Leatherface here, purports to have an update on TX25 aka Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Latest One. I’m sorry if I sound skeptical, but I’ve been seeing really shitty sequels to this series for a long time, and well... I love the first film. Hell, I friggin own the chair that Marilyn Burns was tied down in, I grew up with people that owned all the furniture, I was given a little TYKO chainsaw when I was a kid and I was a madman with it..... BUT I don’t need another sequel. But if one were to be made, I’d challenge them to make a more taut and horrific film. Don’t get blinded by the Leatherface character, set it as a period film, let them evil bastards win, and end it with a family eating their ‘Bar-B-Que’. That’s the real horror of the franchise, not a guy running around with a chainsaw. Get John McNaughton to direct it, and scare the shit out of today’s giggle audiences.
As we embark on our movie going adventures this year, we must constantly remind ourselves that this is our last movie going year of the millennium. Because of this, we expect a year full of seminal treats that will constantly remind us years from now that 1999 was a film geek's paradise.
1999 brings forth the 25th anniversery of one of the most seminal genre films in geek history. I am of course talking about Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Being that it is the 25th anniversary and the end of the millennium, Unipix Entertainment has bought the rights to the franchise. Pre production is in full swing on an anniversary sequel entitled The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:TX25. The film will be unleashed either late this summer or fall, and the best part is that Tobe Hooper will be involved, but his position on the project is currently undetermined. Last I heard, he was in negotiations to direct.
Unipix released an official statement about the project late last year, and pre-Production is apparently going smoothly. Hopefully this sequel will go back to it's roots, instead of trying to reinvent itself with the current 90210 horror trend.
Call me Leatherface.
