I want to post why I'm so excited about this film.
Firstly, Leatherface is the quintessential American psycho, surpassing Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and even Freddy Krueger in mania symbolism. Remember folks, that horror films are primarily meant to shock our sensibilities about behavior deformation, and no one is more spiritually deformed than the purely psychotic Leatherface.
Secondly, Tobe Hooper started a sensation in American horror with
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974), a bizarre and grizzly look at the extremes of murderous behavior set in the eccentric U.S. state of Texas.
Thirdly,
"Leatherface" (2016) is a prequel that promises to engage audiences on the psychological origin points of such a legendary maniac, much in the same way that
"Batman: Year One" (Frank Miller) and
"Batman Begins" (Christopher Nolan) did for comic book novels and movies.
Fourthly, American movies have a way of creating social euphoria. Remember those news reports of people committing copycat crimes modeled after Oliver Stone's controversial crime and violence-glorification film
"Natural Born Killers" (1994)?
Fifthly and lastly, Leatherface does for American crime analysis and crime pulp fiction (i.e., vigilantism-fantasia comics) what Karl Marx did for socialism optimism, and this rather well-hyped
Texas Chainsaw prequel has people talking about 'mania mutton.'
I mean, you could call this prequel
"Leatherface: Year One" (2016).
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