Despite mixed reviews, Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a commercial success and had high viewership.Ĭast: Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Julia Rehwald, Fred Hechinger, Ashley Zukerman, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Maya Hawke Though a ninth installment in the long-running franchise, this 2022 Netflix film steers clear of all the other reboots and remakes of the original film and connects back only to the first film, making it worth watching for nostalgia’s sake. Directed by David Blue Garcia, the latest installment of the slasher thriller is based on an original story by Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues of Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe fame. As the killer resurfaces, one of his past victims, Sally Hardesty, the sole survivor of the ‘73 massacre gets ready for vengeance. Completely unaware of the remote town’s horrific history, their dreams turn into living nightmares when they disrupt the guarded life of Leatherface and reignite his killing spree. 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre picks up nearly 50 years after the massacre in Harlow, Texas, where a group of young men and women, Melody, Lila, Dante, and Ruth arrive with a plan to set up a business.
Cringe or scream, these movies do have the power to make you jump in fear, sometimes, literally.Ĭast: Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham, Moe Dunford, Nell Hudson, Jessica Allain, Olwen Fouéré, Jacob Latimore, Alice KrigeĪ direct sequel of the eponymous original 1974 film, this latest edition of the slasher horror revives the infamous cannibalistic Leatherface who is now old and lives in hiding. And with recent reboots and remakes of these franchises and newer additions to the genre, we now find ourselves in a new generation of terrifying but gripping stories of a maniacal killers haunting and hounding multiple victims. Blockbuster franchises like Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Scream, and similar others that followed that trope defined the Golden Age of the slasher genre from the 70s through the early 00s.
The story of “guests in a remote mansion menaced by a killer in a grotesque mask” explored in the film became a trope and a template for an exhaustive list of slasher thrillers that Hollywood holds in its treasure. The Old Dark House of 1932 is often believed to be the first Hollywood slasher, but it would be fair to say, that the 1926 silent film, The Bat, was what paved the way for "old dark house" films and made this genre popular and successful in the years that followed.
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