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Leatherface Prequel Finally Getting Released This October
Despite debuting in one of the greatest horror films of all-time – and being one of the grandfathers of the entire slasher sub-genre – Leatherface hasn’t exactly had the greatest track record when it comes to quality.
While Tobe Hooper’s oddball Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Jeff Burr’s surprisingly good TCM 3 have their fans, 1994’s TCM: The Next Generation is widely considered one of the worst horror sequels ever, and is a film stars Matthew McConcaughey and Renee Zellweger would really rather that interviewers not bring up.
Opinions of Marcus Nispel’s 2003 TCM remake fall along a wide range, with some holding it up as one of the better horror remakes of the 2000s, while others dismiss it as an overly glossy redo of an infamously raw and low-budget production.
2006’s TCM: The Beginning – a prequel to the remake – and especially 2013’s Texas Chainsaw 3-D – which confusingly attempts to be a direct sequel to Hooper’s original, while managing to completely destroy the timeline – draw almost nothing but disgust and vitriol from fans of the franchise.
That all brings us to Leatherface, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s (Inside) attempt to make their own prequel, this time to the original classic. The plot centers on four escaped psychopaths and the unfortunate asylum nurse that they take hostage and force to come along for the ride.
One of the four psychos is a teenage version of Leatherface, although which one that is isn’t clear from the start. Leatherface was shot back in 2015, and has been sitting on Lionsgate’s shelf for two years. Recently, producer Christa Campbell took to Twitter to announce that the movie will finally see release this October.
To all our leatherface fans out there. The movie will be released in October #texaschainsaw @latigrobman #LEATHERFACE pic.twitter.com/WFbuzyVJSX
— christa campbell (@christacampbell) May 13, 2017
Of course, we still don’t know why exactly Leatherface has been held back for so long. Is the movie just really, really bad? With Bustillo and Maury in charge, that’s a bit hard to imagine. Is the movie just so gory and depraved that even Lionsgate didn’t want to release it? For the sake of our genre, let’s hope it’s more the latter than the former.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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