Texas Chainsaw 3D Poster

There's another film in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series coming next January, but it's kind of a weird sequel. The film is a continuation from the 1974 original, ignoring the various sequels and reboots from over the years. They also are taking the odd step of calling the film simply Texas Chainsaw 3D, dropping the all-important Massacre from the title.

Here is the plot synopsis and a new poster, which appeared on Fangoria.

Lionsgate's TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic left off in Newt Texas, where for decades people went missing without a trace. The townspeople long suspected the Sawyer family, owners of a local barbeque pit, were somehow responsible. Their suspicions were finally confirmed one hot summer day when a young woman escaped the Sawyer house following the brutal murders of her four friends. Word around the small town quickly spread, and a vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer stronghold, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family - or so they thought.

Decades later and hundreds of miles away from the original massacre, a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew she had. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion's dark cellars...

Yeah. The face masks aren't creepy at all. I wonder if we'll be seeing this in theater lobbies or if it will be considered a bit too much for a general audience. Here's hoping that the story can do justice as a direct sequel to Hooper's 1974 masterpiece, that the 3D works well, and that they bring back Massacre to the title. 

We'll find out January 4th, 2013.

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