Or pick up a creepy costume that brings that iconic bicycle riding doll to horrifying life with one of our Billy the Puppet ensembles. Leatherface Original Leatherface Gunnar Hansen from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" appears at James River Film Festival April 4". Inspired by their love for the original film, Frankie Stubbs and Dickie Hammond founded the British punk rock band Leatherface, taking their name from the character.

To make this costume element truly terrifying, add some fake blood splatters and smears for an extra shock factor. In the remake's prequel, more information about the character's backstory and psyche, expanding upon points that were briefly mentioned in the first film. For Luessenhop, Leatherface represented not only a source of fear, but also one of pity: "Underneath that mask, there's a very damaged, very abused kid whose mental state never evolved". A popular internet myth centered on the 2004 game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas have claimed that Leatherface could be found at a special location in the game.The character was one of several horror characters to be included in Universal Studios theme parks Halloween Horror Nights event in a maze titled "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Blood Brothers". Filming was particularly grueling for Johnson, Elmore, and the rest of the cast and crew, as they had to deal with extreme temperatures while in a heavily insulated costume that only exposed the eyes and mouth.

Johnson remained in character throughout production, spending much of his time in his trailer preparing each scene that he was in. While developing the third film in the series, it was decided that Leatherface should have a more central role as the film's primary star, above that of his cannibalistic family. Texas Chainsaw Massacre' Effects Artist Todd Tucker Reveals Leatherface's New Design [Exclusive Photos]".Yeager went on to describe Leatherface as having no self-determination, and someone who was afraid of the world outside of his family who "did his thinking for him". Originally created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel, the concept for the character known as Leatherface first came about while Hooper was working as an assistant film director at the University of Texas at Austin and as a documentary cameraman during the late 1960s. Set one year after the events of the 2003 film, Leatherface and his family are hunted by the FBI led by agent Baines who seeks to avenge the death of his niece Pepper.