3, 2014, for more on that), and the new film brings those same tensions up to date. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext," Oct. There's a simmering resentment toward these city kids invading their dust-and-blood-encrusted homestead (read " Cowboys vs. The original film starts because a bunch of idealistic Austin kids head out into the countryside for what they think will be an idyllic road trip and run saw-first into a clan of cannibalistic rednecks. Although Hooper's depiction of Central Texas in 1974 "feels like a period piece now, it did take place in the time that it was filmed, and those characters were contemporary hippies trying to get away from the violence of the city." First of all, he said, it had to be genuinely contemporary, just like the original. After all, these films have been everything from arthouse horror to black comedy and bizarre conspiracy flicks. He had the skills, and he had the location, but now Garcia had to figure out what his latest installment in the gruesome history of the Sawyer clan would be. When you drive down a Texas road, it's just barbed wire for miles, separating the road from the fields." It also helped that production designer Michael Perry and set decorators Asen Bozilov and Joey Ostrander built what he called "a pretty good Texas town." However, no re-creation can ever be perfect, and Garcia admitted to one failing: There's just not enough barbed wire. It looks like West Texas ranges that I've been in, out near the Fort Davis mountains, so I leaned into that idea." "Texas is such a varied state, with so many landscapes and climes, to be honest it wasn't that hard to make Bulgaria pass as Texas. How do you make Bulgaria look like Texas? Well, he answered, it depends what bit of Texas you're talking about. However, like 2017's unrelated prequel Leatherface, the producers had decided to shoot in Eastern Europe, leaving Garcia with a big challenge. True, there were films made in Texas before Tobe Hooper's fever dream, but that's the movie that proved there could be a regional film industry, and five of the prior eight Chainsaw films shot in the Lone Star State. This is Texas Chain Saw Massacre – emphasis on Texas. He’s not always predictable because he’s sort of a scared, simple fellow.” – David Blue GarciaĪfter all, this isn't just any franchise that he was taking on. Ridley Scott said that he was trying to make Alien the Texas Chain Saw Massacre of space." You're never going to live up to the legacy of the first one. Maybe the speed of being hired meant Garcia couldn't second-guess himself in daring to make a direct sequel to a movie he called "the gold standard for horror. "You get used to filming the blood and gore, and seeing the practical effects, how long they take, ways to hide things with cameras." While working on Tejano, he was also cinematographer on Austin-made splatter-comedy Blood Fest, giving him a crash course in filming entrails. Luckily for the producers, the Austinite didn't just bring his Texas credentials but was OK with the massacre side, too. He said, "I got the call, three days later I was on a plane to Bulgaria, a week later I was filming." A week into filming, they were out, and Garcia was in. The film was already in production, being directed by UK filmmaking siblings Andy and Ryan Tohill, who had turned heads on the festival circuit around the same time as Tejano with their rural horror, The Dig. This movie needed a little of that, instead of the Hollywood slickness." Resilience and flexibility were also required. When producers Legendary reached out to him, he said, "they respected the gritty, indie filmmaking craft that I showed. So it was a pretty big transition for me – and a lot of fun." ![]() ![]() ![]() "I had 200 people on set on my first day, and my previous movie had a crew of eight. So there was definite culture shock when he arrived on the set of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Netflix's new addition to the horror franchise. The Austin filmmaker's first feature, 2018's Tejano, was a $60,000 border thriller "where I was directing, cinematographer, camera operator, and parking cars," he recalled. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Photo by Yana Blajeva / © 2021 Legendary, Courtesy of Netflix)ĭavid Blue Garcia knows the trenches of indie filmmaking.
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