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Real name Original : Bubba Sawyer, Remake : Thomas Brown Hewitt, Texas Chainsaw : Jedidiah Sawyer

Leatherface is a character in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror-film series and its spin-offs. He wears masks made of human skin (hence his name) and engages in murder and cannibalism, alongside his inbred family. Leatherface appeared in the first film in the series (1974) and in its six subsequent continuations and remakes. Wisconsin killer Ed Gein, who wore a mask made of human skin, was reportedly the inspiration for elements in the original film. He is considered to be the main antagonist of the franchise because he drives most of the plots and appears in all of the films even though he takes orders from his older family members.

Biography

Thomas Hewitt est né le 7 août 1939 dans un abattoir. L'employée, et par conséquent sa vraie mère, meurt en lui donnant naissance. Le patron de l'abattoir finit par jeter l'enfant dans l'une des poubelles, notamment à cause de sa malformation. L'enfant est finalement recueilli par Luda May Hewitt, qui fouillait les poubelles pour chercher de la nourriture.

L'enfant grandit au sein de la famille Hewitt avec sa malformation. Durant sa jeunesse, Thomas s'auto-mutilait et cachait ses marques avec un foulard sur le visage. 30 ans plus tard, il est embauché dans le même abattoir où il est né, mais celui-ci est contraint de fermer à cause d'une inspection sanitaire. Le garçon refusant de partir, finit par tuer son patron et quitte l'abattoir avec une tronçonneuse trouvé dans son bureau. Il s'agit là de son premier meurtre. Entre temps, la population commence à quitter la ville, l'abattoir étant le commerce de la ville jusqu'à sa fermeture. La famille Hewitt quant à elle, décide de rester dans cette ville qui lui est chère. Le shérif de la ville, Hoyt, apprend le meurtre et décide d'aller voir Thomas. Charlie, l'oncle de Thomas, tue le shérif pour défendre son neveu, se fait passer pour ce dernier et décide de le ramener chez lui avec la ferme décision de rendre sa famille cannibale. Pour lui, cela leur permettra de lutter contre la faim. Ainsi, Charlie demande à Thomas de s'occuper de tuer les victimes qu'il ramène en disant qu'ils sont comme la viande de l’abattoir, et c'est à partir de ce moment que Thomas tue ses victimes avec une tronçonneuse. Les premiers voyageurs victimes de la famille sont quatre jeunes dénommés Dean, Eric, Bailey et Chrissie, ramené par Charlie se faisant passer pour le shérif. C'est à partir de ce moment que Thomas enlève son foulard pour mettre à la place la peau du visage de l'une de ses victimes : Eric .

Cependant, l'entreprise de la famille Hewitt finit par être perturbée avec l'arrivée de cinq jeunes, victimes des attaques meurtrières de Thomas. Effectivement, l'une du groupe, Sally Hardesty, réussira à échapper à « Leatherface », réussissant ainsi à prévenir la police. C'est à partir de ce moment que la population apprend les macabres actions de la famille Hewitt. Le shérif Hooper arrive sur les lieux et demande à la famille de lui remettre Thomas, ce qu'ils finissent par accepter après avoir hésité. Cependant, un groupe de personnes habitant dans la ville de Newt (la ville ayant récupéré de la population depuis la fermeture de l'abattoir) décide de faire justice eux-mêmes et mettent le feu à la maison des Hewitt, tuant ainsi toute la famille, sauf Thomas, qui était dans une salle isolée et protégé des flammes, ainsi que sa cousine, qui sera connue sous le nom de Heater, encore bébé, qui a été sauvé par sa mère, Loretta Hewitt, qui aura eu le temps d'échapper aux flammes (cette dernière sera abattue par Gavin, l'un des membres du groupe des habitants de la ville et adopte l'enfant). Leatherface vivra un certain temps avec sa grand-mère, puis avec Heater qui aura grandit et qui prendra la relève après avoir appris son adoption lorsqu'on lui aura appris la mort de sa véritable grand-mère. Aucune information n'est donné concernant la mort de Thomas.

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Gunnar Hansen
Gunnar Hansen
(3 films)
Kane Hodder
Kane Hodder
(1 films)
Eric Swiss
Eric Swiss
(1 films)
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Filmography of Leatherface (9 films)

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Leatherface, 1h30
Directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Sam Strike, Lili Taylor, Stephen Dorff, Jacob Tremblay, James Bloor, Simona Williams
Rating50% 2.5132652.5132652.5132652.5132652.513265
The film chronicle events in Jackson's (Sam Strike) teen years, revealing how he became the infamous Leatherface. Violent teenager Jackson escapes from a mental hospital with fellow inmates Bud (Sam Coleman), Ike (James Bloor) and Clarice (Jessica Madsen). The group kidnaps nurse Lizzy (Vanessa Grasse) in their escape. As the group flees with their captive, they are pursued by Hal Hartman (Stephen Dorff), a vengeful and determined Texas Ranger.
Texas Chainsaw 3D, 1h32
Directed by John Luessenhop
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about children, Serial killer films
Actors Alexandra Daddario, Scott Eastwood, Trey Songz, Tania Raymonde, Thom Barry, Richard Riehle
Rating48% 2.4099152.4099152.4099152.4099152.409915
Picking up after the events of the original film, the people of the small town of Newt, Texas, led by Mayor Burt Hartman (Paul Rae), burn down the farmhouse of the Sawyer family for their role in aiding Jedidiah "Jed" Sawyer (Dan Yeager), also known as "Leatherface", in several murders. The arsonists are celebrated as heroes in the community, and the entire family is presumed dead. However, an infant, Edith Sawyer, is found by one of the townsmen, Gavin Miller (David Born), who promptly murders her mother, Loretta Sawyer (Dodie Brown), and adopts Edith with his wife Arlene (Sue Rock). Twenty years later, Edith has been raised by Gavin and Arlene as Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario). One day, Heather is notified that her estranged grandmother, Verna Carson (Marilyn Burns), has passed away and left everything to her. Discovering that she was adopted, Heather, her boyfriend Ryan (Trey Songz), and two other friends, Nikki (Tania Raymonde) and Kenny (Keram Malicki-Sánchez), travel to Newt to collect her inheritance. Along the way, the group picks up a hitchhiker named Darryl (Shaun Sipos).
The Texas Vibrator Massacre, 1h36
Directed by Rob Rotten
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher, Pornographic
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Serial killer films, Musical films
Actors Roxy DeVille, Rob Rotten, Eric Swiss, Dirty Harry, Herschel Savage
Rating54% 2.7399652.7399652.7399652.7399652.739965
While traveling through Texas (in the vicinity of where several bodies have been uncovered) five friends become lost, with their van running low on gas. When one of the group, Christine, goes out to urinate, two of the others pass the time by having sex in the back of the vehicle. After Christine returns, the quintet pick up a hitchhiker in the hope that he can give them directions, but once inside the van the man attacks them with a knife, stabbing two members of the group to death while the others flee. Vanessa reaches a farmhouse, but while searching for aid she is captured by Leatherface, who ties her to a chair, and gags her.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, 1h36
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Matt Bomer, Diora Baird, Andrew Bryniarski, R. Lee Ermey
Rating58% 2.903342.903342.903342.903342.90334
In 1939, a woman dies while giving birth in a slaughterhouse, and the manager disposes the baby in a dumpster. A young woman, Luda Mae Hewitt (Marietta Marich), finds the child while searching for food. She takes him back to the Hewitt residence, names him Thomas, and decides to raise him as her own.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1h38
Directed by Marcus Nispel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Andrew Bryniarski, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour
Rating62% 3.1008253.1008253.1008253.1008253.100825
On August 18, 1973, five young adults, Erin (Jessica Biel), her boyfriend Kemper (Eric Balfour) and their friends Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), Andy (Mike Vogel), and Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert after returning from Mexico to buy marijuana. While driving through Texas, they pick up a distraught hitchhiker (Lauren German) they see walking in the middle of the road. They try to talk to the hitchhiker, who speaks incoherently about "a bad man." She then pulls out a .357 Magnum and shoots herself in the mouth.
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1h22
Directed by Kim Henkel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Serial killer films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Renée Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Jacks, Paul A. Partain, John Dugan, Marilyn Burns
Rating33% 1.666691.666691.666691.666691.66669
The film begins with four teenagers at their senior prom: Jenny, Heather, Barry, and Sean. Heather begins to look for her boyfriend, Barry, who is making out with another girl in the darkness. Heather discovers them and attempts to drive away in Barry's car, alongside Jenny and Sean, who are in the backseat. Barry eventually gains access into the car, where Heather scolds him angrily. Heather does not pay attention to the road and ends up wrecking with another driver, who passes out in the ensuing confusion.
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, 1h22
Directed by Jeff Burr
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Kate Hodge, Viggo Mortensen, Ken Foree, Joe Unger, Jennifer Banko, William Butler
Rating50% 2.5045952.5045952.5045952.5045952.504595
The film begins with Leatherface bludgeoning a young woman, Gina, to death with a sledgehammer before beginning the process of cutting off her face in order to make it into a mask. Gina's sister, Sara watches from a nearby window. Leatherface hears Sara outside, and after she flees, he briefly checks outside before going back to work. Some time later, Michelle and her boyfriend Ryan, a couple that constantly argues, both traveling through Texas, pass through a security checkpoint near the excavation of a large number of butchered bodies, a cop approaches them and interrogates them, shortly after they leave and reach the Last Chance Gas Station. At the station, they meet a hitchhiking cowboy named Tex and the station's perverted owner Alfredo. Tex shows Ryan a route on the map that can get them to a town. A fight soon breaks out between Tex and Alfredo when Tex finds the latter spying on Michelle while she uses the station restroom. As Michelle and Ryan flee from the station in their car, they witness Alfredo apparently killing Tex with a shotgun.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, 1h24
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen
Rating73% 3.698993.698993.698993.698993.69899
Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her paraplegic brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), travel with three friends, Jerry (Allen Danziger), Kirk (William Vail), and Pam (Teri McMinn), to visit the grave of the Hardestys' grandfather to investigate reports of vandalism and grave robbing. Afterwards they decide to visit the old Hardesty family homestead. Along the way they pick up a hitchhiker (Edwin Neal) who talks about his family who worked at the old slaughterhouse. He borrows Franklin's pocket-knife and cuts himself, then takes a Polaroid picture of the others and demands money for it. When they refuse to pay, he burns the photo and slashes Franklin's arm with a straight razor. The group forces him out of the van and drive on. They stop at a gas station to refuel, but the proprietor (Jim Siedow) tells them that the pumps are empty.