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This is very much a Texas Chainsaw movie through a modern lens though. John Larroquette returns to provide the opening narration that brings any newcomers up to speed with Leatherface's legacy, while you'll also be able to spot the original chainsaw used in certain sequences. There are some other neat nostalgic touches in this legacy sequel though for fans to savour. Without the original actor, it's no different to a remake recasting a classic character and there's no real connection. It's never just about the character, but the character and the actor playing them. Halloween works because it's Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode decades later, and the same goes for the likes of Neve Campbell in Scream. She can look at the photo of her friends from 1973 (which Sally does a lot) and namecheck them, but it never quite lands as it's meant to. Through no fault of Fouéré, the comeback falls flat as we just don't have the emotional connection that we might have done had this movie been made a decade earlier with Burns. Marilyn Burns passed away in 2014, so Olwen Fouéré takes over the role of Sally Hardesty, the sole survivor of Leatherface's 1973 massacre.

Since this is a legacy sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre also has to bring back a previous survivor, but for reasons out of the filmmakers' control, it doesn't quite have the same impact. Unfortunately for them, one building is still occupied and one of its residents is pretty handy with a chainsaw. Melody (Sarah Yarkin), her sister Lila (Elsie Fisher) and their friends Dante (Jacob Latimore) and Ruth ( Nell Hudson) are planning to bring the remote town of Harlow, Texas back to life with a group of new investors. Leatherface (now played by Mark Burnham) has effectively lain dormant since then, but a group of young friends are about to change that. Texas Chainsaw Massacre picks up around 50 years after the end of the first movie and while it doesn't totally disregard every sequel, that's about where the links to the previous movies end.

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That one didn't quite work and neither did a prequel movie with EastEnders star Sam Strike as the iconic serial killer, so it's time for another shot at it on Netflix. Leatherface has actually been here before with 2013's Texas Chainsaw 3D acting as a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's horror classic. Like Halloween and Scream before it, it's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's turn to get a legacy sequel to reboot the franchise for a new generation.