We knew from early on that Kane Hodder (who did stunt work on Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III) was doing the motion-capture performance for the Leatherface character in the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game from Gun Interactive and Sumo Nottingham – a game that is now available on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. Later we learned the names of the other mo-cap performers: Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs) as The Hitch-hiker; Troy Burgess (Swedish Dicks) as The Cook; Kristina Klebe (Don’t Kill It) as new killer character Sissy; Dove Meir (Dig) as new killer character Johnny; Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween), did the mo-cap for all of the female victim characters; and Hunter C. Smith (Lucky) did the mo-cap for all of the male victim characters. But the Grandpa character is in the game as well. Who did his mo-cap performance? As it turns out, Kane Hodder was also Grandpa!
The information on the Grandpa mo-cap performance came from Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night), who missed out on the mo-cap action but does provide the voice of Johnny. During an interview with the Cult FM podcast, Maffei said, “(Kane) also – a little trivia – he also did the mo-cap for Grandpa. Like with my character, they were just doing all the mo-cap at once, and they were like, ‘Oh shit, we don’t have a Grandpa!’ They were like, ‘Kane, sit in the chair! Do Grandpa, be Grandpa. Sit back and suck blood out of the thing.’ … I don’t think he remembered that. I think I reminded him that he did Grandpa. He was like, ‘Holy shit, yeah, yeah! I did that too!’“
Matches of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game pit 4 victim characters against 3 killer characters. The story of the game has the following set-up: When Maria Flores went missing, and local law enforcement seemed to stall out in their search, her younger sister Ana teamed up with some of Maria’s friends from college to pick up the trail. The game takes place before the events of director Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (watch it HERE).
Hooper’s co-writer Kim Henkel was involved with the development of the video game. Maffei heard that the characters of Sissy and Johnny came from the mind of Henkel and had been considered for inclusion in the original film.
Although Whalen did the mo-cap for the Hitch-hiker, Edwin Neal, who played the character in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, provided his voice for the game. You can find out more about the killer characters at THIS LINK and the victim characters HERE.
Have you been playing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game? What do you think of Kane Hodder’s Leatherface and Grandpa mo-cap performances? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below.
Here’s the Cult FM interview with Damian Maffei: