Oddities, Psychos, Unprofessionals, and More Weekday Events

Get out and get weird

"...available to adorn your walls, from classics like xenomorphs, Leatherface, and the creature from the Black Lagoon to modern..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Saw Is Family! City Celebrates The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s 50th Anniversary

Proclamation ceremony brings together cast, council, and fans

"...cattle truck driver who famously wings a wrench at Leatherface’s head) commemorated production designer Bob Burns, who brought him..."

Oct. 13, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How MoMA Made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Respectable

The pivotal role of New York in the story of the Austin classic

"...subjected to constant indignities from his wheelchair. “He’s like Leatherface before Leatherface comes on screen," Magliozzi said. “He’s this..."

Aug. 14, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pool Parties, Pride Picnics, and Other Events Worth Braving the Heat

Get good and sweaty

"...and terrible. Yet it’s not just endless prints of Leatherface, Jason, and Art the Clown. The painstakingly curated show..."

June 28, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Perils of Immortal Passion in Timestalker

Alice Lowe finds the fool in her comedic take on time-crossed lovers

"...and human hair, it looks like an art project Leatherface abandoned for being too disturbing. “It was found in..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Blood on the Controller With The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Who will play, and what will become of them?

"...In that game, players take on the role of Leatherface and his chain saw – rendered in loving Atari..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Four Decades of Austin Chronicle Halloween Mask Covers

"...2003: Leatherface the Re-Districter Tom DeLay – the conservative politician formerly..."

Oct. 24, 2022 Photo Gallery

Fantastic Fest Review: Hellraiser

The Cenobites are back in the third best entry in the franchise

"...original part. It's like anyone but Gunnar Hansen being Leatherface: you'll always be one of the other Leatherfaces...."

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rondo and Bob

An Austin film legend's obsession with a Hollywood monster

"...slackers Burns (played in flashbacks by Williams) and future Leatherface Gunnar Hansen (Hanson) and their history going back to..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Fans Behind the Mask: Inside the World of The F13th Fan Film Mixtape

AGFA archivist Joseph Ziemba explores the world of discount Voorhees

"...lot of crossover fiction in here, with appearances by Leatherface, Michael Myers, even Pinhead. Were there any particularly weird..."

May 13, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Panic Fest 2022: Rondo and Bob

Austin-made history of an Austin original, and his obsession

"...in Austin - of pre-slacker slackers Burns and future Leatherface Gunnar Hansen and their history going back to Austin..."

May 1, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Bulgarian Chainsaw Massacre

David Blue Garcia proves you can take Leatherface out of Texas in the new Netflix horror Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"...the Lone Star State. However, like 2017's unrelated prequel Leatherface, the producers had decided to shoot in Eastern Europe,..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Reporting Life

Oh, the places you'll go

"...Hooper to Ed Guinn, the truck driver who smashes Leatherface in the skull with a well-pitched wrench. The article,..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Chase Hoffberger

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...sludge, like someone pouring cement over whichever demon band Leatherface booked for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and them..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Museum of the Weird to Auction Pieces of Horror History

Friday the 13th silent auction of props, collectibles, models, and more

"...the Weird, including resin busts and wax heads of Leatherface, Freddy Krueger, and Linda Blair from The Exorcist, as..."

March 13, 2020 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Child's Play

Everyone's favorite homicidal doll is back

"...There are horror icons. Freddy, Jason, Michael, Norman, Leatherface. The members of the terror elite who have instant..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Helped Shape Austin Filmmaking

The saw remains the same for Mike Blizzard

"...the bridge at U.S. 183 and Montopolis – where Leatherface (Bill Johnson) butchers two football fans and audiences get..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The True Story of the Somewhat Lost Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger star in this largely forgotten sequel

"...and the grim death by attrition of Sixties idealism. Leatherface and the Sawyer clan were the all-American nuclear family..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Victor Crowley

Adam Green and Kane Hodder head back to the swamp

"...actor to have portrayed Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Leatherface onscreen...."

Feb. 6, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tobe Hooper, R.I.P.

Remembering The Texas Chain Saw Massacre director

"...Indeed, it was a commercially cannier Hooper who reinvigorated Leatherface in 1986 for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, in..."

Aug. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Officer Downe

Slipknot's Clown turns director, plus more home releases

"...Dead's Jewel Shepard, and R.A. Mihailoff, aka the third Leatherface), ingenious gore, and full frontal nudity, to pull in..."

April 9, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bray Wyatt: Follow the Buzzards

WWE superstar on horror, power, and the allure of the ring

"...flexing musclemen and soaring luchadores, Wyatt stands alone. Part Leatherface, part Max Cady in Cape Fear, part Southern death..."

Aug. 15, 2016 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

WWE SmackDown Live

"...flexing musclemen and soaring luchadores, Wyatt stands alone: part Leatherface, part Cape Fear's Max Cady, part Southern death cult..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Sports Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Bill Moseley on being Chop Top, and living as a horror icon

"...from Scream! Factory, his co-star Bill Johnson (the film's Leatherface) calls him "enigmatic, ineffable, wonderful person." Similarly, FX guru..."

April 26, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Of Manos and Mosquito

Two schlocky classics get a pre-Halloween restoration

"...and stunt casting (look out for Gunnar Hansen, aka Leatherface, as a hippy-looking survivalist, and the Stooges' guitarist Ron..."

Oct. 24, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Horror Roundup

The best and the rest of the month's home releases

"...grisly end at the hands of Angela in full-blown Leatherface mode...."

July 3, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ho99o9

"...then launches into one final out-of-breath verse clumsily rhyming "Leatherface" with "pizzaface." The flows aren't intricate, but we look..."

March 20, 2015 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...Texas, and so he makes the killers rounded. Even Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) could have just been a hulking force...."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds Austin Opens With The Well

New sci-fi fest announces opening night film

"...my favorite horror film ever shot in Texas (sorry Leatherface)."..."

Oct. 7, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cowboys vs. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre reflects Austin's culture in 1974

"...an Austin film. Director/co-writer/co-producer Tobe Hooper, co-producer/co-writer Kim Henkel, Leatherface actor Gunnar Hansen – all were UT grads. Teri..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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