Texas Chainsaw (2013)

Texas Chainsaw (2013), an American slasher film directed by John Luessenhop with a screenplay by Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan, and Kirsten Elms, serves as a direct sequel to the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. In 1973, the people of Newt, Texas led by Burt Hartman take matters into their own hands and set fire to the infamous Sawyer clan farm in an act of vigilante justice. The community hails the group as heroes and wipes out the entire Sawyer family. However, one of the townsmen named Gavin Miller discovers an infant with a burn mark on her chest among the carnage and kills her mother Loretta Sawyer. Gavin and his wife then raise the child as their own daughter.

In 2012, a young woman named Heather finds out she was adopted upon receiving a letter about the passing of her grandmother, Verna Carson. With her boyfriend Ryan and best friend Nikki, along with Nikki’s boyfriend Kenny, Heather sets off to collect her inheritance from her grandmother’s home. On their journey, they encounter a hitchhiker named Darryl. Upon arrival, Farnsworth, Verna’s lawyer, hands Heather a letter which she fails to read. While exploring the house, the group decides to spend the night. They leave Darryl behind to watch over the house while they go out to purchase supplies and food. However, Darryl ends up stealing some valuables and is ultimately killed by Leatherface after unintentionally unlocking the door to the basement where he was being held captive.