“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Bloodlines” (2025) takes viewers back to the early 1960s, before the chainsaw first rang out in a creepy Texas farmhouse. This is the official prequel, revealing the dark and haunting past of the Sawyer family – the place where a twisted killer known as Leatherface was raised.

In a small town in southern Texas, teenager Jedidiah Sawyer – later Leatherface – lives in a strange and socially awkward family. When a deadly accident occurs at a mental asylum, Jedidiah and a group of friends are forced to go on the run, but things quickly turn into a living nightmare.

Pieces of the past begin to emerge: the abuse, the struggle between the instinct to kill and the desire to be loved. And above all, the first chainsaw is started…