Netflix has announced a February 18, 2022 premiere date for the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, which is coming to us from producers Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues, the duo behind the Don’t Breathe movies and the 2013 version of Evil Dead. Along with the release date news comes a couple images from the film, which Entertainment Weekly got the first look at. The images can be seen below.
Directed by David Blue Garcia from a screenplay by Chris Thomas Devlin, this Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a “decades later” sequel to the original film (watch that one HERE) – Alvarez told Entertainment Weekly that the film doesn’t go out of its way to disregard other sequels that have come before.
When I say ‘direct sequel’ I wouldn’t say it skips everything. When movies do that, sometimes it feels a bit disrespectful to all the other films. Some people love Texas Chainsaw 2. I love a lot of things about that movie — it’s so wacky and of its time. But the rest is such a mess canon-wise. I think it’s up to you to decide when and how the events of the other movies happen.”
Shot in Bulgaria, this film stars Elsie Fisher, Sarah Yarkin, Nell Hudson, and Jacob Latimore as
a group of friends who make the mistake of traveling too far away from the big city.
As Yarkin told EW,
Me and my business partner Dante [played by Latimore] are these young hip people that come to this ghost town in Texas and try to get other people to come there and make it the next hip place to be. Our fatal flaw is that we ignore the history that came before us.”
Fisher added that this Texas Chainsaw Massacre “mixes a lot of important real-life issues with horror themes”. Alvarez said,
I think the first movie really hit a nerve when portraying that culture clash between the countryside and the city. Back in the ’70s, 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 addition to the actors mentioned above, the cast includes Moe Dunford, Jessica Allain, Sam Douglas, William Hope, Jolyon Coy, and Alice Krige, with Olwen Fouéré as Sally Hardesty and Mark Burnham as Leatherface.
To read a lot more quotes about this Texas Chainsaw Massacre, click over to Entertainment Weekly. Here are the first look images: