History Film / TexasChainsawMassacre2022

* DropTheHammer: Like the original, Leatherface favors a hammer when he isn't wielding his chainsaw. [[spoiler:He uses one to turn Richter's head into ChunkySalsa.]]

''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' is a 2022 American slasher film and the ninth installment in the ''[[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' series. It is a direct sequel to [[Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974 the 1974 film]], and like ''Film/TexasChainsaw3D'' before it, it [[CanonDiscontinuity ignores all previous sequels and reboots]].

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Despite the Confederate flag hanging above the orphanage, the old lady running the place makes it clear that she has no issues with black people after she becomes concerned that it may have offended Dante, a black man. However, in doing so, she accidentally uses the word "negro" to his face. While this would have been a generally acceptable term during her youth, it's obvious she doesn't know that it's now considered offensive, and she is quite confused when he angrily storms off.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: While we don't know Leatherface's actual age, the fact that it's been nearly ''fifty years'' since the original film would place the character in ''at least'' his seventies - and he's still able to tear through anyone and everyone without breaking a sweat.

** Leatherface himself is not a servant or attack dog of anyone else, and is instead a DragonAscendant going on a killing spree.

* CompensatingForSomething: Melody's first impression of Richter is the fact that he open-carries a pistol; she snarks to Lila that he may be doing this. When he overhears her comments, he approaches her and explains his reasoning, sarcastically apologizing if his "big gun" makes her uncomfortable. She replies, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "I've seen bigger."]]
* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Just as it seems like Lila and Melody have killed Leatherface and are set to drive home safely, he pops up at the last second, decapitating Melody in front of a screaming Lila. Unable to do anything while the car she's in drives away from the town.]]

* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Just as it seems like Lila and Melody have killed Leatherface and are set to drive home safely, he pops up at the last second, decapitating Melody in front of a screaming Lila.]]

* {{Retcon}}: Since when did Leatherface have a mother, and why isn't she a murderous cannibal, like everyone else in the family?

* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: [[spoiler:Subverted. When Melody attempts to drive Sally's car at Leatherface with Lila in it, he throws his chainsaw at the windshield, and she ends up crashing the car into a nearby building. She is trapped by a loose rod impaling her leg in the process, and she instructs Lila to run and save herself despite her pleas. When Leatherface appears, Melody accepts her imminent death and apologizes for what her and her friends put his mother through...and Lila reappears with a gun and attempt to shoot Leatherface, only to find that the gun is empty.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:To an extent, as [[HeroKiller Leatherface kills Sally Hardesty and Melody]] and afterwards is [[HappyDance shown dancing with Melody's head and his chainsaw in victory]], an inversion of his VillainousBreakdown dance at the end of the original film.]]