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Kemper

Erin's boyfriend and the first victim of the 2003 remake.

Kemper is Erin's boyfriend in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and the first of the travellers to die. Eric Balfour plays him.

Last updated 2026-11-01 from the source article.

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Played by
Eric Balfour

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Background

He is driving the van when the group picks up a distraught hitchhiker who kills herself inside it. He and Erin walk to the Hewitt house to look for the sheriff, and only Erin is let in. When Kemper goes inside to look for her, Leatherface hits him with a sledgehammer and drags him to the basement; Leatherface later cuts off his face and wears it as a mask.

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