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Netflix movie review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Leatherface is back in gory sequel that takes on prejudice and violence in America
3/5 starsTobe Hooper gleefully claimed that his visceral and deeply unsettling 1974 shocker The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was based on real events. Though tenuously inspired by Ed Gein, a murderer and cannibal in the US state of Wisconsin, the film was mostly fictitious, and ironically includes only a single death by the eponymous arboreal power tool.Regardless, the film’s notoriety, commercial success and subsequent influence on the horror genre has inspired no fewer than eight official sequels…