The branching timelines of Texas Chainsaw are much more gnarled-even though, unlike Halloween, they include a sequel with the same director as the original. This has resulted in a pile-up of movies that can lay claim to being Halloween III: The first, unrelated-to-Michael Myers version, subtitled Season of the Witch H20, which follows Halloween II and Halloween Kills, which is a sequel to the 2018 film, which makes it the third entry in that continuity.īut those movies have continuity, at least to some degree. This, too, is not unheard-of: 20 years before Halloween ‘18, Halloween H20 tried the same trick, only to have David Gordon Green’s film reset even harder, ignoring not only H20 and its follow-up Halloween Resurrection, but Halloween II, the moderately well-regarded 1981 follow-up that was kept as canon for H20.
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This means that Texas Chainsaw ’22 isn’t clearing the decks of tangled continuity it is, in fact the third movie to proceed, separately, as a direct sequel to the original, and the original only.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre-the 1974 original about a group of counterculture types getting picked off at a remote farmhouse full of cannibals-was such a singularly grimy vision from director Tobe Hooper, from such a different era of filmmaking, that turning it into a serialized saga was never really on the table. This is a particularly apt strategy for the Texas Chainsaw series, because it’s barely a series at all. Hence, a Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 designed as akin to Halloween 2018: A sequel to the original horror classic, not any of those other lousy/confusing/divisive/obscure sequels/prequels/remakes that have appeared over the past however-many years. As straight-up remakes have fallen out of favor and brand names are more coveted than ever, plenty of movie series have opted for legacy sequels that wipe away years or decades of dodgy continuity and/or artistic missteps, and bring it back to the beginning-not by remaking a beloved classic, but by sequelizing it directly. Though the math is strange, the position is not unusual. The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, debuting this weekend on Netflix, is the ninth entry in the Texas Chainsaw series, but it wants you to think of it as the second.
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