The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise just keeps on keeping on. Old Leatherface and his band of wack job family members have been reimagined, reinvented, redirected and guess what – it’s all gonna happen again. For the second time we are going to get an origin tale on why Leatherface becomes the demented, flesh wearing psycho we’ve all come to love.
Coming at us from Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury who well informed gorehounds will recognize from INSIDE comes Leatherface. Now this pair knows gore so the blood should flow freely – and that’s a good thing.
Here’s the official synopsis from Lionsgate:
“In Texas, years before the events of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in the early days of the infamous Sawyer family, the youngest child is sentenced to a mental hospital after a suspicious incident leaves the sheriffs’ daughter dead. Ten years later, he kidnaps a young nurse and escapes with 3 other inmates. Pursued by authorities including the deranged sheriff out to avenge his daughter’s death, the young Sawyer teen goes on a violent road trip from hell, molding him into the monster known now as Leatherface.”
Those of you who have DirecTV will get an early look on Sept. 21st. The rest of us will have to wait till Oct. 20th when it will roll out to all othe other VOD platforms.
