Here’s how old Leatherface and Sally are in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022. Netflix’s legacy sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre picks up fifty years after the events of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. This particular “requel” will not only harken the return of Leatherface (Mark Burnham) but also Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouéré), who was the lone survivor of the brutal killings carried out by the Sawyer family in Austin, Texas.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre timeline is a messy and complicated one, given the numerous reboots and remakes that follow Hooper’s original, with films such as Leatherface and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning aiming to flesh out backstories for the Sawyer family. The Netflix “requel” will follow the footsteps of David Gordon Green’s Halloween films, as it will pick up right after the 1974 original movie while ignoring all previous entries of any kind.

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Leatherface’s origins have been forayed into a couple of times, with horror filmmakers attempting to dissect the hows and the whys that lie behind the Sawyer family’s affinity for violence and cannibalism. However, the enduring legacy of Leatherface lies in what he stands for as opposed to how he came to be — the creators of the 1974 original took inspiration from both serial killer Ed Gein and the concept of the macabre in fairy tales such as Hansel and Gretel. Hence, Leatherface’s blood-soaked legacy stems from this aura of pure, helpless, paralyzing terror, something which Sally Hardesty felt acutely as the final girl in the first film. Although much is not known about Bubba Sawyer’s childhood (as one has to ignore previous entries in the context of the Netflix sequel), Leatherface’s birth is placed around the year 1947. As the events of the first film take place on August 18, 1973, it makes Leatherface around 26 years old during the events of the film.

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On the other hand, Sally was only a teenage girl, barely 17 years of age when she was chased around by him, and it can be presumed that the others who were with her also shared the same age bracket. To have experienced such trauma at such a young age is bound to leave deep, unhealed wounds, which explains why Sally returns in the new film, presumably with the intention to end what Leatherface started.

Keeping these facts in mind, the events of the 2022 Texas Chainsaw Massacre can be situated in the current day, although it is mentioned that roughly 50 years have passed since the events, situating it in 2023. This would make Leatherface 76 years old, meaning that he is a much older man who will set out to kill again. On the other hand, Sally will be around 67 years old, and garnering from the trailer, it seems that she is still going strong, armed with the determination to catch the killer. Although the central protagonists are young millennials, they seem completely unaware of the events that haunt Harlow and the surrounding area, making them easy prey for the masked cannibal in the 2022 reboot.

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