The Narrator's first opening intertitle.
The Narrator is an unnamed and unseen character whose ominous voice can be heard narrating the opening intertitles in from the The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) to the 2003 Remake of the original film. The Narrator's voice was provided by John Larroquette.
Narrated dialogue[]
1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre[]
The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had, they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare. The events of that day were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annal of American history. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2[]
On the afternoon of August 18, 1973, five young people in a Volkswagen van ran out of gas on a farm road in South Texas. Four of them were never seen again. The next morning the one survivor, Sally Hardesty-Enright was picked up on a roadside. Blood-caked and screaming murder. Sally said she had broken out of a window in Hell. The girl babbled a mad tale: a cannibal family in an isolated farmhouse...chainsawed fingers and bones...her brother, her friends hacked up for barbeque...chairs made of human skeletons...Then she sank into catatonia.
Texas lawmen mounted a month-long manhunt, but could not locate the macabre farmhouse. They could find no killers and no victims. No facts; no crime. Officially, on the records, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre never happened.
But during the last 13 years, over and over again reports of bizarre, grisly chainsaw mass-murders have persisted all across the state of Texas. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has not stopped. It haunts Texas. It seems to have no end.
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3[]
On August 18, 1973, Sally Hardest, her invalid brother Franklin, and their friends fell afoul of a bizarre, cannibalistic clan of serial predators. Ms. Hardesty was the sole survivor of that night of terror. She died in a private healthcare facility in 1977. A single member of the murderous "family" lived to see trial. The prosecution recorded his name as W.E. Sawyer. He died in the gas chamber in 1981.
The jurors concluded that "Leatherface", presumed to be an unapprehended killer, was in fact an alternate personality of Sawyer's, activated whenever he donned a crude mask made of human flesh. If there was no Leatherface in reality, then Sally hardest may at last rest in peace ... if there actually was a Leatherface, he remains at large, and the so-called "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" ...
...Was only the beginning.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation[]
August 18, 1973. News of a bizarre, chainsaw-wielding family--reports which were to ignite the world's imagination--began to filter out of central Texas. Regrettably not one of the family members was ever apprehended and for more than ten years nothing further was heard. Then, over the next several years at least two minor, yet apparently related incidents were reported. Then again nothing. For five long years silence...
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 Remake)[]
Prologue[]
The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them, an idyllic summer afternoon became a nightmare. For over thirty years, the files collected dust from the Cold Cases Division of the Travis County Police Department. Over thirteen hundred pieces of evidence were collected from the crime scene, at the Hewitt Residence. Yet none of the evidence was more compelling than the classified police footage of the crime scene walkthrough...
The events of that day were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annal of American history. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Epilogue[]
The only known image of Leatherface in the Travis County Police Department footage.
The crime scene was not properly secured by Travis County Police. Two investigating officers were fatally wounded that day. This is the only known image of Thomas Hewitt, the man they call "Leatherface". The case today still remains open.