Quickly, the excitement might be again… from the individuals who gave you The Witch and Hereditary? Sure, consider it or not, A24 is at present in talks to create a tv collection primarily based on The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath. Glen Powell is at present set to government produce, as is Kim Henkel, who co-created the collection with the late Tobe Hooper. J.T. Mollner, who made final 12 months’s satisfying Stephen King adaption The Lengthy Stroll, will direct.
At first look, that collaboration appears unlikely, and never due to Powell. The title A24 is synonymous with “elevated” horror, scary motion pictures with excessive concepts and ambitions past grossing out viewers. With its garish title and (utterly made-up) true crime pretensions, 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath is an exemplar of the type of nasty, low-brow stuff that elevated horror was supposed to exchange. Nonetheless, the Texas Chainsaw collection has all the time had a self-aware, dare we are saying even mental streak, behind all of its blood and guts.
Nowhere is the franchise’s self-awareness extra obvious than within the second entry, The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath Half 2 from 1986. Partly out of spite for being pressured to return to his most well-known film, partly out of frustration that nobody noticed how humorous the primary film was, and partly as a result of he had an enormous funds (not less than by the requirements of the Cannon Group), Hooper made his sequel into an excessive comedy.
The movie barely cares about continuity from the primary entry, swapping out the hitchhiker from the primary film (Edwin Neal) with Invoice Moseley as Chop High. As a substitute, it goes for over-the-top sequences, culminating with Dennis Hopper as a vengeful sheriff who bellows a sermon whereas wielding a number of saws. And simply in case anybody didn’t get the joke, the movie’s poster pays homage to The Breakfast Membership, with Leatherface and Prepare dinner standing in for Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson.
