We’re nonetheless not absolutely on board with a brand new tackle one of many biggest horror movies ever made—Tobe Hooper’s 1974 masterpiece, The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath—however we’re rather less on edge about the franchise’s A24 period with this newest replace. A director has come aboard the deliberate characteristic movie, and it’s somebody we’re fairly enthusiastic about: writer-director Curry Barker.
Should you haven’t heard of him, it’s as a result of his breakout movie, Obsession, hasn’t hit theaters but. It’s arriving Could 15, although, which implies horror followers can lastly see the movie that io9’s personal Germain Lussier has been hyping since he was fortunate sufficient to catch an early screening on the 2025 Incredible Fest. The trailers have solely elevated our pleasure about watching this story of a lovelorn man who makes a magic-enhanced want to land his dream lady… then feels swift, terrifying remorse about it.
Barker is not from Texas, however in any other case he looks as if a superb match. Selection received the news on his hiring, reporting that the movie is “billed by insiders as a ‘reimagining’ of the 1974 horror traditional created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel” and that “Barker’s imaginative and prescient for the famed killer Leatherface and the gaggle of younger issues he terrorizes are underneath wraps.”
The commerce additionally reminds us that, as beforehand reported, a Texas Chainsaw TV collection continues to be within the works “from Barnstorm’s Glen Powell and Dan Cohen and director JT Mollner.” There’s no phrase but on how the 2 initiatives would possibly intertwine, if in any respect.
Barker is at present busy with one other horror movie, Something However Ghosts, which is underneath the Blumhouse banner and can see him direct, co-write, and star. It feels like extra of a horror comedy; Selection describes it as centering “on two fraudulent paranormal investigators who’re pressured to face actual ghosts—and the lies underpinning their enterprise.”
What do you concentrate on A24 tapping Barker to guide The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath into its (inevitably blood-spattered) subsequent chapter?
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