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Now That's How You Do A Poster For TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D!!
The Kidd here...
Sometimes simplicity works best, and in the case of anything involving THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, what more is needed to sell fans at first than some relatively easy poster art that features Leatherface. I mean, you don't have to do a lot to the Bat-symbol to sell a new Batman film to audiences, or the Superman logo. People know what it is that they're looking, derive from such imagery that a new movie is coming out featuring a character the recognize and like and then make a mental note that they want to see it.
Bam!!!
It's so easy.
Lionsgate must have finally gotten the memo that they should have some Leatherface in their promotional art for TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D, and, so in this New York Comic-Con exclusive poster, they've given it to us. See... now that wasn't so hard, was it?
For the next one though, they might want to look into incorporating a chainsaw while they're at it. I'm just saying... Leatherface looks as if he doesn't know what to do with his hands when he's not slaughtering people.
-Billy Donnelly
"The Infamous Billy The Kidd"
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I actually like that poster. Hopefully the film conveys the same atmosphere.
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watch out his pants are hitched up to his armpits!!! Love the poster !!!!
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But this series has been rebooted so many times already. Leatherface: TCM 3 was a reboot. Next Generation was another one. Then came the official remake in 2003. Then the prequel to the remake. People on AICN are quick to hate the 2003 film, but nothing is being said about this one? This looks like a SyFy remake of the 2003 film without Jessica Biel's sweaty boobs in a tight tank top.
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Pants bulge is a bit off-putting. Maybe that's where he keeps Mr. Chainsaw.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 1:30 p.m. CST
Still going to suck...just like ALL of them. Even the original.
by BilboRing
All these movies blew.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 1:32 p.m. CST
Well, you can put someone on a heat hook, and wear a human skin mask, but there's no reason to be unkempt...
by Walton Goggins Giant Breasts
I mean even a cannibalistic killer has to have certain standards.
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and I swear all of them own at least one pair of trousers exactly like leatherface's. Sky blue is the color of choice. It's some kind of club, except nobody laughs at leatherface because of the whole *mask and chainsaw and cut your fucking body into quivering meaty pieces* schtick.
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How about a new IDEA?!?!? How about a new STORY?!?!? How about Hollywood stop beatin' the same meat and do something ORIGINAL?!?!?
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I can't tell. Then you are an idiot. Is this what society has come to? Texas Chainsaw 3D? I truly despair. This is like some spoof movie poster you would see in something like Entourage.
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I'd go home for Thanksgiving.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 1:40 p.m. CST
Simple and straightforward poster, but I can't help thinking Leatherface is going to try to sell me some farm equipment or something.
by Bill C.
Good evening. Are you satisfied with your current...power tools?
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You sure as hell better get off his lawn!
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Oct. 11, 2012, 1:42 p.m. CST
Say what you will about the stagnant imagination of doing a reboot...
by Jacob Underhill
...and you'd be right. I do agree with Kidd that this is a good poster. I like to see the ancillary art to a movie, and that starts with posters. This year has been a crap movie for posters, regardless of the quality of the movie. Avengers: Awesome movie. Avengers movie poster: Walmart Back-to-School Movie Rip-Off Folder quality, as made in Uruguay. If the poster has said "Revenders," I'd have laughed sincerely and thought it was a great parody of off-product theft.
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A dark new chapter begins... but first, a trip to the nearest GAP!
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Oct. 11, 2012, 1:53 p.m. CST
mysterygirlx11 - Evil tucks its shirts IN!!! - I really like that.
by moonlightdrive
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Your film set a benchmark in horror euphoria realism, because of it's raw and gritty exciting approach. Now you've become the bastard uncle of these insipid adaptations. Talk about milking it...Where's the fucking chainsaw?
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oh God I'm fucking old!!
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Oct. 11, 2012, 2:18 p.m. CST
how many times are they gonna trot out a "new" version of this crap?
by Mennen
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Is that the same Leatherface from 1974? If so and since this movie jumps to the present with him killing people in todays time he should be in his 60's or older by now! FAIL!!!!!!!
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Oct. 11, 2012, 2:30 p.m. CST
NO CHAINSAW. NO "MASSACRE" IN THE TITLE. WHAT OTHER MAJOR ELEMENTS ARE THEY GOING TO LEAVE OUT?
by Wacky Packages
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Oct. 11, 2012, 2:38 p.m. CST
They could have at least swapped the chainsaw for a walky talky
by papabendi
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Oct. 11, 2012, 2:45 p.m. CST
Since there's no massacre I guess this is a movie about a TEXAS CHAINSAW ARTIST
by Adelai Niska
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Oct. 11, 2012, 2:45 p.m. CST
I have no doubt that these comments are better and more entertaining than the film.
by kevred
Well done, everyone. An excellent showing on jokes & observations here today! This film is an easy target, so it would be understandable for the comments to be lazy. But these are good ones.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 2:47 p.m. CST
You have to read the blurb at the top regarding 1974...
by Jacob Underhill
...it is in reference to a different 1974 movie: *The Front Page*. That picture is of an undead Walter Matthau in 3D.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 2:49 p.m. CST
That's all well and good but never has a poster had a better tagline than this...
by moonlightdrive
http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/a-liars-autobiography-poster.jpg At the very least there has so far not been a better 3D tagline and this is going to be tough to beat.
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TCM1: shirt and tie. TCM2: suit and tie with jacket I dont care much after that, but needless to say, he was always well dressed, like he wants to fit in, he wants to be normal, which is why he makes skin masks of normal people to hide his hideous face. He's just misunderstood!
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These stupid little tricks they have to do with the title every time. Just fucking call it Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2013. I honestly thought this was a 3D rerelease of the old movie (or more likely the 2003 one) 3D is so common now it's like calling a movie Wizard of Oz: color! For instance Batman Begins was a shit title. I like that movie, but that title is fucking terrible. They could've just called the shit Batman. or Christopher Nolan's Batman oh this isn't Spider-Man its the AMAZING spider-man
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Oct. 11, 2012, 3 p.m. CST
Evil wears Sansabelt slacks! Appropriate attire for psychopaths...
by SlappyBones
Sansabelt wearers disdain fashion trends. They simply don't care that the offend everyone they encounter. Old people have permission because they want to be comfortable. But you can safely assume that any younger person wearing Sansabelt will kill you just for laughs. You've been warned.
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...always liked the guy and I just met him last weekend at the Mile High Horror Film Festival. Cool guy. Knae Hodder was there as well. And Corey Feldman(now that was scary).
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Oct. 11, 2012, 3:15 p.m. CST
I see your problem, Leather: you used a chain-link fence as an ironing board. Classic rookie mistake.
by spacehog
Let's head on over to Kohl's and get you some nice wrinkle-free Dockers, because I don't think we're going to be able to save this pair.
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You had whacked out Dennis Hopper and that guy with the plate on his head who picked scalp skin off it with a coat hanger and ate it. Thanks Tobe!
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Oct. 11, 2012, 3:37 p.m. CST
Next on the list....Elm Street 3-D!!! Followed by Hallow 3-D and The 13th 3-D: In Smellovision!!!
by kindofabigdeal
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Oct. 11, 2012, 3:47 p.m. CST
You are all a bunch of idiots who don't know a good movie when they see one
by daniel parker
I can't wait for this!!!
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Texas Chainsaw is in 3D!
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Wearing Leatherface's mask. Seriously, where's the fucking chainsaw? Somebody signed off on this? It looks like Leatherface went to a Make Up show in DC circa 1996, had an ok time and got his picture taken walking out of a Denny's at 4 am.
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The Villages Welcoming Committe http://www.statetroopers.org/PFStories/images2011/PFS081211.jpg
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Oct. 11, 2012, 5:29 p.m. CST
So it appears that Chop Top (Moseley) from 2 is taking over for the old man.
by adeceasedfan
RIP Jim Siedow. And a special appearance by Gunnar 'the real Leatherface' Hansen. and Marilyn Burns, but not as Sally. ...interesting.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 5:31 p.m. CST
By that I meant Bill Moseley's now playing the cook character, not Chop Top.
by adeceasedfan
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This is a delightfully entertaining TB. It's like I'm reading Mystery Science Poster 3000! So which one of you is Mike? Or is it Joel again?
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Oct. 11, 2012, 5:53 p.m. CST
Not that I'm going to be bothering to see it anyway, but I'm just curious about something...
by TheSeeker7
So, is this supposed to be basically like a remake of the original one, but just shot specifically all with 3D in mind from the start?<br> <br> Or is this a sequel to the remake that came out a few years ago (had Jessica Biel in it, I think), that just happens to be in 3D? and THAT movie WAS definitely a remake of the original 70's movie, right? It wasn't itself like some "30 years later sequel" to the franchise?
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I believe that this is a sequel to the 1974 film that ignores all other sequels. I'm not sure if it's modern day or 70's setting tho
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Oct. 11, 2012, 6:32 p.m. CST
Folks complaining about Hollywood: there ARE films from other countries
by Ricardo
... and indie films, you guys know that, right?
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Time to pick the kids up from soccer practice. Hope they like Sunny D. And I'll get some grape drank for the black kid.
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How bout a Fresca?
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Oct. 11, 2012, 7:11 p.m. CST
This TB is entertaining AND informative!
by FatherMcGruderKicksAssForTheLord
Fucking Sansabelt?!? That's what those type of pants - sorry, slacks - are called? Who said that? Slappybones? Thanks, Slappy, I am now both more knowledgeable than I was earlier today and yet somehow worse off for it.
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Oct. 11, 2012, 7:50 p.m. CST
Why does this poster remind me of this clip from Seinfeld?
by WerePlatypus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc9-rYBOS5w
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thanks kidd, I don't think I've ever laughed that hard at a movie poster
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Oct. 11, 2012, 10:37 p.m. CST
I really liked the 2003 version. Obviously I like the 1974 original but all the sequels were dreadful and that prequel was embarrassing.
by Baron Von Penguin
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This is normal at best. And Yes, the chainsaw should've been included.
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