Stephen Dorff

The casting of True Detective Season 3 has been pretty perfect to date, so we were bound to experience at least one “huh.” Enter Blade baddie Stephen Dorff, who joins Mahershala Ali in a co-lead role for the HBO drama’s third season.

The next entry in the ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ franchise brings us the story of how Leatherface got his infamous leather face.

Like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, the latest installment in the franchise is yet another prequel exploring the blood-soaked origins of the iconic horror movie villain. As you can see in the first, long overdue trailer for Leatherface, this one features a scene in which the eponymous character’s mother (Lili Taylor) presents the famous weapon of choice to her son on his birthday before he even has a chance to enjoy some cake. You aren’t going to find a scene like that in the previous prequel, that’s for sure.

One of the more curious horror franchise offerings on the horizon is Leatherface, the upcoming prequel to the Texas Chainsaw franchise which ignores the previous Platinum Dunes prequel (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) as well as last 2013’s Texas Chainsaw 3D. The first official poster for Leatherface teases the beginning of the masked killer’s reign of terror, though the film is still without a release date.