The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

On August 18, 1973, five young adults – Erin, her boyfriend Kemper, and their friends Morgan, Andy, and Pepper – are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert after traveling to Mexico to purchase marijuana. While driving through Texas, the group picks up a distraught and severely traumatized hitchhiker they see walking in the middle of the road. After they try to talk with the hitchhiker, who speaks incoherently about “a bad man,” she pulls a loaded revolver from between her legs and shoots herself in the mouth.

The group goes to a nearby diner to contact the police, where a woman named Luda Mae tells them to meet Sheriff Hoyt at the mill. Instead, they find a young boy named Jedidiah, who tells them Hoyt is at home, getting drunk. Erin and Kemper go through the woods to find his house, leaving Morgan, Andy, and Pepper at the mill with Jedidiah. They come across a plantation house and Erin is allowed inside by an amputee named Monty to call for help. Kemper goes inside to look for Erin and is killed by Thomas Hewitt, also known as “Leatherface”, who hits him with a sledgehammer which sprays his blood on a nearby television; he then drags his body into the basement to make a new mask.