The independent archive / 1974—2022
Nine films. Different families. Conflicting histories. Follow the people, stories, and sources through every released chapter.
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A journey to check a family grave carries five young travelers into a rural Texas nightmare. Hooper and Henkel’s independent production introduced Sally Hardesty, Leatherface, and a household whose ordinary surroundings conceal extraordinary violence.
Open the film archive →A radio broadcast brings DJ Stretch into the Sawyer family’s path while Lefty Enright pursues his own revenge. Hooper’s return transforms the original’s rural terror into a louder, grotesquely comic confrontation.
Open the film archive →Michelle and Ryan’s drive through Texas brings them into another family trap. Jeff Burr’s installment places Leatherface at the center of a new ensemble and pairs the travelers with survivalist Benny.
Open the film archive →Prom-night travelers meet a family led by the volatile Vilmer. Kim Henkel’s return to the franchise combines familiar dinner-table terror with an unsettling suggestion that the ordeal is being directed by forces beyond the household.
Open the film archive →Erin and her friends encounter the Hewitt household after a roadside crisis interrupts their trip. Marcus Nispel’s remake creates a separate continuity, with Andrew Bryniarski’s Leatherface and R. Lee Ermey’s Sheriff Hoyt at its center.
Open the film archive →The Hewitt continuity moves backward to 1969. Four travelers encounter a collapsing local economy and a family turning isolation into a system of violence, while Charlie Hewitt takes on the identity of Sheriff Hoyt.
Open the film archive →Heather inherits a Texas property and discovers a family connection that changes the meaning of the danger around her. The film returns to the aftermath of the original rather than continuing the Hewitt remake story.
Open the film archive →An escape from a youth institution becomes a violent journey toward the identity of Leatherface. Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s prequel follows a different origin from the Thomas Hewitt story in The Beginning.
Open the film archive →Melody and her friends arrive in Harlow with plans to revive a Texas ghost town. Their project awakens a new round of violence, while Sally Hardesty returns to confront the figure she escaped decades earlier.
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