Four patients escape from mental hospital. They are Leatherface, a teenage boy, together with his four inmates. While committing an escape, they kidnap a young nurse who seems to be happy to get out of hell. But an insane lawman follow them to get revenge.
26 September 1996, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
20 February 1967, Glencoe, Illinois, USA
8 March 1967, Sofia, Bulgaria
24 March 1988, London, England, UK
22 October 1964, Copenhagen, Denmark
29 July 1973, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
18 January 1994, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
August 29, 2017
Although French directing duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury add some extra griminess and the central mystery is clever enough, Leatherface never truly escapes just how pointless and misaligned its whole set-up is.September 17, 2017
Easily earns the dubious title of the worst Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.September 05, 2017
This Texas Chainsaw prequel lacks the original's terror but gets by on style, strong performances and a bucket or two of the red stuff.August 27, 2017
The gory carnage is sparingly but vividly staged, the suspense-driven plot twisty enough to tax the brain.August 31, 2017
This eighth entry is above average for its attenuated series.August 27, 2017
There is never much sense of hope in the film, only a brash defiance that sometimes, for all its ugliness, verges on the heroic.August 29, 2017
the film becomes a kind of whodunnit, or whowilldoit, as we try to second-guess which character will eventually put on the skin mask, and come of age from juvenile delinquent to adult family butcher and human meat chef.September 21, 2017
Two decades after co-starring in one of the defining mid-'90s indie films, Lili Taylor and Stephen Dorff ended up in Bulgaria yelling at each other and getting covered in sticky Karo syrup and having more fun, I hope, than I did.August 29, 2017
While the account is not terribly original, [Alexandre] Bustillo and [Julien] Maury bring a joie de mort giddiness to Leatherface. It's great to see their French New Wave/splatterpunk sensibilities come alive once again...