Back in the sinister house, Andy awakens after passing out from pain and desperately tries to lift himself off the meat hook, but Leatherface has boobytrapped it, causing him to impale himself further on the hook.Įrin and Pepper are tracked down by Leatherface, who is wearing Kemper's face as a mask, and when Pepper attempts to run, she is killed by Leatherface who cuts her in half. Hoyt then handcuffs Morgan and drives him back to the Hewitt house, taking the van's key with him. Morgan, disturbed by his demands, attempts to shoot him, but the gun is unloaded. After finding marijuana on the dashboard, he orders Erin and Pepper to get out of the van, gives Morgan the gun he took from the hitchhiker, and tells him to reenact how she killed herself. Erin makes it back to the mill, but before she and the others can leave, Sheriff Hoyt shows up. Erin escapes and heads towards the woods, but Leatherface hacks off Andy's left leg with his chainsaw, he then carries the horrified and begging Andy to the basement, where he impales him on a sharp meat hook before rubbing salt on his stump of a leg afterwards he wraps it with butcher paper and ties it with human hair. When Monty realizes that Andy is inside, he summons Leatherface, who attacks him with a chainsaw. After Erin discovers that Kemper is missing, she and Andy go back to Monty's house, and Erin distracts him, while Andy searches for Kemper. Meanwhile, Sheriff Hoyt arrives at the mill, and disposes of the hitchhiker's body in his trunk. Kemper goes inside to look for Erin and is killed by Thomas Hewitt, also known as " Leatherface", who hits him with a sledgehammer which sprays his blood on a nearby television he then drags his body into the basement to make a new mask.
They come across a plantation house and Erin is allowed inside by an amputee named Monty to call for help.
Erin and Kemper go through the woods to find his house, leaving Morgan, Andy, and Pepper at the mill with Jedidiah. Instead, they find a young boy named Jedidiah, who tells them Hoyt is at home, getting drunk. The group goes to a nearby gas station to contact the police, where a woman named Luda Mae tells them to meet Sheriff Hoyt at the Old Crawford Mill. After they try to talk with the hitchhiker, who speaks incoherently about " a bad man," she pulls a loaded revolver from between her legs and shoots herself in the mouth. While driving through Texas, the group picks up a distraught and severely traumatized hitchhiker they see walking in the middle of the road. On August 18, 1973, five young adults – Erin, her boyfriend Kemper, and their friends Morgan, Andy, and Pepper – are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert after traveling to Mexico to purchase marijuana. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was the first film to be produced by Platinum Dunes, who would go on to produce remakes of several other 20th-century horror films. A prequel was released in 2006, titled The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. The film was released in the United States on October 17, 2003, received mostly negative reviews from critics, and grossed $107 million at the box office on a budget of $9.5 million. Several crew members of the original film were involved with the project: Hooper and writer Kim Henkel served as co-producers, Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer, and John Larroquette reprised his voice narration for the opening intertitles. It is a remake of Tobe Hooper's 1974 film of the same name, and the fifth installment in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. Its plot follows a group of young adults traveling through rural Texas who encounter Leatherface and his murderous family. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 2003 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel (in his feature directorial debut), written by Scott Kosar, and starring Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, and R.