2/26/2024 0 Comments Edwin neal texas chainsaw massacre![]() Actress Scout Taylor-Compton, known for portraying Laurie Strode in Zombie’s “Halloween” entries, plays SoCal surfer type Julie Crawford in the game-along with a significant amount of performance capture. She’s joined by Damian Maffei, who voices Johnny Slaughter, a brother absent from the films. Kristina Klebe, who played Lynda in Rob Zombie’s remake of “Halloween,” delivers a chilling voice-over performance here in the role of “Sissy,” one of two new members of the Family. Veteran actor-stuntman Kane Hodder picks up the chainsaw for the first time since his stunt work on 1990’s “Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.” Edwin Neal provides the voice of the Hitchhiker, some 50 years after wrapping up the Hooper picture. With the “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” video game, Gun and Sumo have made the Slaughter Family the stars of the show. “A whole family of Draculas,” Franklin observes. “My family’s always been in meat,” says the hitcher proudly before his talk of head cheese puts the kibosh on the subject. Shortly after, the group picks up a wild-eyed hitchhiker (Edwin Neal) Franklin jokes about him being a Dracula. The conversation in the van shifts to the brutal methods used to butcher cattle at such places-sledgehammers striking skulls “two or three times”-as the camera lingers, in close-up, on many of the animals in question. Partain), spots an old-fashioned slaughterhouse along the road just as they encounter a terrible smell. One of them, Pam ( Teri McMinn), reads aloud from a book on astrology: the planet Saturn is in retrograde, she says, setting a scene for karmic debts to be paid. The story follows a group of young people road-tripping in a van. There’s an erratic, hallucinatory quality to the movie’s editing, especially early on, but that recurring image of the full moon holds it all together. A full moon dissolves into a shot of a roadkill armadillo. ![]() Someone has been digging up graves at local cemeteries there’s been a fire, an outbreak of violence, a suicide, and a suicide attempt. It opens with images of decomposing human remains, more upsetting than anything in “Halloween” or the original “Friday the 13th,” while a radio broadcaster delivers the news. I also got to give a shout-out to Lee Russell and Gas Monkey Live for allowing us to film the music portion of this film there.The original 1980 “Friday the 13th” is in many ways the cinematic progeny of the 1974 “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and of John Carpenter’s “Halloween,” but Hooper’s film, co-written with fellow Texan Kim Henkel, has different things on its mind. Thanks to Michael Huebner and 12 Pound Productions for doing a great job filming and editing this video. But like I said, this film isn’t to be taken serious I hope you have as much fun watching it as we had making it. Ed was a complete professional and great to work with and we are excited to have him starring in this. This is really just a silly script and a band having fun working on our final project together. But this short film/music video is not related to that movie plot in any way. The lyrics for the song are based on Ed’s character from the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. ![]() ![]() So after we knew for sure that we were going to include a song called ‘Hitchhiker’ on the new WARBEAST album, the timing was right to make this old idea become a new reality. Elaborates vocalist Bruce Corbitt, “I’ve actually had this idea of using Ed Neal for a music video for a long time.
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