Leatherface is back in the gruesome trailer for Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The new movie, set to hit the streamer on February 18, is a direct sequel to the original film
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The trailer for Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre is here, and it’s as bloody and brutal as Leatherface fans have come to expect from the series. The new film marks the ninth entry into the storied franchise, but ignores all seven of the follow-up films to serve as a direct sequel to the original 1974 movie that changed the horror genre forever.
In the trailer, a new group of friends in the present day move to Harlow, Texas to start a new life with a brand new business. But they make the unfortunate mistake of disrupting the home of Leatherface, and the horrifying serial killer selects them as his next target, bringing his reign of terror back to the town.
The trailer has some moments of humor that come from the choice to set the film in the present, including a busload of people who threaten to record Leatherface on their phones and “cancel” him, only to moments later find themselves canceled via bloody chainsaw.
The movie stars Elsie Fisher, Sarah Yarkin, Jacob Latimore, and Nell Hudson. Olwen Fouéré plays Sally Hardesty, the sole survivor of the original massacre in the first film. Marilyn Burns, who played the character in the original film, died in 2014. In the trailer, Hardesty is determined to stop Leatherface permanently, but if the film does well for Netflix, surely they’ll green-light a tenth outing for the mysterious murderer.
The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre is directed by David Blue Garcia (Tejano), and written by Chris Thomas Devlin, with a story from Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues (who together wrote Don’t Breathe and Evil Dead).
The film hits Netflix on February 18.
The previous seven sequels were more than a bit uneven in their characterization of Leatherface, so it’ll be interesting to see if the new TCM follows the original more closely, or if they go in a brand new direction completely.
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What an odd-looking group of people. Is that just the resolution on the picture? Because based on this, I’m not sure who the one named “Leatherface” is supposed to be.
Really? I think Sarah Yarkin is super cute, I love her hair
I keep thinking someone face swapped the cast of search party
Yeah, good call.
she just has curly hair. you sound like the douche in the group leatherface would kill.
I appreciate it. The guy who gets killed first is usually good-looking.
it’s as bloody and brutal bad as Leatherface fans have come to expect from the series.
Seriously for all the crap that gets heaped on The Next Generation, at least they were trying something new and having fun with it, even if it was kind of a mess. I think Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel kind of realized that the original did what it did, became a landmark and horror cinema, and it was a fool’s errand to try and reinvent the wheel. But every TCM film outside of the Part 2 and The Next Generation is bound and determined to make something as gritty as the original, often in the context of a direct sequel or prequel.
Next Generation is secretly awesome.
It’s really looks like they pulled out all the stops for that bus scene.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, shot on location…in Bulgaria
So, she was in the town for fifty years and never ran across Leatherface the whole time? Was he on sabbatical somewhere else? Did he pack up the chainsaw, put on Groucho glasses and a hat and hoof it on the road?
He always looked like a different person because he kept on changing faces. Leatherface is a Master of Disguise and part of the Turtle Club.
I’m very leery of Fede Alvarez since his “rapist is now the hero” turn with Don’t Breathe 2.
They tried to acknowledge he was still a bad guy there and his antagonists initially (from what the audience learns of them) had a legitimate reason for going after him, but they still sought to make said antagonists even worse so that he’d be justified in killing them.
Sayagues directed Don’t Breathe 2, not Alvarez, though they both wrote it. They’ve co-wrote everything they’ve done, including this TCM movie. That’s the first Don’t Breath and the Evil Dead remake. This will be the first movie they wrote that neither directs.The rapist in Don’t Breath 2 isn’t made out to be a hero really, plot wise anyway. It’s still questionable in its execution though, because the movie wants you to hope that one particularly evil guy beats the other other particularly evil people. All to save a person who moves from being horrendously victimized by one party to the other, and doesn’t get much of a say in the matter. It’s not particularly good.Honestly, Alvarez and Sayagues trajectory reminds me a lot of Alexandre Aja’s. He got an underground hit with Haute Tension then went right into classic American horror remake with The Hills Have Eyes, then a couple of complete flops, the a Piranhas remake. The overall style is similar too.It’s the New French Extremity style without any of the substance, or actual transgressiveness. Aja got on the tail end of that with Haute Tension, a stupidly nonsensical and regressive film that was brutal for the sake of it, but it was palatable to the US and US studios wanted to replicate it. Eli Roth is the poster child of where it went from there.
except that I liked the Evil Dead remake and really liked Don’t Breathe until they retroactively ruined it. They were both nasty and fun without having for example the misogyny of Eli Roth or the nonsense (and misogyny) of Haute Tension. This is more like when I found out Ariel Pink is a traitor who marched on the capitol, I was like “shit, I actually listen to that guy’s music.”
Yeah, I too liked the first Don’t Breathe and their Evil Dead remake. Certainly far more than Haute Tension. Hell, I actually like Aja’s recent work as well. Both Crawl and Oxygen were tight thrillers. So maybe there’s hope Alvarez and Sayagues can creatively recover from Don’t Breath 2 when they do something that’s not a remake in the future. Roth can suck it though. Nothing he’s done has been good and it pains me that he’s now seen as some American icon of subversive horror. His History of Horror series is half decent though.
Idea for a movie: Sarah Yarkin, Ilana Glazer and Alia Shawkat. That’s it. That’s the whole movie. I would pay to see 90 minutes of these three just hanging out.
Yarkin looks like Emma Roberts to me. Which made the scene in American Horror Story Cult where Evan Peters slaps her pretty surreal.
Get your eyes checked. They look nothing alike.
Ok? Rude.
I can see someone’s fetish a mile away. That sounds like a fetish.
Glazer & Shawkat already did an episode of Broad City together.
And it was gold. I miss that series
Have them play roommates and call the movie Snake The Drain
I don’t know what it’s about, I just know that shower usually has standing water.
Are they ugly? Are they cute? WHO KNOWS! IT’S AMBIGUOUS!
I think it looks good. Skips all the sequels and goes from 1 to this (1 being one of the best and most amazingly shot movies I have ever seen). I wonder if the old lady in the movie is playing the girl from the 1st part. Jesus, 50 years ago, man I was born in late 73 so I’m right at that point!
I looked it up. The original actress died a few years ago, so they replaced her with this other older actress.
K thanks.
“Olwen Fouéré plays Sally Hardesty, the sole survivor of the original massacre in the first film.”
Marilyn Burns last role was in one of the other later sequels (I want to say TCM: 3D) where she played a new character who’s a member of the Sawyer family looking after Leatherface.
Hmmm thanks intersting. Funny enough as much as I love part 1, I never was into the sequels. The whole cannibal family thing freaked me out as a young teen in the late 80s.
Part 2 (with Dennis Hopper) is almost horror-comedy. I remember being mostly confused the first time I saw it. Grade-A Hopper weirdness, though.
I personally prefer Part 2. It is so goddam loony. The chainsaw fight is bananas.
Oh god yes. For those of you unfamiliar, this is not an exaggeration:
The scene where Hopper is shopping for his chainsaws is gloriously over the top. Including the weird old guy who seems to be getting wood.And who doesn’t love Stretch? When Leatherface puts the face on her? Guh, fucking GUH. It’s a goofy movie with moments of truly dark shit like that.
And the fact that the guy whose face it is isn’t dead, just wakes up and looks around? I need to watch that again.
Yeah. He’s alive long enough to get a smoke. Fucking Texans, man…
It looks like a ripoff of the recent Halloween movies. Ignore all the sequels and have the final girl from the original be obsessed with killing her tormentor.
And what is it with old ladies waiting 50 YEARS to conclude their revenge sagas? I mean, I ask you. Gee whiz.
I mean, it’s sort of understandable in Laurie Strode’s case as Michael Myers was locked away in the mental institution. Unless she wanted to charge in there like the third act of an “A-Team” episode, she could only bide her time.
“Unless she wanted to charge in there like the third act of an “A-Team” episode, she could only bide her time.”Or, you know move across the country. Or even better, move to another country. Preferably with an ocean between you and the US.
It looks like a ripoff of everything. You couldn’t pay me to watch this. Damn near every frame and beat of that trailer is creatively bankrupt.
I mean it worked will in the second Terminator film.
Yep. Back-to-basics yet vaguely “elevated.” Still, whenever I get upset about a horror franchise being creatively bankrupt, I remember how much I enjoy the 40,000 Halloween spawn made between 1979 and 1985.
which one of these kids is finn wolfhard?
All of them. He’s very versatile.
Wouldn’t Leatherface be in his seventies by now? I’m waiting for the gripping scene where he chases his helpless victim into a corner only for his leg to give out from the sciatica.
Yeah, nobody old has ever been able to do anything physical.
He’s not even wearing a mask in this one.
Pretty ageist of you
Look, I’ll watch it because I’m a sucker. The original is in the honorable mention portion of my Top Ten.But this does not look like the return to wonderful, paralyzing horror that I’m always hoping for and never getting.
Looks like this is borrowing from Halloween 2018’s premise. I’ll give it a chance.
Trailers show way too much of the movie now. I feel like I’ve already watched the movie.
Pfft. You should see the trailer for the original film. It literally spoils every good bit from the movie:
Ed Gein.
This looks shitty. The “cancel” gag is so weird- like, no, that’s not what The Young Adults of today do when confronted with a weirdo in a mask, this is some guy’s idea of what Cancel Culture is.
Please, tell us what a young adult WOULD say to Leatherface in real life.
Right? It’s dumb and nonsensical. Although presumably it’s a big hit with the folks in this comment section saying that he should scare young people by ‘forcing them to stay at one job for a year’.
Beyond that it feels just like- what made TCM scary wasn’t just Leatherface, you know? One guy with a chainsaw is not as scary as a room full of furniture carved from human remains.
For me, the scariest aspect of the original film isn’t Leatherface or the predatory Sheriff or the grotesque meal or the nearly-dead grandfather they keep in the attic, it’s the fact that for that particular family, all of that was normal. Just them going about their lives.
For me it was always that these were actually just (really, REALLY fucked-up) people and the victims went from making a wrong turn to being trapped in something so hideous it shouldn’t exist. Nothing supernatural, just unfortunate victims who could have been anyone.
Yeah both that film and Hills Have Eyes capture this vibe of “here be dragons”, like there are places on the map that people should not go.
Jesus lady, close your mouth
So basically, they saw how much people loved the new Halloween movie going full Terminator 2 with the original film’s final girl and thought “We can rip that off. Who cares if the actress is dead, and the only way people might be interested in this thing was getting her back?”
It’s even worse because this franchise has more direct sequels that ignore all previous sequels than Halloween, and it rarely works.
More woke bullshit that’s DOA.
Is this gonna be really terrible like that recent Halloween Kills movie? But I suppose nothing can be as bad as that was…
I mean, most Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequels are pretty terrible.
Texas Chainsaw 2 was the only direct sequel the original ever needed.
Sorry, but it’s just not a TCM trailer without John Laroquette narrating it.Edit: I stand corrected! https://www.yahoo.com/now/texas-chainsaw-massacre-hooks-john-183841277.html
Since this is supposed to scare young people, Leatherface should run around dressing his victims in business suits, forcing them to stay in one job for more than a year. He then makes them get married and have kids which causes them to die of irrational fears and boredom. LOL!
I’m glad you’re laughing out loud at your own unfunny joke because no one else is going to.
some cool shots at the very least!
It should’ve been Sarah Yarkin slicing up the unwary with a chainsaw instead of Leatherface!
Recent TCM movies have missed something consistently true about every one of these movies up to 2006: Leatherface is never as interesting as the fucked-up family members who let Leatherface live with them.
Yeah, he’s just the family’s muscle. He’s Blaster from Beyond Thunderdome.
Yeah. Whatever happened to this guy?
I only really saw the original. Have they made a sequel about Leatherface’s brother?
He could actually still be out there hitchhiking, whereas Leatherface’d have a harder time blending in.
That dude got wrecked by a semi-truck in the end of the original.https://youtu.be/DsK2wKns61Y
That’s right. He died at the end of the first one.
… or did he?Nope. Nope. Nevermind. He’s dead. He’s not cutting nobody no more.
Do we get to see Alex Daddardio in all sorts of tight, see through clothing?
Wait, this movie is supposed to take place in the present day? The fuck? I clearly hadn’t been paying much attention to this movie, but from the hair an clothing styles I had seen in still shots, and the “direct-sequel” claim I had assumed it was it taking place in the 70s right after the events of the first film, not modern day. So Leatherface is pushing 70 years old now? For almost 50 years he’s just been chilling at that homestead and never been found? The gas station with no gas is still getting on fine? Apparently Leatherface still likes to make his first kill with a hammer as well. If they’re playing this as sequel 50 years later, that means Sally and the guy who picked her up, and fought Leatherface, never reported this to anyone? Let alone her parents and the parents of her killed friends? It’s not like the place is hard to find. Also, people, don’t just walk into other people’s houses. It played okay, and somewhat naïve, in the original, but who in this day an age would just walk into someone’s house just because the door is unlocked? Especially fucking modern day Texas. It’s been such a trope of the murderous/cannibals family genre for so long now it needs to die.
It looks too clean. I know we’re all walking around with HD4KHDR rigs in our back pocket; But TCM should always look like it was shot on super 8. That lived-in documentary feel is one of the main reasons it’s so scary.
This being written by the geniuses who attempted to make the rapist of Don’t Breathe into some kind of antihero (for the record, before anyone says the sequel didn’t really make him that much of a hero, they’ve stated before that they saw him as misunderstood), I expect Leatherface and family to be portrayed as not-that-bad too and that it’s the cancel culture brought by the people in that bus that’s bad.
Man, I really wish people who don’t understand what “cancel” means would stop using it.
I can’t scroll past that thumbnail without thinking “oh yeah, Search Party is back.”