TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE TRAILER MOVIE
The trailer does showcase some impressive shots of Leatherface and his signature chainsaw kills, but only the full movie experience will tell if the story will break new ground or if it will rest too comfortably on the latest horror trends.Amidst the sea of slashers that came out from the early 1970s onward, The Texas Chain Saw Massacrestands as one of the more heralded and unique entries in the genre. Sequel/reboots seem to be the new order of the day in classic horror franchise revivals, a move that can reshape our appreciation of the other entries the upcoming movie jumps over to establish a direct sequel to the original. There’s a lot to look out for in Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which premiers on February 18, 2022. The trailer show’s some of the killings are there to rub that demographic’s nose in the proverbial shit, but it would do well to remember that the idea’s already been tackled a few times and quite well (especially in Candyman). There was some of this in 2021’s Wrong Turn reboot and in Nia da Costa’s 2021 Candyman reboot/sequel. There seems to be an interest in poking fun at ‘woke millennials’ that move into places to reshape them in their image, robbing them of their identity and economic composition. It can also be it’s least interesting if it takes from Laurie’s too freely.Īnother element that felt all too familiar in the trailer is Leatherface’s new selection of victims. How Sally’s trauma unfolds is perhaps one of the new movie’s most promising aspects.
It became obsessive and basically inspired her own daughter to keep her from infiltrating her own family. That said, Laurie’s preparedness comes at the cost of her relationship with her family. It remains to be seen how Sally behaves in the midst of her tormentor’s reappearance, but the connective tissue that ties her to Laurie is pretty apparent. Like Halloween’s Laurie, Sally takes her trauma and turns it into a cause for personal protection, weapons training, and righteous retribution. Sally is a shotgun-ready survivor that’s been waiting for news of Leatherface’s resurgence to put on her cowboy hat and go out on a hunt of her own. There appears to be an interest in treating returning characters in the same way as those seen battling Michael Myers in the more recent showings. This is where Texas Chainsaw Massacre starts to feel too similar to the latest Halloween flicks.
This time around, Sally takes a full page from the Laurie Strode playbook, as seen in 2018’s Halloween, and ventures out to find her monster with a mind for bloody vengeance. She drives off into the sunset in the back of a pick-up truck, laughing and screaming as Leatherface flails away with his chainsaw.
One of the most interesting aspects of the trailer is the return of character Sally Hardesty (played by Olwen Fouéré), the final girl from the 1974 movie. Or, at the very least, privileged people moving in to remake the ghost town into a haven for career baristas and content creators (one of which gets chainsawed at the end of the trailer after threatening to ‘cancel’ Leatherface, phone in hand).
Of course, this sets up one of the movie’s main metaphorical evils: gentrification. It’s as if the movie’s director David Blue García wanted to show the horror icon and his world have been largely depleted and forgotten (despite the many sequels and reboots the franchise has seen throughout the years at a pretty consistent rate).
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