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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre theatrical poster
Directed by	Marcus Nispel
Produced by	Michael Bay Mike Fleiss
Written by	Scott Kosar
Starring	Jessica Biel Andrew Bryniarski Jonathan Tucker Erica Leerhsen Mike Vogel Eric Balfour R. Lee Ermey
Music by	Steve Jablonsky
Cinematography	Daniel Pearl
Distributed by	New Line Cinema Focus Features
Release date(s)	October 17, 2003 (2003-10-17)
Running time	98 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$9,500,000 USD
Gross revenue	$107,071,655
Followed by	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a horror film, and a re-imagining of the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The film was directed by Marcus Nispel and produced by Michael Bay.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Deleted scenes 3 Connection to actual events 4 Cast 5 Soundtrack 6 DVD Release 7 Reception 7.1 Box office 8 References 9 External links

The movie starts out with some "real" police footage of the crime, with police doing a walkthrough of the basement. On August 18, 1973, five college kids, Erin, Kemper, Pepper, Andy, and Morgan, are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas. The kids are returning from a trip to Mexico, where Kemper, unbeknownst to his girlfriend Erin, bought marijuana. As they are driving through Travis County, Texas, they see a girl about their age walking in the road. After nearly hitting her, Erin insists that they pick her up, and they do so. She is in a hysterical state and goes on about a "really bad man". The teens take her in their car where she ends up shooting herself in the mouth. They are told to go to the Old Crawford Mill to find the sheriff. They arrive, and no sheriff is found. Erin and Kemper take off through the woods to find the sheriff's house, leaving the other three teenagers at the mill.

Erin and Kemper come to a large house in a field. Erin is allowed inside by the owner, an old man in a wheelchair with no legs, but Kemper is told to wait outside. Kemper is fed-up with waiting and goes into the home where he is attacked by Leatherface and dragged into the basement. The sheriff arrives at the mill and takes the body of the girl, and as Erin arrives she finds that Kemper is missing. Andy sneaks into the house looking for Kemper and the old man soon summons Leatherface, who taunts and chases them with his chainsaw. Erin escapes, but Andy's leg is severed and he is taken inside where he is hung on a meat hook in the basement.

Erin arrives back at the mill in a panic. Erin tries starting the van, but it doesn't work. The sheriff soon shows up again, and he orders the three out of the van and forces them to the ground. He makes Morgan re-enact the suicide, and then kidnaps him, leaving the girls alone at the mill with the van. Leatherface shows up (wearing Kemper's face) and cuts Pepper in half with the chainsaw. After a game of cat and mouse chase, Erin is finally caught by Leatherface and taken to the basement.

In an act of sympathy, she kills Andy with a knife who was previously injured. She escapes with Morgan, with Leatherface in pursuit. They find an abandoned house and hide in the upper level of the house. Erin is caught by Leatherface, but then saved as Morgan sacrifices himself for Erin to escape. Morgan is hung on a chandelier before Leatherface saws him between the legs. Leatherface continues the chase after Erin.

Erin hides in a meat factory where she later chops off Leatherface's arm with a meat cleaver. Erin again escapes and after a mishap with a trucker, steals the sheriff's car and runs him over repeatedly, killing him. As she drives on, Leatherface appears in the road, brandishing his chainsaw in his other arm. He slices the drivers' side door of the car but Erin is unharmed. Leatherface, who is irate, just breathes heavily from the blood loss and stares as the car drives away. The other half of the police footage is shown, and Leatherface kills the policemen and cameraman. The narrator comes on and says that Thomas Hewitt was never caught, and the case remains open.

Four scenes had to be edited to avoid an "NC-17" rating and achieve an "R" rating:

• More graphic shots of Morgan's death, featuring the chainsaw slicing into his crotch, and having blood and guts falling from him.
• The hitchhiker's suicide having her ear flying off of her head and blood, and brain matter being more dark in color and more in amount flying out of her head.
• A slightly more graphic death of Kemper: after getting hit with a sledgehammer, he drops to the floor gasping and convulsing with blood pouring out of his head.
• Pepper's death originally showed the chainsaw cutting into her stomach.

This film, like its original from 1973 and the films Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs, was inspired by Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein. Gein did wear human skin, but he acted alone and did not use a chainsaw. The film's opening claims the events are factual, a use of the false document technique. (Filming of the first movie was from July 15, 1973 to August 14, 1973, while the opening narrative claims that the events took place on 18 August 1973.) Libraries in Burkburnett, Texas and nearby Wichita Falls regularly receive requests for copies of newspaper articles related to the events.

• Jessica Biel as Erin Hardesty. Erin is Kemper's girlfriend, and they along with Morgan, Andy, and Pepper are heading to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas. Erin is the only survivor left in the end of the film (the Final girl).
• Jonathan Tucker as Morgan. A friend of Erin, Kemper, and Andy, meets his death when Leatherface hangs him on a chandalier and puts his chainsaw up between his legs.
• Erica Leerhsen as Pepper Harrington. A hitchhiker picked up by Erin, Kemper, Andy, and Morgan, she quickly forms a relationship with Andy. Pepper is sawed in half by Leatherface.
• Mike Vogel as Andy. Andy is also along for the ride, friends of the other 3. He is attacked by Leatherface and has his leg cut off right below the knee. He is hung on a hook in the basement, and is finished off when he requests that Erin relieve him of his pain.
• Eric Balfour as Kemper. Kemper is Erin's boyfriend, the driver of the van with the others. He is the first one attacked by Leatherface, as he is killed when he is hit on the back of the head with a sledgehammer. His face is cut off, and used by Leatherface as a mask.
• R. Lee Ermey as Sheriff Hoyt. Hoyt (whose real name is actually Charlie), a very heinous person, is the "sheriff" of Travis County. He assaults the teens and manipulates them into coming to the Hewitt house.

• Andrew Bryniarski as Thomas Hewitt / Leatherface. Leatherface suffers from a facial disfigurement and skin disease that ate away most of his nose. He cuts off other human's faces and uses them for his own. In the climax of the film, Erin uses a meat cleaver to cut off his arm, but he survives the attack.
• David Dorfman as Jedidiah. A small boy who prowls around the Hewitt house, and helps Erin escape from Leatherface.
• Terrence Evans as Old Monty. Uncle Monty is Charlie's brother and lives at the Hewitt house. He is in a wheelchair, as he has no legs.
• Marietta Marich as Luda May Hewitt. She is Leatherface's adoptive mother who lives at the Hewitt house.

The soundtrack was released through Nitrus Records.

1. Immorally Insane - Pantera
2. Below the Bottom - Hatebreed
3. Pride - Soil
4. Deliver Me - Static-X
5. 43 - Mushroomhead
6. Pig - Seether
7. Down in Flames - Nothingface
8. Self Medicate - 40 Below Summer
9. Suffocate - Motograter
10. Sinner - Drowning Pool
11. Destroyer of Senses - Shadows Fall
12. Rational Gaze - Meshuggah
13. Archetype (Remix) - Fear Factory
14. Enshrined by Grace - Morbid Angel
15. Listen - Index Case
16. Ruin - Lamb of God
17. Stand in Shadow - Finger Eleven
18. As Real as It Gets - Sworn Enemy
19. Roll It Up - The Crystal Method

The region 1 DVD was released on March 30, 2004 through Warner Home Video.^[1]Special features include audio commentaries, documentaries, deleted scenes, and an alternate ending and opening. Also included is the theatrical trailer, image galleries, tv spots, and an evidence file with crime scene photos.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released in North America on October 17, 2003 in 3,018 theaters. ^[2] It grossed $10,620,000 on its opening day and concluded its North America opening weekend with $28,094,014. It ranked number one at the box office.^[3]The film opened in various other foreign countries and grossed $26,500,000, while the North American gross stands at $80,571,655, bringing the worldwide gross to $107,071,655.^[4]

• Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) at the Internet Movie Database
• Leatherface vs. Ed Gein at ChasingtheFrog

Preceded by Kill Bill Volume 1

Box office number-one films of 2003 (USA) October 19, 2003

Succeeded by Scary Movie 3

v • d • e The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series
Original series	The Texas Chain Saw Massacre • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 • Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III • Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Remake series	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Characters	Chop Top • Drayton Sawyer • Grandpa • Hitchhiker • Leatherface • Luda May Hewitt • Old Monty • Sheriff Hoyt • Sally Hardesty • W. E. Sawyer
Other	All American Massacre • Atari 2600 Game • Comics