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‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Actor Reprises Iconic Role for Warbeast’s New Video
“The weed is family.”
The members of metal band Warbeast are clearly huge fans of Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre, as they’ve got a whole song on their new album that’s dedicated to one of its most iconic characters. The song, found on Enter the Arena, is titled “Hitchhiker,” and the lyrics are based on Nubbins Sawyer himself.
For their music video for “Hitchhiker,” Warbeast put together a full-on, nearly twenty-minute tribute to Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which sees the members of the band recreating the opening of the 1974 classic. Coolest of all, the video stars TCM‘s Edwin Neal, reprising the Hitchhiker role after 40+ years!
“I’ve actually had this idea of using Ed Neal for a music video for a long time,” vocalist Bruce Corbitt told Metal Injection. “So after we knew for sure that we were going to include a song called “Hitchhiker” on the new Warbeast album, the timing was right to make this old idea become a new reality.”
“The lyrics for the song are based on Ed’s character from the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” he continued. “But this short film/music video is not related to that movie plot in any way. This is really just a silly script and a band having fun working on our final project together. Ed was a complete professional and great to work with… and we are excited to have him starring in this.”
May not be your cup of tea, but it sure is cool to see Neal playing the Hitchhiker again!
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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