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While the past few years have been ripe with hoopla over the
remade series of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, memories
seem spotty about a shot continuation of the original
series of films, a project called All-American Massacre.
William Hooper (yes, son of Tobe) planned the short film to
showcase his directing abilities, give Bill Mosely (whose Chop-Top
character in TCM2 was incredibly popular both with fans and
the actor himself) a reprise of the role, and pay homage to
his fathers films.
In
2000, the cast and crew gathered and shot it on digital. The
story was set 13 years after the events of Texas Chainsaw
Massacre 2 and had Robert "Chop-Top" Sawyer (here
called Bloody
Bobby for obvious legal reasons) long incarcerated in jail (and
a more exposed headplate!), accepting an interview with a tabloid
tv show which prompts flashbacks to Chop-Top's early murdering
career (the younger Chop-Top was played by Todd Bates). The
story deepened the character, shed alot of gore, and at one
point some familiar family members and a buzzing chainsaw appear...
Sound
enticing enough? As the years rolled on, fewer and fewer bits
of info appeared, and seemingly no progress made as to distribution.
It appears the whole thing was completed, the band Buckethead even contributed music for it, but a quickly yanked goodbye on the films' now dead website www.allamericanmassacre.com
in January 2006 put a seemingly definitive cold end to the years-long
wait but refused to cite the many various reasons. One could
suspect those reasons were legal, as it was an unofficial project,
but of course more official then any other at least in the moral
sense, what with the involvement of Hooper & Mosely.
While
this lost sequel will most probably be sitting in someone's
desk drawer forever while more expensive, less creative TCM
projects are greenlit, there is a flickering light at the end
of the tunnel. Recently some saintly individual uploaded both
the teaser trailer - which only gives a vague outline of what
the short film's about - and the full trailer - which encapsulates
the whole story and is simply electrifying. Check 'em out!
Click
here to watch the full Trailer
Click here to watch the Teaser
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