Leatherface’s mask is revealed in a new poster for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022. The chainsaw-wielding cannibal maniac with a mask made out of a human face entered the pantheon of horror movie villains in Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 fright flick.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre of course went on to change movies forever and still exerts a profound influence today. Indeed filmmakers continue to revisit the most iconic of all Texas Chain Saw characters, even giving him an origin story with 2017’s Leatherface. Now there will be another Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise entry, with Leatherface again figuring as a central figure. In the spirit of other recent reboot efforts like Halloween, Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw revisit is set in the present day and features multiple characters from the original movie, as original Texas Chain Saw Massacre final girl Sally Hardesty (played now by Olwen Fouéré in place of the late Marilyn Burns) joins Leatherface.
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Fans have of course already been treated to one glimpse of the new Leatherface via a first look image but that picture only showed the character from behind. Thanks to a new poster just released via Netflix Geeked, everyone now gets a good look at Leatherface from the front, and it’s clear his taste in masks hasn’t changed since 1974. See the image in the space below:
Halloween 2018 obviously updated its story by acting as a direct sequel to the first movie in the franchise and ignoring most of what subsequent films had added to canon. Netflix’s new Texas Chainsaw Massacre will now try to pull off a similar trick, catching up with Leatherface decades after the events of the original film while acting like most
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