How Old Leatherface & Sally Are In Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022

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Here’s how old Leatherface and Sally are in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022. Netflix’s legacy sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre picks up fifty years after the events of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. This particular “requel” will not only harken the return of Leatherface (Mark Burnham) but also Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouéré), who was the lone survivor of the brutal killings carried out by the Sawyer family in Austin, Texas.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre timeline is a messy and complicated one, given the numerous reboots and remakes that follow Hooper’s original, with films such as Leatherface and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning aiming to flesh out backstories for the Sawyer family. The Netflix “requel” will follow the footsteps of David Gordon Green’s Halloween films, as it will pick up right after the 1974 original movie while ignoring all previous entries of any kind.

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Leatherface’s origins have been forayed into a couple of times, with horror filmmakers attempting to dissect the hows and the whys that lie behind the Sawyer family’s affinity for violence and cannibalism. However, the enduring legacy of Leatherface lies in what he stands for as opposed to how he came to be — the creators of the 1974 original took inspiration from both serial killer Ed Gein and the concept of the macabre in fairy tales such as Hansel and Gretel. Hence, Leatherface’s blood-soaked legacy stems from this aura of pure, helpless, paralyzing terror, something which Sally Hardesty felt acutely as the final girl in the first film. Although much is not known about Bubba Sawyer’s childhood (as one has to ignore previous entries in the context