


The police fail to secure the crime scene properly, allowing Leatherface to attack and kill two officers. Leatherface escapes after police discover his ranch house and find the remains of thirty-three people. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 remake)Īt the climax of the remake, protagonist Erin Hardesty cuts off Leatherface's chainsaw-wielding arm with a meat cleaver, and Erin is able to escape him, though Leatherface survives the cleaver attack. Before killing the sheriff, his uncle Charlie even defends him by saying, "He's not retarded, he's misunderstood." The cruelty he suffers at the hands of his peers, in part, inspires his murderous behavior, however it's his uncle, Charlie who encourages his anti-social behavior and impulses. Charlie later assumed the sheriff's identity.Īlthough Leatherface's family still manipulate him in this interpretation, they do show themselves somewhat more caring for him and less abusive than in the original film.

came to his aid and killed the sheriff with his own gun. When Winston Hoyt, the local sheriff, tried to apprehend him, Thomas' uncle, Charlie Hewitt Jr. He later discovered the chainsaw he used as a weapon after searching the now abandoned factory. Acting on a long-burning rage, Hewitt killed his boss with a sledgehammer, unknowingly avenging his biological mother and for what he did in leaving him to die as a baby. When Hewitt didn't, the boss and the coworker insulted him, calling him a "retard" and a "dumb animal". In 1969, when the film picks up after showing his birth, health inspectors shut the factory down when Hewitt's boss and a reluctant coworker ordered him to leave. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning He also had a tendency toward self-mutilation, and a doctor diagnosed him as suffering from a type of neurodegeneration at age twelve. He wore a small leather mask to cover up his deformity, and worked at the same meat factory where he was born, for the same boss as his mother, the same man who had left him for dead.

Due to this disfigurement, his muteness and mental retardation (carried over from the first series), other children bullied the boy.
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Leatherface suffers from a facial disfigurement and a skin disease that caused severe deformities and tumors to his face. Luda Mae Hewitt finds him and takes him home to raise him. In this continuity, Leatherface's mother Sloane dies giving birth to him on Augat the Blair Meat Co., a slaughterhouse where she works, and her uncaring boss leaves the infant to die in a dumpster. 2.1 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.1.3 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 remake).1.2 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
