After a decent 2003 remake and an abysmal 2006 prequel, the Texas Chainsaw franchise is attempting to finally head back to its origins with the upcoming Texas Chainsaw 3D.
The film serves as a direct sequel to the 1974 original, and will follow a group of ill-fated friends on a road trip to the house after one of them inherits it from a long lost grandparent. Obviously, things don’t turn out well: you can expect lots of chainsaws, death, and a dude that wears other people’s faces. Creepy.
Lionsgate has just released a new trailer for the film, so check it out below, and let us know what you think! I’m certainly interested to see how this one fares, being a proper sequel to the 1974 classic!
Lionsgate’s TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic left off in Newt, Texas, where for decades people went missing without a trace. The townspeople long suspected the Sawyer family, owners of a local barbeque pit, were somehow responsible. Their suspicions were finally confirmed one hot summer day when a young woman escaped the Sawyer house following the brutal murders of her four friends. Word around the small town quickly spread, and a vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer stronghold, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family–or so they thought. Decades later and hundreds of miles away from the original massacre, a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew she had. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars…
Texas Chainsaw 3D opens on January 4th.