As you can tell, this new Texas Chainsaw Massacre is going the route of the 2018 Halloween movie, which serves as a sequel to the very first film, while ignoring all the other movies in the franchise that were made over the last half-century. Also exactly like Halloween and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode, the new Massacre stars the first film’s final girl, Sally Hardesty (originally played by Marilyn Burns, who passed away in 2014; Olwen Fouéré stars in the role here), who’s been waiting 48 years for a rematch with the killer. Which means that the maniac behind the mask is quite a bit older as well, and almost certainly 70 years old at minimum. It should be easy for a bunch of reasonably fit 20-somethings to escape his clutches as long as, say, they don’t get on a bus with a gross man carrying a chainsaw and then decide to film him with their phones instead of popping out the emergency exits. But what are the chances of that happening?
Directed by David Blue Garcia from a story by the Evil Dead reboot’s Fede Álvarez andRodo Sayagues, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre premieres February 18 on Netflix.
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