A new trailer for the latest installment in the long-running Texas Chainsaw Massacre series has been released. The film–simply titled Texas Chainsaw Massacre–arrives on Netflix on February 18.
“I think the first movie really hit a nerve when portraying that culture clash between the countryside and the city,” filmmaker Fede Álvarez (Don’t Breathe), who co-conceived the story, told Entertainment Weekly. “Back in the ’70s [when the franchise began], the hippies were representing the youth of the city. This time, they’re more like millennial hipsters from Austin who are very entrepreneurial and have a dream of getting away from the city and back to the countryside. They’re trying to gentrify small-town America–and let’s just say they encounter some pushback.”
In the new trailer, which you can watch above, that conflict Álvarez describes is on full display–even more so than in the trailer released back in December. According to an official synopsis for the film, “influencers looking to breathe new life into a Texas ghost town encounter Leatherface, an infamous killer who wears a mask of human skin.”
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is produced by Álvarez and directed by David Blue Garcia. It stars Alice Krige (Star Trek: First Contact), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), Nell Hudson (Victoria), William Hope (Aliens), and Sarah Yarkin (Happy Death Day 2U).There’s also a new game adaptation of the franchise–The Texas Chain Saw Massacre–in the works that will launch on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC. The game will be an asymmetrical multiplayer horror title based on the classic 1974 horror film.
Source: Gamespot
