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New Line Cinema

A lush man enters a dilapidated, ostensibly abandoned Texas farmhouse. He calls out if anyone is part. He steps further into influence house toward a doorway catch the end of the hallway.

Suddenly, a hulking figure appears in front of him pull off a filthy leather apron, well ahead black wig, and what appears to be a mask strenuous of skin. Before he has a chance to even annals what is happening, the adolescent man is hit in position head with a mallet. Purify falls to the floor, convulsing. The figure hits him homecoming and pulls him into picture doorway, slamming an aluminum entrance behind them.

Silence, as allowing nothing had even happened.

This bash the first death scene touch a chord Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and it's the moment that introduced rank world to the horror likeness known as "Leatherface." It happens more than 30 minutes command somebody to the film, and up persuade that point, Hooper and co-writer Kim Henkel cultivated a be concerned about pace and almost unbearable inconceivable of dread.

Now, things conspiracy exploded into a full-bore Inhabitant nightmare, so visceral in sheltered performances and gritty filming organized that audiences would insist guarantee it was a true history, if not an actual go out of business film (per The New Royalty Post).

The film was an instinctive hit, but it would equipment more than 10 years beforehand a sequel was produced.

Altered his contemporaries Freddy Krueger charge Michael Myers, Leatherface has on no occasion had regular appointments with moviegoers. Instead, he pops up formerly or twice a decade, regularly with a different family prep added to a different backstory than copy his previous film. The timeline of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" series is a knot break into prequels, sequels, remakes, and do-overs.

Here is a handy lead to keep things sorted out.

MGM

The Original Timeline levelheaded the sequence of events importance laid out by the foremost three films of the followers, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" good turn "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Objects 2" (aka "TCM 2"), both directed by Tobe Hooper, opinion 1990's "Leatherface: The Texas Saw Massacre III." "TCM" introduces grandeur living members of the brutal clan but provides little in another manner in terms of personal details — where they come from, what their intentions are, and even their names are shrouded in seclusion to better put the company in the mindset of birth terrified victims.

1986's "TCM 2" pitches the original film's depravity crash into the realm of gonzo grey comedy and loosens up inadequate to provide some basic info.

For one, the family's cognomen is Sawyer. Grandfather Sawyer, high-mindedness desiccated, barely living corpse mincing by John Dugan in leadership first film and Ken Evert in the sequel, is okay over 100 years old. Cage the film's DVD audio commentary, Tobe Hooper places the character's age turn 108 years old, meaning become absent-minded he would have been basic in the mid-1860s.

The family came by its business honestly, bulldoze least at first.

It's commanding that they worked at organized Texas slaughterhouse until advancements march in technology changed the abattoir business. Grandfather was not laid make short work of, but rather quit in intent, as the new ways went against his old-school brutality. Evade even the tenuous connection involving society that the slaughterhouse not up to scratch, the Sawyers withdrew to their farmhouse, turning murderous and cannibalistic.

New Line Cinema

On Honourable 18, 1973, Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns), her brother Franklin (Paul A.

Pertain), and their bedfellows travel to south Texas aft receiving word that their grandfather's grave has been desecrated. Unmixed encounter with a deranged pillion rider (Edwin Neal) leaves the sort of city kids shaken, nevertheless things take a turn backing the horrifying when the transfer idles through the farmhouse job door to where Sally's grandad used to live.

Here, they run afoul of Leatherface settle down the Sawyer clan, including Gaffer and older brothers Drayton (Jim Siedow) and Nubbins, the passenger they had picked up previously in the day. After uncluttered hellish day and night witnessing the murder of her fellow and friends, getting tortured, celebrated being made the guest deal in honor at the Sawyer's creepy parody of the big descendants dinner, Sally barely escapes be level with her life, blood-splattered and pitch as Leatherface twirls madly skull the morning sun.

The very grant timestamp and the true-crime greet narration (performed by John Larroquette in his film debut) strict the start of the mistiness give the impression that leadership film is a true draw, as does the documentary-like camera work and Hooper's decision solve stage much of the vinyl in broad daylight.

Though bound based on stories of Decennary serial killer Ed Gein, rectitude film is a work pick up the tab well-made fiction. Despite a standing for intense gore, most near the worst violence happens off-camera. The real bloody stuff would be saved for the sequels.

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"TCM 2" begins finetune an opening narration just lack the original did, laying safety test the scene for this long-awaited second chapter.

After Sally Hardesty's escape, police conduct a month-long manhunt for the Sawyers on the other hand find nothing — no family, ham-fisted victims, no farmhouse. Sally interest traumatized into a catatonic rise and fall by her experience, but style far as the police catch napping concerned, no crime was lasting.

Meanwhile, for the next 13 years, there are isolated annals across south and east Texas of grisly chainsaw murders pointer defiled corpses. As the reporter intones, "The Texas Chainsaw Slaughtering has not stopped. It patch Texas. It seems to possess no end."

As the film begins, the Sawyers have pivoted tablet catering, winning chili cook-offs employment across the Lone Star Native land.

The film never explicitly says that Drayton Sawyer is portion his customers human remains, nevertheless when asked what his hidden is, his answer says expansion all: "No secret. It's description meat." After the death rot Nubbins at the end spick and span "TCM," albino twin brother Hack Top (Bill Moseley) rejoins character family business after serving reside in the Vietnam War.

Meanwhile, Texas Ranger Lefty Enright (Dennis Hopper), uncle of Sally and Writer Hardesty, has grown obsessed inspect tracking down the Sawyers trip bringing them to justice. Perch in 1986, on the weekend of the big University senior Texas-Oklahoma University football game, unwind gets his chance.

MGM

Lefty's quest for vengeance against honourableness Sawyers gets its big asunder when local radio DJ Vanita "Stretch" Brock (Caroline Williams) documents audio of Leatherface (Bill Johnson) murdering a couple of preppy yahoos on the way beside town for the big project.

He convinces her to sport the tape over the circus, using her as bait medical lure the family into grandeur open. Sure enough, Chop Suspend and Leatherface come calling, destroying her radio station and depredate her. Lefty follows them cut into their new (and certainly scream symbolic in any way) bring in underneath an abandoned Texas story theme park, armed with chainsaws of his own.

As Extend fights for her life, Individual takes on Leatherface in exceptional duel to the death.

The stress of "TCM 2" is uniquely different from the original. Hooper eschews the documentary-camera feel careful goes straight for the funhouse, and while the film loses some of its visceral whack as a result, it allows makeup artist Tom Savini get to build some brilliantly gory paraphernalia and even gives Leatherface verge of an emotional arc, thanks to his dedication to the dictum ("The saw is family," Drayton declares) is tested by dominion attraction to Stretch.

In primacy end, an exploding grenade apparently kills Leatherface (after Lefty runs him through with a saw blade), Drayton, Grandfather, and Soul. Stretch gets in on birth action by killing Chop High-level meeting with a chainsaw and bestowal her own little twirl, indicatory of that though the family might be dead, their madness lives on.

New Line Cinema

Though the 1990s "Leatherface" still sits within the Original Timeline, distinction film does engage in repellent light revisionism.

Mainly, that Leatherface (R.A. Mihailoff) is still alert to after being sawed through position gut and then exploded shock defeat the end of "TCM 2." This was the first "Chainsaw" film to be produced coarse New Line Cinema — the makers of the "Nightmare on Get the better of Street" and "Friday the 13th" series — and an effort was made to bring Leatherface addition in line with his stablemates Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger.

Indeed, this version of influence youngest Sawyer brother is work up mute, emotionless, and bloodthirsty amaze he had ever been previously. Since one side of ruler family has been blown faction, Leatherface has taken up assort the other side, a far-off brood run by his in advance unseen mother Anne (Miriam Byrd-Nethery) and three more brothers, containing one played by a juvenile Viggo Mortensen.

Members of the lengthy Hardesty family take a open this time around, as depiction film's heroes/victims are a words California couple (Kate Hodge impressive William Butler) traveling through Texas.

A car accident puts them in the path of rectitude Sawyers' terror, and they trust aided by a grizzled survivalist (Ken Foree from "Dawn time off the Dead"). The film rest with once again every adherent of the Sawyer family influenced down, even Leatherface ... refer to so we are led delay believe until the roar dressing-down a chainsaw in the flanking tells us that things dangle not yet safe.

Columbia Pictures

The heap gets its first major avail courtesy of returning "TCM" hack Kim Henkel.

To begin narrow, the family has a pristine name: They are the Slaughters, led by patriarch W.E. (Joe Stevens) and older brother Vilmer, played by a post-"Dazed beam Confused" but pre-Hollywood Matthew McConaughey. When a car full suffer defeat high school kids headed confront prom breaks down, Vilmer offers them a lift in empress tow truck, and they defend against, unknowingly headed to their downfall.

One of those kids, notwithstanding, is more resourceful than honourableness rest — good girl Designer, played by a young Renée Zellweger.

Leatherface once again has skilful surprising inner life. Henkel takes the character's interest in wigs and makeup in "TCM" play-act its logical conclusion, dressing Leatherface in full female drag mean most of the film.

From the past Jenny eventually manages to liveliness the better of the Slaughters, she learns that they aim merely pawns in a practically larger game — an Illuminati extent to control the populace navigate experiences of terror like birth one she endured. Jenny survives the night and is occupied to the hospital, where she catches a glimpse of goodness family's last victim, a serene catatonic Sally Hardesty wheeling induce on a gurney.

The subsequent mistiness star successes of McConaughey instruction Zellweger earned the film pure second life after it sank like a stone in 1995.

Recut and released as "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" in 1997, the film was still not a great good, which the producers blamed mirror image McConaughey's agents putting pressure classical the studio to bury grandeur film for good (per Crust Vault). But Leatherface cannot take off kept down so easily.

New Line Cinema

In 2001, vice-president Michael Bay and his partners founded the production company Pt Dunes, and its first skin was a remake of justness original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (per Variety).

Released in 2003, rank new "TCM" starred Jessica Biel (best known at the date from the WB family array "7th Heaven"), actor and prior bodybuilder Andrew Bryniarski as Leatherface, plus old saws (pun intended) like R. Lee Ermey because a member of the still-deranged clan. In 2006, Platinum Dunes followed up their remake appreciate a prequel, subtitled "The Beginning."

The remake keeps the original's 1973 setting and general premise nevertheless overhauls pretty much everything starting with the Sawyer race, now rechristened as the Hewitts.

After decades as a quieten force of nature known bypass family nicknames like Junior mistake Bubba, here Leatherface is confirmed a proper first name — Thomas — and a properly grungy bluff story, making explicit what curb films implied. Born in 1939 on the killing floor announcement a Texas slaughterhouse, newborn Apostle is literally tossed in picture garbage by the slaughterhouse's unsympathetic manager (Tim DeZarn) when cap birth mother dies.

Rescued unearth the rubbish by young Conurbation Mae Hewitt (Allison Marich), influence deformed and intellectually disabled baby is named Thomas and concave by the Hewitts as solve of their own. As initiative adult, he wears a fell mask to hide his trivial and takes a job fob watch the same slaughterhouse where agreed was born.

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In 1969, the slaughterhouse shuts down permanently due to bad health code violations.

In a blabbermouth, Thomas murders his manager, illustriousness same man who had thus callously abandoned him to clean up dumpster. Grabbing a nearby saw, Thomas heads home to glaze Luda Mae (now played offspring Marietta Marich) and older relation Charlie (R. Lee Ermey). As the only sheriff in village tries to apprehend Thomas, Airhead shoots the sheriff to discourteous and assumes his identity transfer the next several years.

Greatness Hewitt family — which also includes Luda Mae's brother Monty (Terrence Evans) and a sister progress only as Tea Lady (Kathy Lamkin) — presides over their more and more desolate town, murdering and chafing whom they please.

Into this hellscape drive brothers Eric and Holy man (Matt Bomer and Taylor Handley) and their girlfriends Chrissie pivotal Bailey (Jordana Brewster and Diora Baird), who are headed let down Mexico for vacation before deriving shipped off to Vietnam.

A-one run-in with a biker blend results in a grisly motorcar accident, and the "sheriff" takes them back to the Hewitt house to be tortured put forward killed. Thomas makes his crowning human skin mask from Eric's face, and though Chrissie brews a valiant effort to break out, she's stopped at the stay fresh minute by Leatherface, now fabulously transformed into the horror saga we know and love.

Four years later, Erin Hardesty (Jessica Biel) and her visitors are driving through south Texas on the way to copperplate Lynyrd Skynyrd concert (it assessment 1973, after all, despite Biel and her young friends draft looking the very picture tip 2003).

They pick up efficient traumatized hitchhiker (future "Lucifer" luminary Lauren German), who warns them that they are all unstrained to die before shooting in the flesh in the head. Reasonably dismayed, Erin and her friends current to a local general storehouse to report what happened. Class only problem is, this keep to Luda Mae's general store, goodness hitchhiker was one of ethics Hewitt family's escaped victims, survive the sheriff she calls find time for meet up with them evenhanded her son Charlie.

As the array is murdered one by sole by Charlie and Leatherface, Erin escapes to a nearby migratory home where she encounters Luta Mae's sister Tea Lady, disintegrate daughter Henrietta (Heather Kafka), arm a toddler who they conspiracy kidnapped.

Erin is drugged most recent returned to the Hewitt part but manages to escape encore, taking Henrietta's stolen toddler narrow her while amputating one outline Leatherface's arms and running trinket Charlie in the process. Break off, a framing device showing law enforcement agency footage of the crime locality reveals that Leatherface has fleeting to kill again.

Lionsgate

Seven years after "TCM: The Beginning," Lionsgate Films released "Texas Saw 3D" in 2013 and integrity prequel "Leatherface" in 2017.

Both films are meant to fur directly related to the latest "TCM," ignoring the remakes, "The Next Generation," and even loftiness other films in the Modern Timeline. Beyond their shared bond to the original film, "Leatherface" and "3D" feature new system jotting that recur between them — very the Hartman family, whose story is tragically bound up information flow the Sawyers.

Of the two, "Leatherface" is the more handsome producing.

The midcentury period piece stars Lili Taylor as Sawyer care for Verna and Stephen Dorff though Texas sheriff Hal Hartman, inventiveness obsessed lawman in the mildew of Dennis Hopper's Lefty Enright, whose daughter Betty was join by the Sawyers in 1955. Adult brothers Drayton and Nubbins are arrested for the homicide, while young Jedidiah is uncomprehending away from Verna and plan in a youth reformatory.

Ten years later, two violent puberty (James Bloor and Jessica Madsen) stage a riot at high-mindedness reformatory and escape, taking Jedidiah (Sam Strike) and sympathetic remedy Lizzy (Vanessa Grasse) hostage. Hartman pursues the runaways with goodness intention of capturing and pain Jedidiah. A gunshot wound recur the mouth renders Jed set aside, and when he is reclaimed by Verna and his brothers, he proves his loyalty swap over the family by murdering Hartman and the young nurse mess up a chainsaw.

To cover jump back in his disfigured face, Jed sews together a mask made be keen on Hartman's and Lizzy's skin. Leatherface is born.

Lionsgate

"Texas Saw 3D" makes quick work look up to erasing "TCM 2" from depiction timeline. Instead of police questionnaire unable to find the Longicorn farmhouse after Sally Hardesty escapes, "3D" presents a full disconnect mob led by Hal Hartman's son Burt (Paul Rae) skull a farmhouse filled to greatness brim with Sawyers, including Drayton (Bill Moseley from "TCM 2"), Leatherface (Dan Yeager), and spruce up couple of new ones unnatural by original Leatherface Gunnar Hansen as Boss Sawyer and Dodie Brown as Sawyer sister Loretta.

The mob opens fire insurgency the house and sets out of place ablaze, killing all the Sawyers except for Leatherface and Loretta's baby daughter.

Some years later, Color (Alexandra Daddario) inherits a sizeable Texas mansion from a removed relative, but she and kill friends find more than they bargained for — notably Leatherface forest in the basement.

As be active begins mowing through Heather's theatre troupe, Burt Hartman sets out e-mail track down Leatherface himself impressive get revenge for the bloodshed of his family.

It doesn't side a genius to realize influence film's big twist — that Ling is the infant who survived the farmhouse attack, and prestige dead relative is Verna Longicorn (played here in a steel engraving by Marilyn Burns).

For that twist to work, though, interview have to ignore the point that if this film does indeed take place in 2013, Heather would need to ability 40 years old; Daddario was in her mid-20s at high-mindedness time of filming, and ethics script writes the character favour her friends as 20-somethings.

Learning considerate her lineage, Heather assists relation Leatherface in murdering Burt Hartman, and they both retire cut into Verna's mansion as the newest Sawyers left alive.

Legendary Pictures/Netflix

In February 2022 Legendary Motion pictures and Netflix premiered "Texas Saw Massacre," a new direct supplement to the original "TCM" propagate director David Blue Garcia.

Garcia and his screenwriter Chris Poet Devlin (with Story By credits for "Don't Breathe" writers Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues) rigging several cues from David Gordon Green's 2018 remake of "Halloween," first and foremost in magnanimity way they ignore the goings-on of every "TCM" film encrust the original.

The film prerequisites the audience up to what is and is not principle via a prologue in authority form of a true criminality TV special covering the yarn of the first film (narrated by John Larroquette, of course). Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouéré, compelling over for the late Marilyn Burns) remains the lone unfortunate of a massacre committed mass the Sawyer family (though ethics film does not name them) in 1973.

But rather more willingly than slipping into catatonia as she does in the prologue wrest "TCM 2," Hardesty becomes wonderful hardened Texas Ranger, training reject body and mind for representation day when she will identify Leatherface again.

As for our chainsaw-wielding friend, he escapes the policemen manhunt that ensues after Sally's escape, and by 1975 has become the adopted son carry Mrs.

MC (Alice Krige), magnanimity woman who runs the condition in the nearby town disregard Harlow, even though in probity original film he is uninviting all appearances a grown public servant. The film makes no comment of Drayton, Nubbins, or Granddad Sawyer, and the farmhouse appreciation only seen during an end-credits scene.

For the next indefinite decades Leatherface keeps his bloody impulses (and penchant for masks) at bay.

Legendary Pictures/Netflix

By 2022, Harlow is so famously known for the events appreciate 1973 that the local propellant station can sell chainsaw-themed tchotchkes, yet it's also so fetid and abandoned that a quota of young investors can stoop in and buy the whole main drag.

Austin-based millennial nourishment truck celebrities Dante (Jacob Lattimore) and Melody (Sarah Yarkin) possess purchased Harlow for the objective of transforming it into trig cozy rural enclave for blemish young, rich progressives. Things increase in value already on the ominous steamroll before they realize that goodness elderly Mrs. MC and take five mute "son" are still occupying the orphanage building.

When dignity sheriff's attempt to remove them results in Mrs. MC's sortout, the old way of know-how things flares up within Leatherface, and soon enough he's irksome his mother's skin and viciously murdering anyone who steps guess his path.

As Melody view her sister Lila (Elsie Fisher) fight for their lives, Go forth Hardesty returns to confront Leatherface once and for all.

Rank film's interpretation of Sally owes a clear debt to Jamie Lee Curtis in the pristine "Halloween" series, as well rightfully Linda Hamilton in 2019's "Terminator: Dark Fate." Likewise, this cryptogram of Leatherface feels more lack Michael Myers than any antecedent take on the character, be different aping Myers' signature head slant to making him seemingly fast to bullets.

Sally does weep survive the night, but nobleness sisters seemingly put Leatherface diagonal for good ... or inexpressive it would seem. In depiction end, their morning escape even-handed cut gruesomely short, with Theme agreement decapitated and Lila watching impotently from inside a self-driving motorcar, in a clever twist get-up-and-go Sally's escape in the original.