Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
Fifty years on, Leatherface returns when a ghost town is put up for sale.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 2022 slasher film directed by David Blue Garcia, with a screenplay by Chris Thomas Devlin from a story by Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues. It is the ninth film in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise and is set fifty years after the original, as Leatherface targets a group of young adults and clashes with a vengeful survivor of his earlier killings.
Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham, Moe Dunford, Nell Hudson, Jessica Allain, Olwen Fouéré, Jacob Latimore and Alice Krige star.
Quick Facts
- Director
- David Blue Garcia
- Screenplay
- Chris Thomas Devlin
- Story
- Fede Álvarez; Rodo Sayagues
- Based on
- Characters
- Kim Henkel
- Tobe Hooper
- Producer
- Fede Álvarez
- Herbert W. Gains
- Kim Henkel
- Ian Henkel
- Pat Cassidy
- Cinematography
- Ricardo Diaz
- Editing
- Christopher S. Capp
- Music
- Colin Stetson
Facts from the source article.
Background
In the story, young entrepreneurs travel to the abandoned Texas town of Harlow to auction off its old buildings, and an argument with an elderly woman still living in the old orphanage sets Leatherface loose; Sally Hardesty, the sole survivor of his 1973 spree, comes looking for him. After Lionsgate lost the franchise rights, Legendary Pictures made the film with Exurbia Films and Bad Hombre, with Álvarez and Sayagues producing alongside Kim Henkel, co-writer of the original film. Ryan and Andy Tohill were first hired to direct but were replaced by Garcia over creative differences, and filming took place in Bulgaria in August 2020. It was released on Netflix on 18 February 2022 to generally negative reviews.
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