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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
2006 · Directed by Jonathan Liebesman · 91 min · Horror · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
What you know about fear... doesn't even come close.
Crew
- Screenplay: Sheldon Turner
- Cinematography: Lukas Ettlin
- Edited by: Jonathan Chibnall, Jim May
- Music: Steve Jablonsky
- Production design: Marco Rubeo
- Produced by: Mike Fleiss, Michael Bay, Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel
Cast
- Jordana Brewster as Chrissie
- Taylor Handley as Dean
- Diora Baird as Bailey
- Matt Bomer as Eric
- R. Lee Ermey as Uncle Charlie Hewitt / Sheriff Hoyt
- Lew Temple as Sheriff Winston Hoyt
- Andrew Bryniarski as Thomas Hewitt / Leatherface
- Tim DeZarn as Slaughterhouse Supervisor
- Lee Tergesen as Holden
- Cyia Batten as Alex
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Texas Chainsaw Productions, New Line Cinema, Next Entertainment, Platinum Dunes
- Budget: $16,000,000
- Box office: $50,517,763
- Themes: war veteran, sadism, psychopath, mass murder, gore, knife, biker, prequel, murder, serial killer
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