Leatherface's signature weapon is the chainsaw, though he has also used other tools, such as cleavers and hammers, to kill his victims. Due to his large size, he often acts as the muscle for his family. He is strong enough to easily lift a grown man, swing around large tools, and smash through a wall.
Leatherface, portrayed by Gunnar Hansen in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), is 6 foot 4 inches (1.93 m) tall. Leatherface is the main antagonist of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, even though he commits his murders alongside his family. Leatherface wears a mask made of human skin, which is where he gets his name from.
Co-creator Henkel later stated in a 1996 interview that he felt that making Leatherface human instead of just a typical monster made him more frightening, as he elaborated "the only genuinely frightening thing to people is [other] people".
But when he came to Harlow he had to hide everything, from murderous tendencies to his masks and his queered identity. Mrs. MC represents a safe haven for Leatherface; she knew of the chainsaw, so she surely knew about his masks and thus, inadvertently or not, his queered identity, too.
Leatherface in this continuity suffers from al disfigurement, a skin disease, that caused severe deformities and tumors to his face. Due to this disfigurement, his muteness and mental disability, other children bullied the boy.
For Leatherface, the domestic sphere is the only one he knows. Therefore, this asexual, almost childlike man has become the family's necerssary feminine presence, and his commitment to such a role shows how absurd the limitations of gender are within the traditional family.
Scared that others will hurt him; scared that his family will be displeased with him, scared that their shared willingness to eat human flesh will be discovered. He does as he is told. His family loves him and that is all that matters.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface is responsible for 31 deaths across all movies in the franchise, while Freddy Krueger's kill count seems to be between 42 and 48. Jumping to the 1990s, another famous slasher, Scream's different Ghostface killers, have a total of 46 kills.
Superhuman Endurance: Leatherface has shown to have an immense threshold for pain, shown by how he cut his leg with his chainsaw and continued to chase Sally.
Together with his mysterious and insane family, Leatherface would hunt down any intruder who steps into their territory and would use different kinds of tools to murder them, but he mostly uses his chainsaw. Due to having acromegaly, he is a large individual.
Thus, Leatherface sprinted to a speed of a 6.1 minute mile during his five-second burst. I find it really impressive that a man who is 6'5 and weighs 265 (actual height/weight of actor) can run that fast around sheets while holding a chainsaw. There you have it! The mystery is somewhat solved.
Leatherface appears to be the weakest the family and is hurt by the fighting that occurs. His brother W.E. abuses him relentlessly, to which Leatherface does not fight back but cries.
Leatherface never speaks, and of course you never see his face, but he's by far the most expressive and unforgettable character in the movie. This is not only because he carves up most of the cast with a chain saw.
Leatherface is quite possibly the single most fearsome, horrific slasher movie villain of all time. He is the hulking, chainsaw-wielding butcher for his family of deranged backwoods cannibals. He is a monster. Nothing about what he does is in any way justifiable or redeemable.
Wielding a chainsaw, he can use his Maim ability to dismember Victims, or saw and bash through bolted doors and obstacles in his path. He may lack maneuverability, but his high Endurance and Savagery make him a walking nightmare."
As if the TCM III plot and characters weren't already weird enough, in comes Babi Sawyer (Jennifer Banko). Babi is Leatherface's daughter and her mother is one of his previous victims. She carries around a doll that she calls Sally, which could be in reference to TCM's final girl.
He simply goes by the moniker Leatherface in the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). It wasn't until The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (1986) that audiences were introduced to the Sawyer family proper, with Leatherface's name revealed to be Bubba Sawyer.
Texas Chainsaw 3D is a direct sequel to the 1974 original film and starts immediately after Sally Hardesty's escape. Sheriff Hooper arrives right after the extended Sawyer family gather to the house with shotguns, in which the sheriff demands Drayton, now revealed to be Leatherface's father, hand over Leatherface.
The Sawyers ( also called the Sawyer Family but renamed the Hewitts in the remake and its prequel) are a large, Southern white-American family of inbred butchers, cannibals and serial killers in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.
He is also extremely mentally ill. He does not talk that much, though he does make vocal sounds. He wears a mask made from a person's skin, which he uses to express a personality. It is also notable that director Tobe Hooper has stated that Leatherface kills out of fear, not malice.
After Leatherface kills Franklin in the woods, Sally escapes him by reaching the gas station the group visited earlier in the film. During The Texas Chain Saw Massacre DVD's commentary, Gunnar Hansen revealed this chase sequence was the origin of his Leatherface chainsaw dance.
