{"id":25741,"date":"2026-04-22T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=25741"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:16:10","slug":"the-texas-chainsaw-bloodbath-reboot-snags-an-thrilling-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=25741","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath’ Reboot Snags an Thrilling Director"},"content":{"rendered":"


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We\u2019re nonetheless not absolutely on board<\/a> with a brand new tackle one of many biggest horror movies<\/a> ever made\u2014Tobe Hooper\u2019s 1974 masterpiece, The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath<\/em>\u2014however we\u2019re rather less on edge about the franchise\u2019s A24 period<\/a> with this newest replace. A director has come aboard the deliberate characteristic movie, and it\u2019s somebody we\u2019re fairly enthusiastic about: writer-director Curry Barker.<\/p>\n

Should you haven\u2019t heard of him, it\u2019s as a result of his breakout movie, Obsession<\/em>, hasn\u2019t hit theaters but. It\u2019s arriving Could 15<\/a>, although, which implies horror followers can lastly see the movie that io9\u2019s personal Germain Lussier has been hyping since he was fortunate sufficient to catch an early screening on the 2025 Incredible Fest.<\/a> The trailers<\/a> have solely elevated our pleasure about watching this story of a lovelorn man who makes a magic-enhanced want to land his dream lady\u2026 then feels swift, terrifying remorse about it.<\/p>\n

Barker is not<\/em> from Texas, however in any other case he looks as if a superb match. Selection<\/a> received the news on his hiring, reporting that the movie is \u201cbilled by insiders as a \u2018reimagining\u2019 of the 1974 horror traditional created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel\u201d and that \u201cBarker\u2019s imaginative and prescient for the famed killer Leatherface and the gaggle of younger issues he terrorizes are underneath wraps.\u201d<\/p>\n

The commerce additionally reminds us that, as beforehand reported, a Texas Chainsaw<\/em> TV collection continues to be within the works \u201cfrom Barnstorm\u2019s Glen Powell and Dan Cohen and director JT Mollner.\u201d There\u2019s no phrase but on how the 2 initiatives would possibly intertwine, if in any respect.<\/p>\n

Barker is at present busy with one other horror movie, Something However Ghosts<\/em>, 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 \u201con two fraudulent paranormal investigators who’re pressured to face actual ghosts\u2014and the lies underpinning their enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you concentrate on A24 tapping Barker to guide The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath<\/em> into its (inevitably blood-spattered) subsequent chapter?<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re nonetheless not absolutely on board with a brand new tackle one of many biggest horror movies ever made\u2014Tobe Hooper\u2019s 1974 masterpiece, The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath\u2014however we\u2019re rather less on edge about the franchise\u2019s A24 period with this newest replace. A director has come aboard the deliberate characteristic movie, and it\u2019s somebody we\u2019re fairly enthusiastic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pc-gimmick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25742,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25741\/revisions\/25742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}