The fascination with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has yet to run its bloody, nightmarish course. Along with its long legacy of sequels and remakes, the massacre continues next year with Liongate’s Texas Chainsaw 3D, and a new poster heralds some pretty grotesque looking stuff. Formerly known as Leatherface 3D, the story follows a woman who travels to the Lone Star state to collect an inheritance, but I’m predicting that it doesn’t go so well for her. Not many questions are left unanswered , but from the looks of the image, one thing if for sure – if fans always wondered how Leatherface gathered his trademark skin masks, the film seems happy to explain. See poster and synopsis via Fangoria below:
Synopsis:
Lionsgate’s TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic left off in Newt, Texas, where for decades people went missing without a trace. The townspeople long suspected the Sawyer family, owners of a local barbeque pit, were somehow responsible. Their suspicions were finally confirmed one hot summer day when a young woman escaped the Sawyer house following the brutal murders of her four friends. Word around the small town quickly spread, and a vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer stronghold, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family – or so they thought.
Decades later and hundreds of miles away from the original massacre, a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew she had. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars…
Directed by John Luessenhop, Texas Chainsaw 3D stars Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde and Scott Eastwood. The film opens on January 4th, 2013.
On a less gruesome note, Indiewire hightlighted a poster for the documentary The House I Live In. Director Eugene Jarecki won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for his probing look at how America’s war on drugs failed to live up to its mission, and how it instead contributed to prison overcrowding and the destruction of communities. Considering that the legalization of marijuana has re-entered national discourse this election year, this film should prove more relevant than ever. See poster and synopsis below:
Synopsis:
Eugene Jarecki’s seminal film Why We Fight dissected the underbelly of the American war machine. Now, with scalpel-like precision, Jarecki turns his lens on a less visible war—one that is costing more lives, destroying more families, and quickly becoming a scourge on the soul of American society. In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world’s largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong, and what can be done?
Comprehensive in scope, heart wrenching in its humanity, and brilliant in its thesis, Jarecki’s new film grabs viewers and shakes them to their core. The House I Live In is not only the definitive film on the failure of America’s drug war, but it is also a masterpiece filled with hope and the potential to effect change. This film is surely destined for the annals of documentary history.
The House I Live In hits theaters on October 5th.