Despite its popularity and cult status, the slasher genre is perhaps the most formulaic of them all. Since the genre's peak in the mid 70s and until today, each slasher movie has stayed true to its original format, without much change in the presentation. Most of these movies usually involves a group of young people on a trip, perhaps to a cabin in the woods, and a serial killer with crazy choices of weapons. There's a lot of screaming and running around and characters making poor decisions that lead to their tragic death.
The original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released in 1974, introducing audiences to the iconic masked killer Leatherface. The film pioneered the slasher genre and has spawned a long-running franchise with countless sequels, spin-offs and reboots. The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre positions itself as a clean restart, to be a sequel to Tobe Hooper's 1974 original, ignoring all the other movies in between. But of course it doesn't pick up right where the first one left off, being set in the present day.
