot help Jenny since Vilmer had used a device to subdue her which would go off with Darla trying to help Jenny. A powerful politician, bureaucrat, and businessman named Rothman enters the house to check on the family, as he does with other creepy families around the world.
Finding Jenny alive, he becomes furious and tortures Vilmar with a remote control device implanted in his head. Jenny escapes but Vilmer and Leatherface chase her after the former regains his consciousness. Rothman saves Jenny and hires an assassin to get rid of Vilmer for messing up. Rothman tells Jenny that he will shut down the business and asks her to go to a nearby hospital, infuriating her.
At the hospital, Jenny confesses to the cops and the 1995 movie from the franchise ends with Leatherface being angry about Vilmer’s death, swinging his chainsaw.
What’s ironic about this movie is that contrary to what the name suggests, Leatherface does not get to kill anyone here with his chainsaw. But it manages to stick true to its slasher horror brand with the sledgehammers, deaths, and chase. In fact, Renée Zellweger, who plays Jenny, considered shooting the chase where Leatherface pursues her with his chainsaw as excellent motivation and workout. It also adds an extra layer to the story with the involvement of an organization that aids the Sawyers.
Do you want scary? THIS is scary! – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
This movie is a reboot. Erin, her boyfriend Kemper, and her friends Andy, Morgan, and Pepper head for a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert after scoring some pot from Mexico. As they drive through Texas, they find a distraught hitchhiker and pick him up like the guys from the first movie did. The hitchhiker speaks in gibberish almost, talking about a bad man. She then pulls out a .357 magnum-loaded revolver and shoots herself.
The group contacts the police where a woman, Luda Mae asks them to meet Sheriff Hoyt. They find Jedidiah, a young boy, instead who tells them that Hoyt was unavailable as he was getting drunk at home. Erin and Kemper try to find his house in the woods while the others are at the mill. They come across the godforsaken plantation house and an amputee named Monty allows Erin in. Kemper follows suit after a while to look for her but Leatherface kills him with a sledgehammer, drags his body to the basement, and makes a new mask.
Hoyt arrives in front of Morgan and Pepper. He disposes of the hitchhiker’s body while in the house, Erin realizes Kemper is nowhere to be found. She heads back to Monty’s house with Andy. Andy searches for Kemper while Erin distracts Monty. But, Monty realizes that Andy was inside and summons Leatherface to attack him with his chainsaw. Erin escapes to the woods but Leatherface gets rid of Andy’s left leg with the chainsaw. He then carries Andy to the basement, hangs him from the meat hook, rubs salt on his leg, wraps it around with butcher paper, and then uses human hair to tie it all together. After Andy regains consciousness, he tries to escape but gets impaled further.
Erin gets to the mill but Hoyt shows up before they can all leave. He finds their marijuana from Mexico and asks Morgan to reenact how the hitchhiker killed herself. Morgan tries to shoot him but finds the gun to be unloaded, Hoyt handcuffs Morgan and drives him back to the plantation house. Leatherface tracks down Erin and Pepper while wearing Kemper’s skinned face as his mask. He cuts Pepper in half while Erin hides in a trailer where a middle-aged woman, Tea Lady, and a younger woman, Henrietta, drug her with tea. Erin learns that they have kidnapped the hitchhiker’s child but passes out. She wakes up at the Hewitt household where the entire family surrounds her. She sees Leatherface, Luda Mae, Monty, Hoyt, and Jedidiah. Luda Mae tells Erin about Leatherface being tormented since childhood for a skin disease that disfigured his face.
In the basement, Erin sees the remains of the victims. She kills Andy to end his suffering and finds a handcuffed Morgan. Jedidiah leads them out of the house as he does not agree with his family. He also distracts Leatherface. Erin and Morgan barricade themselves in a shack in the woods but Leatherface finds them. Morgan attacks him but is suspended from a chandelier while Leatherface cuts through his groin with his chainsaw. He pursues Erin who attacks Leatherface with a meat cleaver in the slaughterhouse and slices off his right arm. She flags down a trucker outside and asks him to drive her away. He stops at the eatery where Luda Mae and Hoyt talk to him. Erin Sneaks the baby out and hot-wires Hoyt’s car. She runs it over him until he dies but Leatherface slashes the car with his chainsaw.
Erin escapes with the baby and reports the incidents to the police. Two of the investigating officers are subsequently killed by Leatherface.
John Larroquette reprised his role as the narrator for the movie after narrating for the first film in 1974. This movie in particular was so graphic that Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture banned it. This film is the first from the franchise that shows a family member betraying them to help the victims, as we see with Jedidiah. As a reboot, this movie does away with the Sawyer family and introduces Leatherface as part of the murderous Hewitt family.
Witness The Birth Of Fear – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
It’s August 28, 1939. A Texan woman dies while prematurely giving birth to a boy in a slaughterhouse located in Travis County. The manager of the place disposes of the baby in a dumpster. A young Luda Mae Hewitt was looking for food when she found the baby. She decides to take him to her place, names him Thomas, and raises him.
After thirty years, a grown-up Thomas works in the slaughterhouse. His manager is the same guy who had left him in the dumpster. Due to the terrible working conditions, the health department calls for the place to be shut down but Leatherface is reluctant to leave until his manager forces him out. Thomas returns later and with his chainsaw, murders the manager out of rage. Luda Mae’s son Charlie Hewitt accompanies Sheriff Hoyt in arresting Leatherface but Charlie instead kills the Sheriff and assumes his identity. Charlie and Leatherface take the sheriff home and cook his corpse as the family feasts on the remains.
Chrissie, Eric, Dean, and Bailey drive across the country to enlist in the Vietnam War. They go to an eatery where they bump into a biker gang. A gang member called Alex follows them and asks them to pull over with a shotgun. As the chase gets heated, the car ends up crashing with Chrissie falling into the field. Charlie arrives as Hoyt, shoots Alex, and gets them to put the body in his car. He then calls Uncle Monty to tow the jeep, unaware that Chrissie was hiding there.
The three of them are driven to the Hewitt house. Thomas butcher’s Alex’s body and ties Dean and Eric in their barn while Bailey is tied to the kitchen table. Chrissie spots this from afar and tries to get help from the highway. She allies with Holden from the biker gang and tells him about Alex being killed. The two head back to Hewitt’s residency.
Hoyt torments Dean for forgoing his Vietnam War draft but Eric breaks free after Hoyt leaves. He then frees the others but Bailey is stabbed by Leatherface’s meat hook as she escapes to Monty’s truck. She is dragged back while Hoyt knocks Eric out and Dean falls victim to a bear trap.
Chrissie and Holden arrive and split their ways. Holden takes Hoyt hostage while Chrissie finds Dean. Eric, on the other hand, is tied to a wooden table with the nerves of his arms sliced off by Leatherface. He also cuts Holden in half after Hoyt asks for help. After Thomas kills Eric, he skins his face and wears it as his mask.
Chrissie hears Bailey screaming and rushes upstairs but Hoyt gets a hold of her and drags her, Bailey, and an unconscious Dean downstairs. Leatherface kills Bailey by slitting her throat and takes Chrissie to the basement when she uses a screwdriver to stab him. She then escapes as she jumps out of the window.
Once Dean regains consciousness, he beats Hoyt and tries to find Chrissie. With a knife from the slaughterhouse, Chrissie cuts Thomas’s face but is subdued. Dean finds them but Leatherface kills him with his chainsaw. Chrissie escapes, gets into an abandoned car, and drives away. She pulls over after seeing a pedestrian and a state trooper when Leatherface impales her with his 35-pound chainsaw. She crashes into them while Leatherface walks back to the Hewitt house.
The 2003 movie was not supposed to have a sequel initially but after fans of the franchise kept approaching Brad Fuller and Andrew Form about the origins of the killers, they met up with Michael Bay and Sheldon Turner to make a prequel. The movie manages to create a darker backstory for Leatherface, documenting his transition from Thomas to Leatherface as he dons the skin from Eric’s face as a mask, and also, leaves no survivors, unlike the other movies.
Buzz, Kill – Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
This movie follows the events of the 1974 film with the Sawyers and the Hardesty’s. The sheriff arrives at the Sawyer’s, looking to arrest Leatherface. The family is forced to comply as Mayor Burt Hartman leads the people of Newt, Texas to burn down the plantation house. The entire family is killed when townsman Gavin Miller finds an infant with a burn mark. He kills her dying mother and raises the child as his own.
The movie has a time skip and introduces Heather Miller, who receives news of her grandmother, Verna Carson’s, passing away. The news of her inheriting her property comes as a surprise and she finds out from her parents that she was originally adopted from a family in Newt. Heather travels to her grandmother’s house with her boyfriend Ryan, friend Nikki, and her boyfriend Kenny, to collect the inheritance. Once again, the group picks up a hitchhiker.
When they arrive, Verna’s lawyer gives her a letter which she doesn’t read. The group plans to stay the night so they leave to buy food and supplies, leaving the hitchhiker Darryl to look after the place. He steals the valuables and ventures into a wine cellar when Leatherface appears and kills him.
Heather meets with the Mayor and Deputy Carl. When they return, they find the house to be ransacked. Kenny goes downstairs and while preparing dinner is impaled on Leatherface’s meathook. In the grocery, Heather had found out that Nikki and Ryan had slept together. Nikki gets Ryan to go to the bar and seduces him while Heather finds her grandmother’s body upstairs. Leatherface attacks her but she escapes. Meanwhile, Kenny falls victim to the chainsaw.
Heather hides in a coffin in a graveyard outside but Leatherface sees through it. He then proceeds to kill Nikki and Ryan but Heather picks them up in the van. Leatherface cuts through a tire and the van crashes, killing Ryan. He wounds Nikki and chases Heather to a carnival nearby where the grounds are being patrolled by Deputy Carl. She digs through the files about the Sawyer family at the police department and learns about its history and demise. Hartman and the sheriff send an officer to investigate her grandmother’s property. The officer finds Nikki hiding in the freezer and shoots her accidentally. Leatherface kills him and creates a new mask with the flesh from his cadaver.
An enraged Hartman is desperate to end the family and Heather meets her lawyer. He tells her that Leatherface is his cousin and he survived the house being burnt. Heather flees and runs into Hartman and Deputy Carl, who reveals himself to be Burt’s son. He takes her to the old slaughterhouse against her will and ties her up as they aim to annihilate the entire Sawyer family, Heather included. Leatherface finds her location and heads to the slaughterhouse to kill her but spots a Sawyer sigil birthmark on her chest. He removes her gag and she tells him that she is his cousin. Hartman and his friend Ollie attack Leatherface from behind and throw him into a meat grinder. Meanwhile Heather has a change of heart. She kills Ollie and gives Leatherface his chainsaw.
The sheriff arrives while Leatherface is about to kill Burt in the grinder. He lets both Heather and Leatherface go and the two cousins go to the Carson estate. Heather reads a letter from Verna where she learns her real name is Edith Rose Sawyer, Leatherface’s whereabouts in the basement and of him protecting her forever. However, she is also expected to care for him in return. Verna’s body is buried and Heather accepts Leatherface as her only family.
After being known as Bubba Sawyer and Thomas Hewitt, Leatherface’s name here is changed to Jebadiah Sawyer and then Jedidiah Sawyer, similar to the boy from the 2003 reboot. This movie does not follow the happenings of the sequels and is based on the events of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie from 1974. Leatherface’s family has always been portrayed as one where the members support one another through everything and this is highlighted as Heather learns that Leatherface will protect her for the rest of her life.
Witness the beginning of your end – Leatherface (2017)
Verna Sawyer holds a birthday party for a young Jedidiah and introduces him to the murderous rituals of the Sawyers as his birthday present. He is handed his first chainsaw and asked to slaughter a man who allegedly stole from them. The boy is disturbed and unable to do so. Grandpa Sawyer kills the thief himself.
In 1955, Ted Hardesty and Betty Hartman found Jedidiah, wounded. Betty follows him to a dilapidated barn where the Sawyer family kills Betty and her father Sheriff Hartman is in shock after hearing this. Jedidiah is taken into custody and sent to the Gorman House Youth Reformer.
After ten years, a nurse, Elizabeth White, bonds with two patients, Bud and Jackson. Jedidiah is now a teenager and Verna arrives, wanting to visit him but Director Lang rejects it. She violates security while leaving and causes a riot, which results in the death of several nurses and patients. Jackson saves Elizabeth but escapees Clarice and Ike to take them hostage. They see Bud, bloodied, after killing Director Lang after a rage episode.
They arrive at a diner when Ike and Clarice go on a murder spree. The group flees after Bud is injured and Hartman arrives with Deputy Sorrells. There, he learns that one of the escaped inmates is now a teenage Jedidiah. All the escapees go to an abandoned home for refuge. Ike sees Clarice’s scarred body while engaging in sexual intercourse. He stops Elizabeth who is trying to escape. Clarice goes missing the next morning while Elizabeth and Jackson find Bud sleeping on Ike’s corpse after killing him out of a fit of rage from being provoked.
Clarice looks for Ike in the woods but Hartman gets her first. She takes a headshot while the others watch it from a distance. Once the deputy passes by, Elizabeth screams out and Budgets is shot in the process. This enrages Jackson who kills the Deputy and gets Elizabeth to drive them in the deputy’s car. Hartman pursues them and opens fire. Jackson’s face is severed by a bullet and Elizabeth wakes up in Hartman’s car, handcuffed. She alerts Sorrells of her location after attending a dispatched call. Sorrells visits Verna and tells her of Jedidiah’s whereabouts with Hartman. Verna feeds Sorrells to her pigs and takes Jackson and Elizabeth hostage. Jackson is revealed to be Jedidiah while the Sawyers incapacitate Hartman on his arrival.
Verna stitches Jedidiah’s face at the Sawyer home. The boy is extremely mentally-scarred. She uses a muzzle to hold his face together and gives him his chainsaw. He bisects Hartman to death which a horrified Elizabeth witnesses. She manages to flee but gets caught in a bear trap. She pleads with Jedidiah to not kill her and at first, he listens but when she insults Verna, he decapitates her.
Verna burns all evidence of the events of the night before and the victim’s remains are fed to the pigs. Jedidiah creates a new mask out of Hartman and Elizabeth’s flesh and applies lipstick on it. As the film ends, he sees his reflection in the mirror and smashes it.
This is the last film Tobe Hooper produced before unfortunately passing away on August 26th, 2017. This is also by far the last film in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise and acts as a prequel. Even though it is not as horrifying as the other movies, this one dives into Verna’s relationship with Leatherface. It also shows Leatherface’s inner turmoil with his mental state with two scenes in particular – one where he considered Elizabeth’s pleas and the other where he smashes his reflection in the mirror.
Future Of The Franchise
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is set to have a Netflix release soon. The latest movie will also follow the original 1974 movie as a prototype and the audience is likely to learn more about Jedidiah, Verna, the Sawyers, and the Hardesty’s. Leatherface will be terrorizing his viewers and victims once more, this time more brutally than ever before.
We are likely to get to see more of the Sawyer family history and the occurrences revolving around his mental demise. Fans of the popular horror franchise are excited to return to the gruesome world of chainsaws, sledgehammers, skinned masks, and meat hooks.
The new cast for the reboot has already been revealed with Nell Hudson as Melody, Elsie Fisher as Lyla, Mark Burnham as Leatherface, Olwen Fouéré as Sally Hardesty, Jacob Latimore as Dante, Alice Krige as Mrs. Mc, Jessica Allain, as Dante’s girlfriend, Sam Douglas as Herb, and Moe Dunford as Daniel.
The exact date of release is unknown as of now but it is supposedly going to come out in 2021 itself.
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