Leatherface

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Played by: Gunnar HansenFilm(s): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)The poster child of Tobe Hooper's horrifying original (and all the unfortunate sequels, remakes and remake prequels that followed), Leatherface is the sort of guy who gives DIY enthusiasts a bad name. A maniac of a manchild who, in the original at least, has a mask for every occasion (made out of the skin of former victims, a tr... read more

This version of Leatherface is considered by many horror fans to be much more psychotic, vicious and brutish than his original classic counterpart.Leatherface's given name is Thomas Brown Hewitt and after his mother Sloane Murphy died giving birth to him in August 1939 at the Blair Meat Co., a slaughterhouse where she worked, and her uncaring boss leaves the infant to die in a dumpster. A lady named Luda May Hewitt found him and took him home to raise him. The Hewitt's worked at and owned the Blair Meat Co., but after losing their jobs they switched to kidnapping people, murdering them (often by chainsaw or meat hook) and butchering their flesh, as family member Charlie Hewitt claims that he got the idea from eating human flesh in the Korean War after he became a prisoner of war.