10 Most Anticipated Upcoming Horror Movies

6. Leatherface

Leatherface movie
New Line

Release Date: October

Not to be confused with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, which also told the origin story, Leatherface is a direct prequel to 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre rather than the 2003 reboot or whatever Texas Chainsaw 3D was supposed to be.

What saves it from being consigned to the dustbin of horror prequels is the casting: Lili Taylor (in a role originally earmarked for Angela Bettis) is the matriarch of the infamous Sawyer clan and Stephen Dorff is the unhinged lawman intent on tracking down teenaged Leatherface, who’s just absconded from the loony bin with three other inmates.

The directors are Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, who made Inside (2007) and Among The Living (2014). TCM movies aren’t known for skimping on the red stuff, so here’s hoping those crazy French filmmakers haven’t begun censoring themselves.

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'