How Netflix’s “Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath” Rewrites the Traditional Slasher Movie

Netflix’s newest horror launch takes a chainsaw to the basic slasher movie and comes out the opposite facet with a nightmarish story that, whereas terrifying, sparks an vital dialog.

Set within the tumbleweed city of Harlow, TX, the most recent version to the Leatherface franchise, “Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath,” takes a web page from the unique script, exhibiting a regular horror story by the eyes of a more moderen era. The story follows Melody (Sarah Yarkin); her sister, Lila (Elsie Fisher); Melody’s enterprise accomplice, Dante (Jacob Latimore); and Dante’s girlfriend, Ruth (Nell Hudson), as they step into the tiny city in pursuit of a brand new enterprise enterprise. Once they inadvertently uproot Leatherface from his residence and drive away his solely residing member of the family, the chainsaw rips, and nobody’s limbs are secure from what occurs subsequent. Livid Leatherface goes on a rampage by city, summoning Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouéré), the unique movie’s sole survivor, who’s hell-bent on getting revenge for her associates’ deaths nearly 50 years earlier.

Filled with gory chase scenes and blood-curdling screams, the trailer alone is sufficient to make us backflip over our sofas, distant in hand, and by no means return. Chainsaw-wielding serial killer in our residing rooms? No, thanks. Nonetheless, for horror-lovers, the movie — which is directed by “Tejano’s” David Blue Garcia — is rife with bounce scares and stunning twists that increase the little hairs on the again of our necks in a approach that is unusually satisfying.

“Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath” premieres on Netflix on Feb. 18. Learn on to listen to from Fisher and Yarkin about what it was prefer to take Leatherface on, how the movie subverts horror film stereotypes by its portrayal of sturdy ladies characters, and the way the onscreen sisters felt about that majorly sudden character loss of life.