Bloody face of a maniac. Ed Gein (Ed Gein) - the true story of the maniac Leatherface

June 20, 2012 MidnightMan

Leatherface 1974

This anti-hero of a considerable number of horror films was originally invented based on the real-life American maniac Ed Gein, who gained widespread fame in the United States. Thus, the mask is made from human skin on the face of a madman was transferred to the screens for the first time in 1974 in feature film"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" directed by . The character was created by screenwriter Kim Henkel and, accordingly, the director mentioned above.

According to Tobe Hooper, this man portrayed a kind of big child who unconditionally obeys the orders of his family, committing all the murders out of fear of feeling strangers in his home. In this version, the maniac was played by actor Gunnar Hansen, who confirmed in an interview the director’s words spoken in relation to his character.

Leatherface 1986

The cycle of screen works in which Leatherface appears must be divided into two stages: a series that dates back to 1974, and a restart in 2003. However, the portly villain with a buzzing chainsaw was always a cannibal, like his always accompanying relatives, and also never died, at least not clearly. And all the time, the plots consisted of approximately a single plot: a group of young people drives through the desert area of ​​Texas, where, by chance, they come across a mansion with maniacs. Well, then: the oppressive gloomy walls of the creepy monastery, claustrophobia, the painful green-brown faded background of the scenery, hopelessness, sadism, the buzzing saw chain.

In the cult original “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” the character lived in a house strewn with the bones of human victims. Here he had an older brother, Drayton Sawyer, who owned a gas station and was known as the Cook or Old Man. The movie family also consisted of Nubbins Sawyer, the Hitchhiker, and Grandpa (Grandpa). Leatherface looked like a massive, downtrodden madman in an apron, obediently enduring the urging kicks and taunts of those around him, who demanded he kill the visiting guests.

Leatherface 1990

The same director Tobe Hooper's 1986 sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, took on a darkly humorous tone that poked fun at some of the original's iconic moments, such as the state's covert cannibalism. commercial purposes by Drayton Sawyer. A number of Leatherface’s relatives were also introduced into history. In addition, the families of antiheroes were opposed positive character- Sheriff Lefty, in order to present the audience with a duel with chainsaws in the end. In general, the film has undergone a number of alterations that differ from the original director’s vision, therefore, in some places there is an imbalance between humor and horror, but without obvious conflicts between the two directions.

Leatherface (1994)

For the third time, the world received a sequel entitled “Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III,” released in 1990. Director Jeff Burr chose to make Leatherface more sinister, silent, strong, independent than before. In place of the destroyed family (except for the mummified remains of the grandfather) from the former part, the killer was given shelter by no less crazy maniacs, equally engaged in robbing passers-by and cannibalism. A new and improved chainsaw was presented as a gift with the proud philosophical inscription “The saw is a family.” Moreover, this time Leatherface was driving a jeep in a hunt for unwitting guests. The role of Tex, one of the cannibals, was played by Viggo Mortensen, which becomes a curious fact in the filmography of the now famous Hollywood actor.

Kim Henkel

When the time came for the next sequel, one of the founders of the entire series, Kim Henkel, who directed “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation” of 1994, got down to business. The film was a failure, unsaid, chaotic, and confusing many logical chains. But that was it whole line reasons that anyone can glean by going to the official English-language website dedicated to this project with many significant interviews from all film crew. And I would like to talk about this in more detail.

Firstly, initially Kim Henkel (as a screenwriter, producer and director) did not want to stage another continuation of the story, but intended to produce a remake-reinterpretation of the theme from the very bottom. This picture promised to be what Tobe Hooper did not allow in his time. working together 70s. All the written characters introduced into the film, in fact, play up the former personalities of the original in new interpretation, for example, the lame Vilmer is a prototype of the restless hitchker.

Secondly, on foreground, of course, the glaring fact sticks out for many that the maniac Leatherface gradually goes through a series of mental and visual metamorphoses, subsequently turning into a transvestite in women's dress. Here, there is a completely adequate answer, which not everyone was able to notice. The fact is that in the very first version, Leatherface had three sets of masks. As conceived by the creators, they were called: “Killing Mask”, “Grandmother Mask”, and “Pretty Woman Mask”. Gunnar Hansen shares the story that for a maniac with a chainsaw, the mask became a mental switch, forcing him to completely change the structure of his behavior, getting used to the chosen guise. So, in rethinking ideas, Henkel more clearly pointed out the tripartite nature of Leatherface’s sick mind, revealing different masks - radically different personalities in one body. This is especially noticeable when Leatherface appears in "Grandma's Mask" - downtrodden, scared, screaming, humiliated. When he puts on the “Mask of a Beauty,” he is a completely different person, embodied right down to the dress. Thus, the “feminine” image does not stand out from general history, this is just a clearly defined cut of a totally crazy character. Robert Jacks, who plays the chainsaw-wielding maniac in this role, fully agrees with this.

Leatherface 2006

And thirdly, due to disagreements with the studio and distributors, who did not accept the special author’s view, the original “pure” brainchild of Kim Henkel was shown only once in the cinema, and then underwent a noticeable modification - adjustment to the dictates, and therefore lay on the shelf, has not yet been released on video cassettes in that there is an opportunity to see on television screens, represented by the fourth sequel, in some places very similar to the original due to the “choked” remake.

There are three interesting moments in this film: the presence of the then unknown Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey in two central roles, the refusal of the actor from the first story to play the cameo role of a grandfather, but in the epilogue there is fleeting phenomenon pairs of members of the 70's version: an orderly and a woman who were Franklin (the wheelchair user) and Sally (the main character).

Actually, the first series ends on such an unsuccessful, unfinished note, giving way to a new generation of directors and screenwriters who have made slightly different films in terms of rhythm and content, but also tell the story of a Texas family of cannibals. Here, Leatherface is depicted as visually strong and dark, with a greater emphasis on the narrative of his personality.

In 2003, the reboot began with the film “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” directed by Marcus Nispel. Here the viewer learns Leatherface's real name - Thomas Brown Hewitt, as well as his birthday - August 7, 1939. His adoptive mother is Luda May Hewitt, who decided to raise a child with a physical defect. Actually, because of this, his childhood was filled with bullying from his peers, which became another drop in the vat of deep mental disorder.

A couple of years later, in 2006, the prequel “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” was released. and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" directed by Jonathan Liebesman. This time the director showed the starting point, the formation of a Texas family on the path of murder and cannibalism, associated with social and economic overtones. The story also contains revealing footage of Thomas Hewitt’s metamorphosis, when he first put on a mask made of human skin, becoming Leatherface.

In addition to these on-screen works, numerous comics about the character Leatherface have been published, his appearance has long been used for parodies with a man hoisting a working, buzzing chainsaw above his head, in insane ecstasy, and interest has not subsided to this day, when another version of the story about a Texan with a mask on his face, should personify in a horror movie the beginning of unbridled crazy chaos, without grace and elegant tact, which uses the effect of horror in the path of outright horror of physical rectilinear reprisal that awaits the heroes somewhere around the next dusty bend of an empty village road. It can also more than be attributed to those screen phobias that are associated with the so-called “inhospitable hinterland”, inhabited by semi-wild, dirty residents who in every possible way only dream of making fun of visiting townspeople.

Leatherface (real name Thomas Brown Hewitt) is a psychopathic killer, main character The Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series. It gained a second wave of popularity after the release of a remake in 2003 (the very first film in the series dates back to 1974). And in 2006, a sequel to the film was released, from which viewers learned the backstory of the maniac, as well as how his family became addicted to cannibalism.

Birth

Thomas Hewitt was born in 1939 in a slaughterhouse to a woman named Sloane. Her boss immediately took the child to the dumpster. Presumably he was the boy's father, since he was in intimate relationships with Sloane while she was intoxicated. The baby was discovered by Luda May, who was looking for food in the trash. She took the baby into her family.

Before the town was emptied by the factory's closure, the Hewitts worked at the mill. But with the onset of famine, they began to engage in kidnapping and cannibalism.

Thomas's diseases

Hewitt's face is deformed and he suffers from a skin disease that has almost completely destroyed his nose. To hide this, Thomas Hewitt wears a small leather mask. At the age of 12, doctors recognized the boy as mentally retarded. Due to his intellectual and physical disabilities, he was constantly bullied at school (in the original series this fact not mentioned).

First murder

Hewitt works in the same factory where he was born many years ago. However, he knows nothing about his real ancestry. Soon the sanitary inspectorate closes the factory and the supervisor and director order Hewitt to leave. He ignores their orders, and the men begin to shout, insulting Leatherface in every possible way. In a fit of rage, Thomas kills the director using a hammer as a weapon. It is only later that he finds a chainsaw, which he uses as the main murder weapon.

Winston Hoyt (the local sheriff) arrives at the Hewitt farm to arrest Thomas. There he is killed by the maniac's uncle, Charlie. Before this, he tells the law enforcement officer that his nephew is not mentally retarded, it’s just that no one understands him. Charlie takes the place of sheriff, taking on the uniform and name of a servant of the law. Having gained power in the district, the Hewitts hunt random visitors. Thomas basically kills everyone, and the family members just become accomplices.

Unsolved crime

In fact, Thomas is being manipulated by the Hewitt family. But in the remake they care about him a lot more than in the original series. IN new picture the last survivor was Eirin Hardesty. While pursuing the girl, Thomas loses his arm. Thanks to this, Eirin manages to get to the police station. Authorities immediately go to the Hewitt farm. There they discover the remains of 33 people. Thomas Hewitt himself escapes, killing two representatives of the law who were documenting the crime scene. The maniac's case remains unsolved.

Behavior and weapons

Due to violations in mental development Thomas cannot speak and behaves inappropriately. When moving, it makes grunting sounds and dances. Despite this feature, all family members perfectly understand the killer when he communicates with them. Often Thomas behaves like Small child who does not fully understand his actions.

It also turned out that most local residents were aware of the Hewitts’ bloody adventures. But they tried not to interfere in family affairs. Residents either periodically helped in situations with visitors, or completely ignored what was happening. So, in the film there is a scene where the victim runs into a bar, where Thomas soon arrives. None of the people present there prevented the killer from killing the man.

Hewitt's weapon of choice is a chainsaw. With her help, he not only gets rid of his victims, but also overcomes the obstacles encountered along the way. Auxiliary items Thomas's arsenal includes: a meat hook, an axe, a knife and a hammer.

Comics

There is a sequel to the remake in comics from Wildstorm Comics. It says that after escaping from the farm, the family of cannibals moved to Travis County (Texas), where they settled in sewer tunnels.

At the end of the 2003 film, Thomas Hewitt lost his arm. In the comics, old Monty helped make the maniac a prosthetic in the form of a hook secured with a belt. Leatherface began using it to kill people.

Also in comics short stories. For example, the story of Hewitt's childhood. At that time, Thomas drew in a notebook and hunted animals to make clothes out of them. Once a boy named Jesse and his friends threw stones at Hewitt. Then the future maniac decided to take revenge - he unexpectedly attacked the young man and killed him.

It's pretty clear from the comic that the Hewitt family doesn't really care about what happens to Thomas. Uncle Charlie helps the boy get rid of Jesse's body, but at the same time reprimands him: “You must correct the consequences of your own actions yourself.”

• The real face of the maniac was never shown in the films. He always wears a mask made from the skin of animals or his victims.
• Thomas Hewitt's height in centimeters is unknown. But from the film it is clear that this is a tall man who suffers from excess weight.
• got the role of the killer simply by talking to producer Michael Bay at a Christmas party.
• The remake reveals the story of Thomas Hewitt, while the maniac from original painting she's not there.
• In the new film, Leatherface wields a lot of weapons.
• We can say that Thomas Hewitt - real character, because his prototype was this American body snatcher and necrophiliac who became practically the most famous serial killer in US history.

Not having lived to see the premiere of the new film, this article is also another opportunity to pay tribute to the man who introduced the world to the killer nicknamed Leatherface and his crazy family.

Hooper's original painting was preceded by the title " based on real events ", which was still quite a fresh technique for the 70s of the last century. This kind of thing will no longer surprise or frighten a modern viewer - too often the notorious "real events" turn out to be far-fetched by the promoters of this or that film. And in 1974 "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" shocked the public seriously and for a long time. The film was considered extremely cruel - although in fact practically no violence was shown on camera, all the most terrible things remained BEHIND the scenes. And almost immediately after the premiere, rumors began to spread that There DID live a crazy man in Pot, Texas, who killed people with a chainsaw, and that he actually lived with several equally crazy relatives.

Still from the film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974).

Is it true, quick check the dates made it clear that these rumors are just rumors. The fact is that the film itself claimed that the terrible events described in it happened in reality August 18, 1973. However, in fact, filming of the film ended four days before the specified date, and, you see, it is quite difficult to make a film based on events that have not yet occurred :)

However, there was a very real maniac who loved to wear human skin, and his story partially inspired the creators of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre... and a number of other films.

Edward Theodore Gin or simply Ed Gin (Ed Gein, the maniac’s surname is often transcribed in Russian as "Gein") was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse, western Wisconsin, and most spent his life as a reclusive loner. His father was an alcoholic (George Philip Gean) and his mother was a religious fanatic (Augusta Wilhelmina Lehrke), so Ed suffered through both physical and psychological abuse as a child. His former classmates they remembered Ed as an introverted guy with rather strange habits. For example, young Ed could suddenly laugh without any reason, as if someone invisible had told him an extremely funny joke.

Ginov Farm.

Ginov Farm.

Ed's mother openly despised his father, but did not divorce on religious grounds. Being a zealous Lutheran, Augusta raised Ed and his brother Henry in fear of the Lord's punishment, fostered in her sons distrust of women and hatred of everything related to sex. The family lived on a remote farm and, as they say, “kept to their roots.” Children were forbidden to bring guests into the house and make friends. And almost every day the brothers heard that they should never, ever fall in love.

Father of boys, deeply despised his own wife The alcoholic George lived like a fool and died on April Fools' Day, April 1, 1940. The cause of death was heart failure associated with his addiction to alcohol. Four years later, Ed's brother, Henry, died under mysterious circumstances. According to officials, he died while fighting a fire in one of the farm fields. It is known, however, that before this Henry quarreled with his mother - he did not like the way she influenced him. younger brother. On May 16, 1944, Ed and Henry were burning weeds, and when the fire spread attracted the attention of nearby residents, they called the sheriff - and Henry Gean’s body was found. Information about the condition of the corpse varies somewhat: according to some sources, no visible damage was found on the body; other sources say that bruises were found on the dead man’s face. Be that as it may, suffocation was named as the cause of death. However, no autopsy was performed... Henry's death was officially considered the result of an accident.

Ed Gin, photo:

Augusta died on December 29, 1945, leaving Ed Gean an orphan. He was very attached to his mother, was under the strong influence of Augusta and deeply experienced her death. Continuing to live on the farm alone, Ed made every effort to ensure that his mother’s room remained exactly the same as it was on the day of her death. He read a lot, and Gin was especially interested in books about Nazi atrocities and cannibalism. His favorite section in the local newspaper was the obituary page.

Leading the life of a recluse, Ed from time to time took on some hired work, including looking after the children of neighbors - those around him considered him “a little strange,” but nothing more. More than ten years will pass before the nightmarish secrets of the Gin farm become known to society.

Ed Gean's House of Nightmares:

On November 16, 1957, 58-year-old widow Bernice Worden, the owner of a local store, disappeared without a trace. Suspicion fell on Ed, who simply turned out to be the last person to see Bernice - the widow's son found a pool of blood and a receipt written out in Gin's last name. Cops raided the Gin farm, where they found Bernice's headless body hanging upside down in a barn. The search continued, and very soon the number of terrible finds increased exponentially. In the house, police found various human remains, including more than exotic items like a trash can made from a human skull or chairs upholstered in human skin. Plus, there is a wide selection of clothing made from the skin of young women: two pairs of tights, a corset, masks and a dress. Plus a belt made from women's nipples. The refrigerator was also filled with human remains, and a heart was found in one of the pots.

Bernice Warden's shop.

Ed later said that he dug up the corpses of women in the cemetery who looked like his mother to him. Between 1947 and 1952, he made his way to three local cemeteries about 40 times, but 30 times he returned from there with nothing, as he had time to recover. Gin admitted that after the death of his mother he dreamed of changing gender and it was for this purpose that he made and put on “costumes” from the skin of dead women. At the same time, Ed denied that he had sex with the corpses - the dead stank too much.

During a polygraph test, he also confessed to another murder committed earlier, in 1954 - the victim was the owner of the bar, Mary Hogan, whose corpse Gin dismembered. In communication with local residents Gin even joked then - they say that Mary stopped to stay with him, but no one took him and his words seriously.

Mary Hogan.

On November 21, 1957, Geen was arrested and charged with the murder of Bernice Worden. Ed confessed to two murders, but declared himself "not guilty" by reason of insanity. Gin was sent to the state's main hospital for mentally ill criminals for compulsory treatment. Six months later, on March 20, 1958, the Ginov house mysteriously burned down - in fact, many were sure that this was the result of arson, but it was not possible to prove anyone’s guilt.

Eleven years after his arrest, on November 7, 1968, doctors decided that Ed Gean was sane enough to stand trial again. He was found guilty on November 14, but new forensic tests into Ed's mental health showed that - by reason of insanity - he should be considered not guilty. Gin returned to the psychiatric hospital, where he lived out the rest of his days - he died at the age of 77, on July 26, 1984, from cancer, and was buried in the cemetery in the town of Plainfield.

Ed Gean's grave.

Finishing with the biography of the maniac, it is worth noting that Ed was suspected of several more murders, including two girls, 8 and 15 years old. But it was never possible to prove Gin’s involvement in the disappearance of these people.

Let's return to where we started this story - to the image of Gin in art. Ed's penchant for wearing masks and clothing made from human skin certainly inspired the character of the killer Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but Ed Geen's history with horror culture is not limited to this series of films. Back in 1959 he wrote his famous novel"Psychopath", which in 1960 was filmed in the form of a picture known as. Book and movie maniac Norman Bates owned a seedy motel and killed the girls who stayed there, while Bates, like Gin, suffered the death of his domineering, cruel mother. Several sequels and a remake were released, and the television series recently ended

Name: Leatherface (Bubba Sawyer)

A country: USA

Creator: Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel

Activity: Serial killer

Family status: not married

Leatherface: Character History

A character from the horror film series The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A murderous maniac raised by a family of cannibals. In each film in the series, Leatherface is confronted by a group of young people. Leatherface has a prototype - an American serial killer, necrophiliac and body snatcher.

Origin story

The films are partly based on real events. The prototype of Leatherface is the maniac Edward Gin, whose real story, of course, differs from the “cinema” version. Gin's father was an alcoholic and did not stay in any job for long. The religious mother took care of the household and did not divorce Father Gin, although she despised him.

The mother's religious fanaticism crippled the children's psyche. The woman saw sin and lust everywhere, forbade her sons to communicate with other people, did not let them leave the farm anywhere except for school, and pretty much brainwashed them that all women in the world, except herself, were whores. Guys were severely punished for trying to make friends.

Edward Gin, like the maniac in the films, was physically ugly, which is why Gin was teased by his classmates and was later not accepted into the army. Unlike the movie hero, Ed did not suffer from dementia and was a good student, but signs of mental illness appeared in him already in his teenage years. The guy felt sexually aroused while watching pigs being slaughtered.

Gin's first victim was his own brother Henry, who spoke critically of his mother and was planning to move in with the woman with whom he was having an affair. However, the police did not press charges due to lack of evidence. After the death of his mother, Ed Gin was left on the farm completely alone. The neighbors considered Gin a quiet eccentric, while he got into the habit of digging up and dismembering corpses in the cemetery.

Soon, fed up with the dead, Gin killed the owner of a local hardware store... The police quickly caught the maniac, so Gin did not have time to commit multiple murders, as in the films.

Biography

In the original series, the character goes by the name Bubba Sawyer. This is a role without words, and the viewer never sees the hero’s face without a mask. Tobe Hooper, the character's creator, admitted to documentary film, that he intended the image of the maniac Leatherface as a “big child”, whose will is completely subordinated to the elders in the cannibal Sawyer family.

The hero is accustomed to using a chainsaw, since he worked at a slaughterhouse before the events began. When strangers appear in the Sawyer house, the maniac feels fear and the threat posed by strangers, and therefore deals with them in his usual way. Leatherface is also afraid of his own family and does what his elders order.

Papa Sawyer is a cook who runs a diner at the Last Chance gas station. In this diner, visitors are fed meat from people killed by a cannibal family. The Sawyers themselves barbecue with human flesh and make dishes out of bones. Leatherface has a whole bunch of brothers, it's incredible old grandpa and Mom, who is chained to wheelchair, but this does not stop her from running the family. The maniac also somehow had a daughter, a little girl with no name, who also appears in films from time to time.

In the remakes, the maniac goes by the name Thomas Hewitt, and the story of the cannibal family is somewhat different from the original. Thomas's biological mother gave birth to a baby right at work and died after giving birth. The baby was already incredibly ugly at birth, so it was impossible to do without a mask in the future. The woman worked in a meat factory, and after her death, the boss threw the baby into the trash.

There, the future maniac was picked up by a beggar woman, who took the hero to the Hewitt house, where Thomas grew up. The Hewitts worked in a slaughterhouse, and after the slaughterhouse closed, they switched to human meat. They began to catch people and deal with them in a way that had become familiar over the years of working with meat carcasses. Mother Hewitt, just like in the original series, sells the meat of the victims in a gas station store.

Due to his external ugliness, Thomas is bullied at school, and the hero sews a leather mask for himself to hide his face underneath. In addition, the guy shows signs of a mental disorder - he does not speak, behaves inappropriately, and has an irresistible urge to self-harm.

When the meat factory is closed, Thomas kills the director in a fit of rage. The maniac's uncle then kills the sheriff, the only representative of the law in the area. And the surrounding area finds itself at the mercy of a family of cannibal killers.

Film adaptations

The first film in the series was released in 1974. The film was directed by Tobe Hooper and featured Icelander Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface. A group of young people travel in a van to Texas. Unknown vandals are opening graves across the state. The police are worried, and so are the young people - after all, their grandfather is buried there. The heroes want to make sure that grandfather’s grave is in order, and at the same time visit the old house.

On the way, the guys pick up a strange guy. He asks to drop him off at home, and at the same time invites him to visit his family for lunch. The heroes drop off a strange guy, but they still have to meet him and his family...

The second film was released by the same Tobe Hooper in 1986. The role of the maniac was played by actor Bill Johnson. Two teenagers go to Dallas for a Soccer game and along the way they end up on an abandoned highway in Texas. Both young men are driving a car, heavily drunk, amusing themselves by calling the radio to “troll” the presenter live, and do not know that a meeting lies ahead with Leatherface, who will end both of them. The murder case is being led by Lieutenant Enright, the uncle of the young people who became victims of Leatherface in the previous film...

In 1990, the film Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 was released, directed by Jeff Barr. The role of the maniac was played here American actor R.E. Mikhailoff. Texas authorities are checking vehicles entering the state. This is due to an emergency - a mass burial of corpses left by an unknown maniac was discovered.

Two young men in a Mercedes first get caught in a traffic jam at a checkpoint entering the state, but this is the least of the troubles they have to face. Ahead of the heroes is a psycho at a gas station armed with a gun, a dead coyote, a maniac in a leather mask and a family of cannibals.

In 1994, Kim Hankel, the screenwriter of the first “Massacre,” directed the fourth film in the series, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.” The role of Leatherface in the film is played by actor Robert Jacks.

A young girl leaves the prom in upset feelings - her boyfriend Barry was playing tricks with another girl. The heroine tries to drive away in a car, but her friends are already lurking in the back seat, and the villain Barry also joins her. As a result, four young people find themselves at night in the middle of the forest visiting insurance department agent Darla and a family of charming cannibals.

The next film in the series, this time from director Marcus Nispel, was released in 2003. This is a remake of the classic 1974 film. The role of Leatherface is played by American actor Andrew Bryniarski.

A group of young people travel to Dallas for a concert. On the way, the heroes almost run over a girl. She behaves strangely, and the guys try to take the girl to the hospital. But nothing comes of it - the strange girl commits suicide right before their eyes. Young people try to find the sheriff, but instead they find a whole district of strange characters who only think about how to kill the heroes in a more sophisticated way.

In 2006, the second part of the remake “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” from director Jonathan Liebesman was released. The film tells about the first victims of Leatherface and his family, who were four young people. The role of the maniac is played by the same Andrew Bryniarski.

Two brothers take their girlfriends on a road trip for one last bit of fun before they are both sent to serve in Vietnam. Meanwhile, in the town of Fuller, the director of a factory is killed and the local sheriff is looking for the culprit. Together with the maniac, the sheriff finds his own death, and the badge and uniform of the murdered law enforcement officer are appropriated by Leatherface's uncle, Charlie Hewitt, who is also not averse to killing someone. Young people will have to face the Hewitt family of cannibals.

In 2013, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released in 3D. This movie continues storyline the original 1974 tape. Leatherface is played by actor Dan Yeager.

The maniac is caught, and the local sheriff is trying to resolve the case according to the law, provide the criminal with a lawyer and hold a trial. However, an angry crowd of citizens does not want to wait. People want to hang Leatherface without trial, and then someone throws a Molotov cocktail at the cannibal family's house. Along with the house, those who were inside are burned in the fire - the maniac himself, his father and the rest of the family. The fiends are destroyed, but the killings begin to occur again. And the chainsaw comes into play again. Did the maniac really survive the fire? Or is the new criminal someone else? The sheriff is at it again...

The last film in the series was released in 2017 under the title “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Leatherface” with actor Sam Strike as a maniac. The plot is again centered on four young people, but this time the heroes are not innocent lambs, but escaped patients psychiatric clinic who took a nurse with them.

The image of the maniac Leatherface was transferred from films to comics. In the 90s of the twentieth century, a small series of comics “Jason vs. Leatherface” was published, where the famous maniac characters from the horror films “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” clashed.