So maybe we have to reset “TCSM’s” events in the 1980s or even the early ’90s, even though they were clearly in 1974? Plus, the actors playing the sheriff and the rednecks – their leader (Paul Rae) is now the mayor – are played by the same actors, so it’s a stretch to say more than 20 years have passed. So that would place the events contemporary with the film’s release. Later, a deputy uses a smartphone video camera to show his progress through the blood-soaked mansion to his superiors. Daddario was 26 at this time, and Heather and her friends are doing 20s things like taking a road trip in a van, so mathematics - along with flannel shirts - tells us this is the late ’90s, maybe 2000. She has inherited a rural Texas mansion that belonged to another Sawyer, who was not part of the blaze. So after this cold open to director John Luessenhop’s sequel squanders and simplifies all the compelling parts of “TCSM,” we jump ahead an indeterminate number of years to the story of the grown-up version of the baby, Alexandra Daddario’s Heather Miller. Slightly more plausible is the idea that militant rednecks around the area are suspicious of the Sawyers, but I would’ve preferred a story about their learning process about all the missing folks in the area rather than what we get.Īs the sheriff (Thom Berry) – having heard Sally’s tale offscreen - tries to peacefully arrest Leatherface/Jed Sawyer (Dan Yeager), the rednecks “back him up” and burn the house to the ground, killing everyone except a baby. It’s possible that these normal members of the Sawyer family came over the next morning, but that also undercuts the creepiness of the family’s operation. This does not remotely ring true it’s Sally’s distance from civilized society that makes her night of being tied up at the dinner table so scary.
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