New Texas Chainsaw Massacre trailer revives a horror legend on Netflix

New Texas Chainsaw Massacre trailer revives a horror fable on Netflix

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Netflix has finally released the official trailer for its Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel – giving our first proper, blood-soaked look at Leatherface in 2022.

A directly sequel to 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (notation the infinite), this 9th installment in the long-running horror franchise will see the famous killer wreaking his customary havoc on a grouping of unsuspecting millennials in a Texas ghost town.

Emmy award-winning cinematographer David Bluish Garcia is on hand as the movie'due south manager, with Evil Expressionless and Don't Breathe filmmakers Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues in tow as producers. In short, expect blood, gore and leap scares aplenty.

You can bank check out the new trailer for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is scheduled to hit Netflix on February 18, 2022, below. And yes, that is a Tesla Model S in the teaser.

One of the most anticipated new horror movies of 2022, Texas Chainsaw Massacre will star 8th Grade lead Elsie Fisher alongside Sarah Yarkin, Jacob Latimore and Nell Hudson as a group of social media influencers who unwittingly stumble upon the skin-clad killer.

The trailer likewise gives the states our outset await at Olwen Fouéré as Sally Hardesty, who takes over from the belatedly Marilyn Burns in a role that has spanned several films in the franchise.

As for how Netflix'due south Texas Chainsaw Massacre will compare to its (now historic) predecessor, director Garcia told Entertainment Weekly: "I call up the [1979] picture really hit a nerve when portraying that civilization disharmonism between the countryside and the metropolis. Back in the '70s, the hippies were representing the youth of the city. This fourth dimension, they're more like millennial hipsters from Austin who are very entrepreneurial and have a dream of getting abroad from the city and back to the countryside.

"They're trying to gentrify small-town America," Garcia added, "and allow'south but say they encounter some pushback."

Like the original, and so, Texas Chainsaw Massacre looks set to intersperse moments of social commentary with its traditional slasher horror – though we get the feeling that almost viewers will be watching specifically for the latter.

Judging past this new trailer, likewise, it seems no expense has been spared in the violence section (encounter bus scene).

Analysis: A genre and franchise boost

Given how far (and frequently) Netflix movies accept come up in the last decade, information technology's not often that the streamer lacks for quality in a specific genre. A stellar catalogue of horror movies, though, has alluded Netflix thus far.

Certain, the visitor has commissioned several successful original scarers like Bird Box and the Fear Street trilogy in recent years, but horror remains a genre that hasn't enjoyed the same attention and, past extension, acclaim every bit others on the service.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre will, therefore, look to exhale new life into Netflix's horror offer, as well equally into the decades-erstwhile franchise it hopes to resurrect.

Speaking of which, Leatherface isn't the only iconic villain making a long-awaited return in 2022. Several other horror movie franchises are preparing to dust off the cobwebs – the likes of Jeepers Creepers, Hellraiser and Evil Dead are fix to follow Scream's lead with reboots and long-awaited sequels in the coming twelvemonth.

Hopefully, then, 2022 volition go along its horror firmly planted on our flick screens.

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