So what’s the deal with Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre? It’s got pretty much the same title as a few other movies in the franchise, but where does it fit into the franchise timeline?

Well, much like Texas Chainsaw 3D, David Blue Garcia‘s Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, meaning the events of all other movies in the franchise – including the remake, of course – aren’t really a factor here. But does that mean all of the sequels have been erased from this latest timeline for the Leatherface saga?

Not exactly, producer Fede Alvarez explains in a new chat with Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast. He also lets us know what Leatherface has been up to since the early 1970s.

“You see a photo of young Leatherface… an old picture from the late 70s,” Alvarez teases when talking about the new movie. “The logic for me is that Leatherface, after the crimes of the original movie, just ran away. [His new mother figure] took pity on him… saw that he was mentally challenged and scared and probably did some terrible things.”

Alvarez continues, “She took him in under her wing. Probably… I think…. a lot of the movies that happened after [the original] still happened. He probably escaped, ya know. He was in and out of that place for a long time. I think she probably gave him enough chances as movies [that] happened. And then it got to a point that he settled down. He just stayed there.”

“It’s not his real mother,” Alvarez explains the new mother figure in Leatherface’s life, played by Alice Krige. “I don’t think she likes the Sawyers. I think she’s a really good lady. She hasn’t been doing anything bad. Anything wrong. She doesn’t want him to kill.”

You can listen to the Boo Crew’s full chat with Alvarez and David Blue Garcia below.

Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre slashes into streaming on February 18.