The film’s protagonists are Melody, a young entrepreneur (played Sarah Yarkin), and her teenaged sister Lila (Elsie Fisher). Distressed over her possible eviction, the woman succumbs to a fatal heart attack. She lives there with her large adult son, Leatherface – a psycho, in the parlance of Hitchcock. There’s a dispute with an old woman over the ownership of a house. Fans of 14th-century Italian poetry will be hip to the allusion. They’re idealists, with a notion of revitalizing the ghost town. It begins with carload of young influencers arriving in the deserted Texas village of Harlow. The screenplay here is based on a story developed by Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues, the creative team behind 2013′s Evil Dead and 2016′s Don’t Breathe. (Think Jamie Lee Curtis’s character in last year’s Halloween Kills, but with a southern drawl.) Sally keeps a snapshot of the old gang on her to keep the bloodlust alive. She’s played by Olwen Fouéré now – a hardboiled cowgirl hellbent on avenging the slaughter of her friends all those decades ago. A sepia-toned news brief is meant to heighten the fright by establishing a true-crime conceit.īeyond the Larroquette-voiced narrator and the maniac Leatherface, the other character brought back is Sally Hardesty, the lone survivor of the first massacre. Yana Blajeva/Legendary / Courtesy of Netflixĭavid Blue Garcia’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre acknowledges the Tobe Hooper-directed original by bringing back John Larroquette to narrate the opening of the film, as he did in 1974. Olwen Fouéré as Sally Hardesty in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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