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Gunnar Hansen’s ‘Chain Saw Confidential’ – The Other ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Movie in the Works
The horror world is being dominated today by Netflix’s official trailer for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a brand new legacy sequel that’s coming exclusively to Netflix on February 18.
That movie is a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s original classic, the franchise once again going back in time rather than charting a course forward. As you may recall, 2013’s Texas Chainsaw 3D was similarly a “legacy sequel” to the original, while the more recent Leatherface was a prequel story delving into the horror icon’s origins. Both of these movies came in the wake of a remake, a prequel to that remake, and a string of oddball sequels that rarely had anything to do with each other, all of them coming together to form one hell of a confusing franchise.
And Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre isn’t even the only new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie on the way. Back in May 2021, it was announced that original Leatherface actor Gunnar Hansen‘s book Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie was being turned into a feature film, you may recall.
Published in 2013, the late Gunnar Hansen‘s book went deep into the making of Tobe Hooper‘s horror classic, and Kirk Shaw’s Ambitious Entertainment and Yvette Yates Redick and Shaun Redick’s Impossible Dream Entertainment are joining forces to bring that true story to life.
“Chain Saw Confidential is being mounted as a dark comedy,” Deadline reported last May. They added, “Hansen’s book has been adapted by David Dubos, and purports to bring to the screen all the fun, horror and craziness from the making of the original seminal 1974 Tobe Hooper-directed horror film that cost $140,000 and grossed north of $30 million, spawning knock offs and numerous noisy and bloodier franchise extensions.”
The making of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was infamously a hellish experience, with the cast and crew braving the hot Texas sun to bring to the screen one of the most truly horrifying horror movies ever put to film. This should make for one hell of a movie, to say the least.
Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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