Texas Chainsaw Massacre

  • 05 Mar - 11 Mar, 2022
  • Mag The Weekly
  • TV TIME

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original, although it’s set in the current day, so timelines and continuity are all smudgy. Harlow, Texas. This place is a time capsule. Nothing has changed except for a mass exodus of most of the population. In an old gas station, a video on the TV details the story of unsolved murders from 1973. The one where the guy wearing someone else’s face on top of his own face got a little nutty with the power tools. Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouere) was the lone survivor; she became a Texas Ranger who spent her life trying to find the guy who cut up her friends. But Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not about Sally. It’s about four millennials who aren’t entirely terrible people. Melody (Sarah Yarkin) and Dante (Jacob Latimore) are entrepreneurs brokering Harlow’s boarded-up storefronts in hopes of refurbing a ghost town into a hipster haven with restaurants, art galleries and comic book stores. Along for the ride are Lila (Elsie Fisher), Melody’s younger sister, and Ruth (Nell Hudson), Dante’s girlfriend. Our cheery protags have arranged a busload to assemble on the dusty Main St., where the properties will be auctioned off. First order of business is to head on up to the second floor of the old orphanage and pull down that Confederate flag before the people with the money eyeball it.

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