Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Franchise) (1974–present)

Before Halloween…. Before Friday The 13th…. Before Scream…. There Was The Saw.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an American horror franchise consisting of eight horror films, comics and a video game adaptation of the original film. The franchise focuses on serial killer Leatherface and his psychotic family, who terrorize unsuspecting visitors to their territories in the desolate Texas countryside, typically killing and cannibalizing them. The original film was released in 1974, directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Hooper and Kim Henkel. Hooper and Henkel were involved in only three of the later films.

The film series has grossed over $235 million at the worldwide box office.

Film	U.S. release date	Director(s)	Screenwriter(s)	Producer(s)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre	October 11, 1974	Tobe Hooper	Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper	Tobe Hooper
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2	August 22, 1986	L.M. Kit Carson	Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III	January 12, 1990	Jeff Burr	David Schow	Robert Engelman
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation	March 12, 1995	Kim Henkel	Robert Kuhn and Kim Henkel
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	October 17, 2003	Marcus Nispel	Scott Kosar	Michael Bay and Mike Fleiss
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning	October 6, 2006	Jonathan Liebesman	Sheldon Turner	Michael Bay, Mike Fleiss, Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form
Texas Chainsaw 3D	January 4, 2013	John Luessenhop	Adam Marcus & Debra Sullivan and Kristen Ellis	Carl Mazzocone
Leatherface	October 20, 2017	Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo	Seth M. Sherwood	Christa Campbell, Lati Grobman, Carl Mazzocone, and Les Weldon
Texas Chainsaw Massacre	February 18, 2022[1]	David Blue Garcia	Chris Thomas Devlin	Fede Álvarez, Herbert W. Gains, Kim Henkel, Ian Henkel, and Pat Cassidy