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‘Chain Reactions’ Director Alexandre O. Philippe On Celebrating ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Stephen King and Rediscovering Kim Novak — Venice Film Festival
‘Chain Reactions’ director Alexandre O. Philippe on getting Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike to celebrate 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.'
With contributions from comedian Patton Oswalt, writers Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Stephen King, plus filmmakers Takashi Miike and Karyn Kusama, it examines the legacy of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 shocker The Texas Chain Saw Massacre through a series of very personal and revealing interviews. Written by Hooper and Kim Henkel, two Texas students, the original film finds five teenagers coming unstuck when a road trip takes them to the Sawyer house, the bone-strewn home to chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface (so named for horrifically obvious reasons) and his inbred cannibal family. ALEXANDRE O. PHILIPPE: I would say The Texas Chain Saw Massacre chose me, in the sense that I got a call from the rights holders, initially MPI and then Kim and [his son] Ian Henkel.
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