I think it's up to you to decide when and how the events of the other movies happen.
#The texas chain saw massacre 1974 story movie#
I love a lot of things about that movie – it's so wacky and of its time," he explained. "When movies do that, sometimes it feels a bit disrespectful to all the other films. If we get future movies in this timeline, it could be expanded to include previous sequels as producer and co-writer Fede Álvarez told EW that he has no intention of skipping what's come before. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) had a scene deleted, you know the bit when Sally is tied up and the Hitchhiker is trying to hit Sally over the head with his hammer, originally Grandpa gets his old knob out and starts jerking in Sally’s contorted face. She didn't "sink into catatonia" or die in 1977, but has actually spent almost 50 years itching for a Leatherface rematch. While the new movie doesn't completely ignore the sequels in the original timeline, it does retcon what they had told us about Sally. However, the big change here is that it's a legacy sequel that brings back Sally Hardesty, with Olwen Fouéré taking over the role from Marilyn Burns who passed away in 2014. In this cult horror classic, five friends pick up a traumatized young hitchhiker, and find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chain saw-wielding killer. It won't surprise you to know that we've got another direct sequel on our hands with Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
#The texas chain saw massacre 1974 story series#
Reboots just weren't a major thing yet, so if Leatherface was going to come back, the only approach was to keep calm and carry on, ignoring little things like whether or not he was killed off in the previous movie (like at the end of the sequel).Īs we mentioned though, if you really committed to the chronological approach, you'd have to keep going back to the original movie after watching each sequel (which could lead to real-life chainsaw-wielding madness) making it three separate timelines and not one overall timeline.Īnd so we come to the latest attempt to revive the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series for a modern audience. There's little to connect the numerous sequels of Nightmare on Elm Street, for instance, so it's not a major surprise that continuity wasn't really thought about here. However, it changes the surname of Leatherface's family from Sawyer to Slaughter (yes, really), so it's questionable if it even acts as a direct sequel to the first movie anyway.ĭespite the inconsistencies, you can still view these four movies as one timeline given that it's just what horror franchises originally did. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - Original Trailer (4K) Watch on. An idyllic Saturday afternoon drive through the Texas hill country becomes a nightmare for five teen-agers when they fall prey to a bizarre, cannibalistic family, and the masked, chainsaw-wielding monster, Leatherface. The fourth movie mentions "two minor, yet apparently related incidents" that happened after 1973, so it appears as though it sits within the same continuity as the previous two movies. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) August 18, 1973.
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