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If none of the footage he filmed was used, he wouldn't need to be credited.

Following a prologue in which black-and-white footage is shown of a police search of the Hewitt house, the story is told of how five teenagers—Kemper (Eric Balfour), Erin (Jessica Biel), Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), and Andy (Mike Vogel)—while on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas, stop to pick up a distraught young girl wandering along the roadside. The girl suddenly starts to moan about a "really bad man" and shoots herself through the mouth with a pistol. After ditching their marijuana, the teens go looking for the sheriff, not knowing that Sheriff Hoyt (R. Lee Ermey) is a Hewitt, a member of a family of inbred psychopathic cannibals.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) (1974), which was based on a screenplay written by American film-makers Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper. The 1974 movie was adapted for the 2003 movie by American screenwriter Scott Kosar. It was followed by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) (2006) and Texas Chainsaw (2013) (2012).

The film is very loosly based on Ed Gein, a serial killer from Wisconsin who fashioned trophies and furniture from corpses. The film shows Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski) sewing and wearing human skin, which Ed Gein did do in real life. Besides that, however, the film is fiction.

Yes, it is gorier than the original. We see more shots of Leatherface working with the bodies of his victims, and the actual killings boast more blood and arterial sprays than the 1970s version. However, if compared to sadistic horror movie series like Saw (2004-2010) and Hostel (2005-2011), it comes off as nothing particularly extreme.

The song heard at the beginning of the trailer is "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil, from the album "It'll End In Tears" of 1984.