The Texas Chainsaw Massacre the first film was released in 1974. However, there are a number of different films that are pert of the TTCM (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) series. He featured in all of the films that include: TTCM, TTCM 2, Leatherface: TTCM 3, TTCM: The Next Generation, TTCM Remake, TTCM: The Beginning and Texas Chainsaw 3D. He features heavily throughout these films, making an incredibly important villain to the series, some consider him to be the main antagonist of these films due to the amount of the plots he drives forward.
Leatherface is a large male that wears a mask made out of human skin (hence his name) and engages in murder and cannibalism as well as being part of an inbred family. He has a number of different masks throughout the films named the 'Killing Mask', 'Old Lady Mask' and the 'Pretty Woman Mask'. It was said that the idea of him having a mask was to show that there was no personality under the mask, he put on the masks to express himself, allow for his killer to come out. This is why he also had different masks it reflected the personality. In the remake it gave a more solid explanation of why he wore the mask, it was due to a facial deformity that ate away his nose, this resulted in bullying from his peers. Before he killed people he used leather, cloths and animal hides. He then later went on to use the skin of his victims.
A killer named Ed Gein was the inspiration for the character as he performed very similar styles of murder and also wore a skin mask. Ed Gein suffered from schizophrenia, he used to have one half of his brain that was his mother, he lost his mother and ever since he began to fill the void of her in his head. She was said to be a very domineering character that would bully Gein and never let him play with the locals, it was said that the mother side of his brain was what drove him to kill, him saying that"his mother said to".
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an American Horror franchise that included seven slasher films, comics and a video game adaptation of the original film. The films are based on a psycho-killer Leatherface. He terrorizes unsuspecting visitors on his property where kills and cannibalizes them. The films grossed over $235 million at the worldwide box office and ranks eight in the US box office in adjusted 2013 dollars when compared to other American Horror Series.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an American Horror franchise that included seven slasher films, comics and a video game adaptation of the original film. The films are based on a psycho-killer Leatherface. He terrorizes unsuspecting visitors on his property where kills and cannibalizes them. The films grossed over $235 million at the worldwide box office and ranks eight in the US box office in adjusted 2013 dollars when compared to other American Horror Series.
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