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Kenneth "Kenny" Slaughter, also known as Leatherface and formerly known as Bubba Sawyer, is the main antagonist in the 2022 horror film Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which serves as a direct sequel to the original 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
He is portrayed by Mark Burnham.
History[]
On August 18th, 1973, five college students, Sally, Franklin, Jerry, Pam, and Kirk went on a road trip to go to their homestead as they have heard reports of grave robbings. Kirk and Pam looked for the local swimming hole and stumbled upon the cannibals' house—hoping they could get some gasoline for their van—where Leatherface killed Kirk with a sledgehammer and hung Pam on a meat hook before throwing her into a freezer where she froze to death.
When Jerry came looking for them, he was also killed by Leatherface with a sledgehammer. He then killed Franklin in the woods with his chainsaw and chased Sally, where The Cook took her to their house to cook her and eat her. When Grandpa failed to kill Sally with the hammer, she ran, but the Hitchhiker and Leatherface chased after her. Hitchhiker was much faster then Leatherface and quickly caught up to Sally.
Before he could kill her, he was run over by an 18-wheeler since he had been too focused on Sally to notice. With the Hitchhiker dead, only Leatherface was left and managed to catch up to Sally. Sally went into a truck with the driver with Leatherface swiping at the door with his chainsaw. Fortunately, the two managed to get out and run as Leatherface chased after them once again. Seeing that they weren't losing him, the driver hit Leatherface in the head with a wrench, knocking him down and causing him to cut his leg on his chainsaw. Sally managed to take advantage of this distraction and escape on a passing pickup truck while the driver ran away in fear. He was last seen swinging his chainsaw around in frustration due to his victim escaping, his wounds bleeding, and his brother dead.
Soon after, Leatherface ran away from home and threw away his skin masks, arriving to the small town of Harlow. He went to an orphanage and was met by Virginia "Ginny" McCumber, who took him under her wing as an adoptive mother figure. For fifty years, Leatherface would live a quiet and peaceful life. Fifty years after the original massacre in 1973, a group of entrepreneurs, Melody, Lila, Dante, and Ruth, have travelled to their quiet homes however after having bought most of the properties from the banks that own them with the hopes of creating their own community after selling the buildings in an auction. After noticing one of the buildings waving a confederate flag, the group discover Ginny who regretfully inform her that she has to leave since she apparently no longer owns the building and after two police officers arrive to escort her out, Ginny suffers a heart attack. Ruth and Leatherface join the officers in their van as they drive to the nearest hospital, but Ginny dies on the way there, enraging Leatherface and he kills one of the officers.
After forcing the van to crash, Leatherface kills the remaining officer and Ruth, then makes his first new mask in half a century from Ginny's face. Leatherface then makes his way back to Harlow to enact his revenge on those who he believes murdered his last living blood relative. Meanwhile, Melody finally receives the text message from the already dead Ruth that "the old lady" had died and feeling remorseful for their actions, Melody plans on leaving Harlow with her sister Lila. Richter, the only other person who was living in Harlow, hears what happened however and takes their keys to their bus and refuses to give them back until they can prove they had the right to kick Ginny out of her home.
Sally Hardesty, the only living survivor from the original massacre, is told by a friend of hers that he heard over the radio about a man who forced a van to crash and made a mask from someone's face. Realizing it's the same man who killed her brother and three of her friends, Sally gears up to get her revenge on Leatherface. After finally arriving back in town, Leatherface enters his home and attacks Dante with a meat cleaver just as Melody discovers Ginny actually still had the deed to her home and they had no right to evict her.
It begins to rain over the town of Harlow, forcing almost all of the auctioneers onto the bus, but Richter discovers a wounded Dante stumbling down the sidewalk who then bleeds to death. Richter goes into Leatherface's home to investigate where he finds Melody hiding under the bed who warns Richter that Leatherface is hiding behind the door. Richter manages to put up a decent fight for a while, but Leatherface still manages to kill him. After he leaves, Melody takes the keys from Richter's body and escapes outside where she reunites with Lila on the bus and tries to warn her about what's going on. It's too late however since Leatherface walks onto the bus where he massacres everyone inside with his chainsaw.
Melody and Lila escape out of the bathroom window where they're met by Sally who locks them both inside of her car before confronting Leatherface. Oddly, Leatherface doesn't initially remember Sally and completely ignores her even though she has invaded his own with a shotgun pointed at his face and goes back outside to kill Melody and Lila, but is then shot by Sally who laughs maniacally the same way during her escape fifty years ago, reminding Leatherface of who she is. Sally gives Melody and Lila the keys to her car so that they can drive away, but is ambushed by Leatherface who impales her with his chainsaw. Before she dies, Sally tells Lila that if she doesn't kill him, he'll haunt her and her sister for the rest of her days.
Lila rejoins Melody in Sally's car and they attempt to run over Leatherface, but they accidentally crash it and Melody is impaled by a piece of metal. Lila takes Sally's shotgun and follows Leatherface into an abandoned movie theater who ambushes her as well and nearly kills her until she's saved by Melody and shoots Leatherface several times with the shotgun before slicing the chainsaw up the his chin to uppercut him with it, and Leatherface falls back into an indoor body of water where he presumably drowns.
A few hours later, Melody and Lila are finally about to leave Harlow when Leatherface suddenly reveals himself once again to be alive and decapitates Melody. Lila screams in anguish as her self-driving car takes her away while Leatherface dances on the road with his chainsaw and Melody's severed head. Sometime later, Leatherface returns to his original home.
Personality[]
In the first film, Leatherface shows emotions of fear upon seeing the intruders in his home, as he screams. He is very ruthless with his kills, treating his victims like mere meat. However, when he is at home, he shows submission to his family. Leatherface's older brother, The Cook abuses him and beats him with a broomstick, whom he doesn't fight off, instead he cowers and takes the beating. It is also of importance that he is non-verbal, he relies on his human masks to express himself.
In Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface was calm and quiet but started to panic when his mother was dying. He was shown to be loving and caring for his mother, he even skinned her and used her face as a mask out of affection, and later was hugging her dresses and smelling them. Because of her death, he killed out of pure rage, agony and vengeance, unlike the original Leatherface who killed out of fear.
Appearance[]
Leatherface has a large figure, standing at 6'3" and weighing 230 lbs. Being in his 60's, he has dark grey hair, a beard and sallow eyes with rotten and filed yellowed teeth. For the first half of the film, he wore brown overalls with a brown button up and boots. When he began to target people with his chainsaw, he switched into a dirty yellow apron, blue jeans and a white T-shirt. The face he wears was that of his caretaker, Virginia McCumber, flayed and fashioned into a mask, covering half of his face. After he sliced Dante's face with a cleaver, he applied make-up to his mask.
Abilities[]
- Superhuman Durability: Leatherface is able to withstand multiple blows such as a wrench to the head, chainsaw to the leg, a corkscrew in the arm, several shotgun shells to his body, and taking an uppercut to the chin from his own chainsaw.
- Superhuman Strength: Leatherface is shown to be incredibly strong, able to snap a police officer's arm in half effortlessly, throw a sledgehammer with enough force to make Melody fall through the floorboards, break a grown man’s leg with one sledgehammer swing, lift Sally all the way in the air with his chainsaw and throw her whole body away several feet in the air.
- Surprising Speed: Despite his old age and appearing a bit overweight, Leatherface is quite swift and nimble.
- High Stamina: Despite old age and slightly overweight appearance, Leatherface has proven to have great stamina being able to walk for hours, chase his victims relentlessly and swim out of water and chase a car down seemingly without tiring out.
- Superhuman Endurance: Leatherface has shown to have an immense threshold for pain, shown by how he cut his leg with his chainsaw and continued to chase Sally. He took a punch in the face from Richter with and got hit in the face with a shotgun with no affect, took several gunshots without seeming very physically hurt and didn't even flinch when Sally stabbed him in the stomach.
- Combat Proficiency: Leatherface has shown to be a skilled fighter, as demonstrated when he defeated Richter in their brawl while he was armed with a gun, surprised Sally and grabbed the handle of her shotgun to prevent her from being able to shoot him and drove his chainsaw through her torso and used it to lift her up in the air and throw her away and was also able to throw Melody off his back.
Equipment[]
- Chainsaw: Leatherface's primary weapon of choice is a Poulan 306a chainsaw, a model from 1970. He uses it to chop through his victims and break debris in order to get to his targets, such as sawing through doors and floor boards.
- Sledgehammer: Though a sledgehammer originally meant for quickly killing cattle, Leatherface uses this to bludgeon his victim's heads in much the same way.
- Meat Hooks: Leatherface is able to hang his victims on meathooks as if they're mere meat and prevent them from running away.
- Cleaver: Leatherface is shown to use this to chop his victims up and use it in combat and slice their faces as shown in his scuffle with Dante.
Victims[]
1973[]
- Kirk - Smashed over the head with a sledgehammer.
- Pam - Impaled on a meat hook and then froze to death off-screen after being locked inside a freezer.
- Jerry - Smashed over the head with a sledgehammer.
- Franklin Hardesty - Eviscerated with a chainsaw.
2023[]
- Unnamed Deputy - Stabbed in the neck by with the broken bone of his own forearm.
- Sheriff Hathaway - Head crushed with a wooden block, after being accidentally shot by his deputy.
- Ruth - Disemboweled with a broken piece of metal.
- Dante - Face slashed open with a meat cleaver.
- Richter - Beaten to death with a sledgehammer.
- Unnamed Male Bus Driver - Decapitated off-screen with a chainsaw.
- 15 Unnamed People - Massacred with a chainsaw on the bus.
- Catherine - Cut in half with a chainsaw on the bus.
- Sally Hardesty - Impaled with a chainsaw.
- Melody - Decapitated with a chainsaw.
Overall[]
- Total - 28
- 15 Victims of Unknown Gender
- 8 Men
- 5 Women
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Behind the Scenes[]
Trivia[]
- The Netflix version of Leatherface is not only one of the most durable versions of the iconic slasher, having tanked being shot multiple times with a shotgun and even being slashed across his chin with his own chainsaw, but seemingly also one of the most intelligent interpretations. Leatherface manages to ambush Sally Hardesty after fifty years of prepping several times.
- It's unknown as to why Leatherface didn't attack Sally Hardesty when she came into his home, but it's possible that since Sally had no part in Ginny's death, she hadn't actually attacked him yet, and after fifty years he initially had no recollection of her, so he had no reason to kill her.
- This incarnation of Leatherface seems to take inspiration from the 2018 version of Michael Myers.
- According to a casting call for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface's first name is Kenny. His last name is revealed in a newspaper detailing the events of the original massacre. [1]
- Neither of his names were verbally mentioned in the film however.
- According to director David Blue Garcia in this video, the chainsaw Leatherface hid within his bedroom wall is actually one of the same ones used in the original 1974 film and it reportedly took twenty to thirty minutes to get it working again.
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