'Texas Chainsaw 3D' Inspires 30 Frightening New Posters; Here Are Our 12 Favorites.
Human skin. Severed limbs. Hammers. Bones. Chainsaws. There's no denying that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its terrifying character, Leatherface, have helped shape horror iconography. To celebrate Texas Chainsaw 3D, the latest film in the series and first that's a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic, Lionsgate and Vice are celebrating that iconography by creating an online gallery of eye-catching art.
The Gallery of Horrors: Original Art & Video Inspired by Texas Chainsaw 3D is now online at Vice.com and with it comes an opportunity to see some killer art (pun intended) combining the ideas of Leatherface, Texas, 3D and much more. After the jump, check our 12 favorite posters from the gallery.
The full Gallery of Horrors is over on Vice.com. If you head there, you can see all 30 posters based on the film and if you'd like to own these posters, Lionsgate will be releasing them all as one image in the near future. For updated info, keep an eye on the Lionsgate Tumblr.
Here are our 12 favorite images from the Gallery of Horrors. Mouse over each image for the artist's name. Which is your favorite?
For more on Texas Chainsaw 3D, read our report from the set. The film, directed by John Luessenhop, stars Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Trey Songz, Scott Eastwood and Tania Raymonde, opens January 4.
Lionsgate's TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic left off in Newt, Texas, where for decades people went missing without a trace. The townspeople long suspected the Sawyer family, owners of a local barbeque pit, were somehow responsible. Their suspicions were finally confirmed one hot summer day when a young woman escaped the Sawyer house following the brutal murders of her four friends. Word around the small town quickly spread, and a vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer stronghold, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family–or so they thought. Decades later and hundreds of miles away from the original massacre, a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew she had. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion's dank cellars...