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On October 11, 1974, Tobe HoopersThe Texas Chainsaw Massacrewas released.
The story of Leatherface and his macabre home and family has been cemented into our imaginations.
Of course, not all tales of pop cultures most enduring cannibal have been made equal.
And it has all amounted to one of the most unstable long-running series in horror.
Even Gunnar Hansen, the originals Leatherface, gets a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo as Boss Sawyer.
8.Texas Chainsaw Massacre(2022)
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Well, sometimes.Texas Chainsaw Massacredoesnt skimp on the gore and applies it even when it feels unnecessary.
Leatherface cutting his way through a bus of Try anything and youre canceled, bro!
Leatherface might get to trudge home at the end of the film, but the franchise certainly doesnt.
7.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning(2006)
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How did Leatherface get his first skin mask?
Where did he get his chain saw?)
as an excuse for more brutal mayhem.
If anything,The Beginningwas an attempt to lead a bloodletting arms race.
6.The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre(1995)
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Sadly, most of us still havent listened.
5.Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III(1990)
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New Line, riding high off its profitableNightmare on Elm Streetfranchise, offered theChainsawseries its first taste of gloss.
4.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(2003)
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3.Leatherface(2017)
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Is the man-who-would-be-Leatherface the hulking Bud, the manic Ike, or the frantic and traumatized Jackson?
2.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2(1986)
- into a lunatic symbol of capitalistic hunger.
The weirdness is shared throughout.
1.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(1974)
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