Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022’s Biggest Mistake Was Leatherface’s New Backstory
In 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface has a backstory that emerges as a major mistake for the movie. Billed as a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s classic 1974 original, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, in which Sally Hardesty became the final girl, director David Blue Garcia’s newest offering has rearranged more than the original title. In the follow-up to Hooper's «grizzly work of art,» Leatherface's chainsaw is loaded with flimsy motivation as he pursues some new-in-town gentrifiers and is reunited with Hardesty, who is now a Texas Ranger.
In the 2022 film, Leatherface, free from consequences for almost fifty years, has downed tools and retired to live out his senior years in an orphanage in the abandoned ghost town of Harlow. Like the diminishing returns of the Chainsaw legacy, the fact that he is the only orphan there indicates that the business is in decline. The death of Leatherface's sole protector, his guardian mother figure, Ginny, from a stress-induced heart attack following the failure of some investors to properly check their proprietary paperwork turns out to be the catalyst for him retrieving his chainsaw and taking her face as his own.
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If the intention of Texas Chainsaw Massacre is to comment on the modern world by having Leatherface annihilate it, then that would be fair enough. Instead, it attempts to inject poignancy into the central characters, the weepy sisters, Melody and Lila, whom Leatherface is pursuing, and worse, Leatherface himself. Over five decades, Leatherface has emerged in multiple Chainsaw sequels, spinoffs, and different timelines with a variety of inclinations. Due to this film being a direct sequel to the
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