Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chainsaw Massacrefranchise began back in 1974 with the exit of the original flick , and Leatherface is still terrorizing consultation all these years subsequently . The latest instalment , Texas Chainsaw Massacre , is now streaming on Netflix . This metre around , director David Blue Garcia was responsible for for bringing the notorious killer to the screen .
Screen Rantspoke with Garcia to discuss his experience makingTexas Chainsaw Massacre , the new film ’s place in the serial timeline , Easter bollock , and more .
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Screen Rant : Let ’s back it all the direction up . Do you remember the first time you saw the originalTexas Chainsaw Massacreand what went through your mind when you watched it ?
David Blue Garcia : It ’s funny , I ’ve been getting need that dubiousness a portion and , in fact , I would say it ’s one of the main cinema memory I have . There ’s certain flick that you see throughout your childhood that really brook out . One of them is Jurassic Park , for me , but one of them is Texas Chainsaw Massacre , which came on cable system of late at Nox and I turned the TV on , I was watching it , 30 - 40 minutes in Leatherface pops out and I was so terrified . I turned the TV off . But then I had to see how the chronicle terminate so I watch the rest of it . But it was just so dark and shivery and I ’d never seen anything like it .
I do n’t know why the camera sounds scared me more than almost anything in the motion picture . I do n’t make out why I chance them so scary .
David Blue Garcia : The heavy design and the grade for that movie are really out of this man .
And then , of course , Marilyn Burns screaming in the tree trunk at the end . It ’s just so iconic . I also thought it was a rightful story because I was too young .
David Blue Garcia : perfectly . A lot of people grew up think that and still consider that this sidereal day .
Can you talk about how you shoot down in the director ’s electric chair for this one and just go through that backstory a little bit ?
David Blue Garcia : I ’m a aboriginal Texan I grew up in Texas , still go here . My first pic is call Tejano , which means Texan in Spanish . So I think the studio saw me and was like , " That ’s the guy . That ’s the perfect guy wire to helm this moving picture . ” Also , the first Texan in quite a retentive while to helm this franchise . So Tobe Hooper , Kim Henkel , and me . It was a little bit of luck , also encounter the proper people . Once the opportunity occur , I had to go with it .
There are quite a fewTexas Chainsawmovies , like you mentioned , how do you wrap your head around the continuity of it all and where this motion-picture show meet in ? Does it ignore everything else but the 1974 movie ?
David Blue Garcia : We care to call this a verbatim continuation to the original . Not that it ignores all the other films in between , but those are n’t as crucial to the story . you’re able to pick and take what you want to from those other films . We ’re picking the movie up 50 year later and Leatherface has kind of been lying small in this orphanhood and is raise up by these millennian protagonists who make out to townsfolk .
What was the most crucial element of the first picture show and the franchise for you to contain in the new film ?
David Blue Garcia : For me , it was kind of the spirit . The spirit of the filmmaking of that first movie . I do n’t wish to watch pic while I make movies . So I watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre , the original , and then I did n’t look out anything else for two months while I pip this . To me , it just kind of gives me an estimate for what I need to do . But I ’m not actually directly copying anything from the original . It just gave me sort of a feel .
Something that stood out to me about the original that not a batch of people let the cat out of the bag about , is how darkly comic it is . So I made sure to bring a short bit of levity into this film as well . You might have seen it , the bus conniption when Leatherface walks on and all the characters elicit their cell phones . That ’s one of the first thing I added when I occur on .
What was the hardest battle for you in making this movie ? What was the hardest matter for you to get correct ?
David Blue Garcia : I think shooting practically , a lot of the blood and gore is always a challenge . It ’s so easy for a film director to just be like , " Oh , it ’s easier , we ’ll just tote up some blood in post . We ’ll add some CGI pedigree in post . We ’ll just shoot it and move on . " But , really sticking with that discipline and trying to get it correct in - television camera take a destiny of patience . That was hard to learn . But [ I ] had Fede Álvarez helping me , guiding me through that process . He ’s done that many time before . So it was a great learnedness experience .
What ’s the blood made out of these day ?
David Blue Garcia : Every department has their own miscellanea of blood . I know the makeup department has blood that give out on skin . The special essence department has their own blood , and the mask department has their own blood . So I really do n’t acknowledge the chemical substance compound that go into these different bloods . It was all parentage to me .
You touch on this a little act , but we get to see Leatherface again , of course . How has Leatherface changed since the last clock time we saw him ?
David Blue Garcia : I think the most notable alteration is that he has senesce quite a bit . multitude care to blab out about , " Oh , he would be so sure-enough " or " How would it experience to move around or lift a chainsaw ? " And I do n’t reckon those people have been to Texas and seen these old farmers that I ’ve see . I intend , these hombre are 80 years old and still hale bags of grain and stuff over their articulatio humeri . So , I have no doubt that Leatherface eating and living well for 50 year , not eating fast food for thought , would be a very hefty and robust man . But he has n’t been on the internet or anything like that . He ’s basically living in the same mental time geological period as the first film until he walks onto that busbar and it ’s like he clip - jaunt from 1974 to 2022 and he sees all these flower people .
He ’s like , " goodbye . "
David Blue Garcia : He ’s like " I do not wish this . "
The vibes are off , they ’re kick the bucket .
Of course , we see Sally , which is awesome to make for her back . Can you let the cat out of the bag about bringing her back and how she ’s deepen since the last clock time we picture her ?
David Blue Garcia : I guess Sally was significant to bring back because we want to sort of pass along the torch from her character to the next group of characters , and it quite literally encounter in the film . In 50 years , she ’s been dealing with her own past , her own trauma , something she ran from ab initio . But now she ’s assay to contend . She desire to get her revenge , but she just has n’t been able to notice Leatherface . It ’s prissy to be able to secernate and nail her story , continue her story .
You also use one of the original chainsaws from the original film , right ? How did you get it and what was it like to use on band ?
David Blue Garcia : We had this very former chainsaw and I was told it ’s one of the original chainsaws from the first movie . This is what I was told . So I had a sort of awe for it . And I will separate you , it ’s very old and it just ever take off . I would take 10 to 15 to 20 minutes sometimes of just [ rev noises ] trying to get it started , and once it was on , we did n’t know how long it would stay on because it would just turn off whenever it wanted . It put out these terrible fumes . I mean , so much smoke to the point where I say that if Leatherface had really walk onto that bus , he could have just stood there for about 30 seconds and everyone would have died of suffocation before he even had a chance to cut them up .
It ’s like the shark fromJaws .
David Blue Garcia : Yes . I had a luck of prop saws too that I would use before I had to use the pilot . But I practice the pilot for obviously , all the penny-pinching - ups and the real virtuoso takes .
That ’s awe-inspiring . What was your true geek - out second on set where you ’re just like , " Oh , hell yeah , I ’m makingTexas Chainsaw Massacrebaby ! "
David Blue Garcia : It ’s when you ’re finally filming that scene of Leatherface run away and chasing someone . That ’s the iconic moment , you have it away what I mean ? There ’s a tidy sum of cat and pussyfoot scary clobber that we were film . But as soon as you see him running full tilt with that chainsaw up in the aura and the backlit smoke billowing behind him , that ’s when you know you ’ve made it .
Do you have a favorite Easter orchis that eagle - eyed fans should watch out for ?
David Blue Garcia : There ’s a pile of easter eggs in the film , some of which I ’m still discovering because I forgot that we put them in . When I rewatch the movie , I ’m like , " oh yeah ! Forgot about that . " But one of my favorites is , if you just look in the bus scene , look in the windows . Look in the lightning split second in the windows and you ’ll see something pretty interesting .
I was just talking to Elsie [ Fisher ] and Sarah [ Yarkin ] and they were talking about when he puts the phone up and they ’re scroll , you could see the names are the author and Fede [ Alvarez ] and all that .
David Blue Garcia : I ’m in there . I have a cameo as one of those little gens in the Instagram Live .
I bed that . Just a Leatherface being on set , you have Mark Burnham diddle him . What was he like on set ? Was he actually freaky ?
David Blue Garcia : Mark Burnham is a really nice guy , but when you see him standing there at six infantry six , wearing the masquerade , just occupy up the doorway , it ’s a niggling scary , you know what I mean ? I ’d be like , " Mark , do n’t do n’t sneak up on me like that . " But it was a plenty less scary when I ’d see him sit around down in his chair drinking a Diet Coke . So I ’d be like , " Okay , good . I ’m not live on to get murdered . "
When you see Sally and him standing next to each other or across from each other , that ’s when you ’re like , " Oh my God . He is immense . "
David Blue Garcia : Yeah , Mark is a god-awful man . Really big guy . Gentle Giant and brought a lot of really great ideas to the movie and a really interesting carrying into action for Leatherface , even behind the mask , and that ’s laborious to do .
This kind of has a nice wrap bow on it . But do you have a continuation in mind ? Do you have more plans for moreTexas Chainsaws ?
David Blue Garcia : I have a net ton of idea if we get to do another movie , but that ’s up to the powers at be , and Netflix , and other citizenry . I ’d love to be able to explore what happens next .
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