Netflix's Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reboot Trailer Takes Series Back To Scary Origins

The trailer for the latest movie in the long-running Texas Chainsaw Massacre series has been released. The film--simply titled Texas Chainsaw Massacre--arrives on Netflix on February 18.

The trailer opens with a series of shots of the now-deserted farmhouse from Tobe Hooper's original 1974 movie. The caption reads, "In 1974 a horror legend was born... in 2022, the face of madness returns." This movie is a direct sequel to Hooper's film, and we see the franchise's iconic masked madman Leatherface retrieving his chainsaw from the walls of the house, before menacing a young woman unfortunate enough to be hiding under the floorboards for some reason. The quality of the series has been very varied over the decades, but let's hope this latest, ninth film has some of the intense scares of that classic first film. Check the trailer out below:

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is produced by Fede Álvarez (Don't Breathe) and directed by David Blue Garcia. It stars Alice Krige (Star Trek: First Contact), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), Nell Hudson (Victoria), William Hope (Aliens), and Sarah Yarkin (Happy Death Day 2U).

In a recent interview with Bloody Disgusting, Álvarez explained that the idea of rebooting the Chainsaw series had the same inspiration as his 2013 remake of The Evil Dead. "It started just as Evil Dead started--us thinking, what can we do with this character and this franchise?" he said. "A lot of respect for the legacy of the first movie, but we're aware there’s a new audience out there who might not love it or doesn’t know anything about it, so we need to make sure they can enjoy it as well. That’s how the story was crafted."