The horror world is being dominated today by Netflix’s official trailer for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a brand new legacy sequel that’s coming exclusively to Netflix on February 18.
That movie is a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s original classic, the franchise once again going back in time rather than charting a course forward. As you may recall, 2013’s Texas Chainsaw 3D was similarly a “legacy sequel” to the original, while the more recent Leatherface was a prequel story delving into the horror icon’s origins. Both of these movies came in the wake of a remake, a prequel to that remake, and a string of oddball sequels that rarely had anything to do with each other, all of them coming together to form one hell of a confusing franchise.
And Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre isn’t even the only new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie on the way. Back in May 2021, it was announced that original Leatherface actor Gunnar Hansen‘s book Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie was being turned into a feature film, you may recall.
Published in 2013, the late Gunnar Hansen‘s book went deep into the making of Tobe Hooper‘s horror classic, and Kirk Shaw’s Ambitious Entertainment and Yvette Yates Redick and Shaun Redick’s Impossible Dream Entertainment are joining forces to bring that true story to life.
“Chain Saw Confidential is being mounted as a dark comedy,” Deadline reported last May. They added, “Hansen’s book has been adapted by David Dubos, and purports to bring to the screen all the fun, horror and craziness from the making of the original seminal 1974 Tobe Hooper-directed horror film that cost $140,000 and grossed north of $30 million, spawning knock offs and numerous noisy and bloodier franchise extensions.”
The making of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was infamously a hellish experience, with the cast and crew braving the hot Texas sun to bring to the screen one of the most truly horrifying horror movies ever put to film. This should make for one hell of a movie, to say the least.
Stay tuned for more as we learn it.