{"id":768855,"date":"2026-05-02T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/768855\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:45:16","slug":"texas-chainsaw-massacres-curry-barker-on-leatherfaces-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/768855\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Curry Barker On Leatherface’s Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs a new filmmaker offering a new take on Leatherface more than 50 years after the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Curry Barker<\/a> recently teased his plans for the reboot.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe YouTube comedian and filmmaker, who was announced as the writer and director<\/a> of the upcoming reimagining last month, explained that he\u2019s intrigued by \u201cthe uncomfortability of the family\u201d that raised the chainsaw-wielding serial killer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think of it as respecting the source material,\u201d he told Total Film<\/a>. \u201cI absolutely love the original film, but I want to do something that\u2019s different. I\u2019m not gonna stray away too far from what we know, but just making it stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBarker added, \u201cReally, I want to lean into the uncomfortability of the family. I want to lean into the rawness of what\u2019s going on there. There\u2019s some really messed up stuff happening at that farm. I genuinely feel there\u2019s so much potential for that concept that has not been realized.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNoting that the 2003 Marcus Nisplel-helmed remake \u201cwas my favorite\u201d of the franchise, Barker recalled, \u201cIt was like my first horror movie I\u2019d ever seen when I was a kid, and I actually think it\u2019s a decent remake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cStill, there\u2019s so much that that concept hasn\u2019t really leaned into or hasn\u2019t dived [into],\u201d said Barker. \u201cSo, I actually feel like there\u2019s a lot to explore, so I\u2019m really excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, Deadline reported that Barker has been tapped to write and direct<\/a> the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reimagining from A24<\/a> (seperate from the studio\u2019s TV series in the works<\/a> from JT Mollner and producers Glen Powell and Dan Cohen at Barnstorm).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe franchise originally began with the 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel and starring Gunnar Hansen as the murderous Leatherface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a new filmmaker offering a new take on Leatherface more than 50 years after the original Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":768856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3028,109689,171,53,74682,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-768855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-a24","9":"tag-curry-barker","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116506705511886265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}