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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is adding another original character to its suite of survivors--or "Victims," as they're called in-game. Virginia is the character's name, and most notably she'll feature the voice and likeness of Barbara Crampton, the prolific horror actor who has been featured in many horror movies spanning several decades, including retro hits Re-Animator and From Beyond, as well as modern favorites like You're Next and We're Still Here.Barbara Crampton will soon arrive as the voice and…

With Valentine's Day around the corner, love is in the air. Nothing says "I love you" like taking off your shirt before quite literally tear someone's heart out.As noted by the official X/Twitter account for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, players will soon be able to download a free shirtless outfit for Johnny."He'll show you how real farmin' is done. Shirtless Johnny will be coming to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as a free cosmetic for everyone. Details to be announced soon."He'll show you how real…

Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. took to the 2024 Grammys stage to pay tribute to the victims of the Supernova music festival massacre that launched the Israel–Hamas war on Oct. 7, 2023. “Tonight, we celebrate the world of music,” he said. “Every one of us, on matter where we’re from, is united by the shared experience of music. It brings us together like nothing else can and that’s why music must always be our safe space. When that’s violated, it strikes at the very core of who we are.”…

Update, 1:12 p.m.: Shortly after this article was published, Musk responded to a question about the issue from far-right influencer Jackson Hinkle. Musk promised to investigate, and the accounts went back up soon after. Musk later blamed the “mistake” on X’s spam algorithms. The Hamas account is still suspended. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetX, the platform formerly known as Twitter, purged an unknown number of prominent accounts over the last 24 hours with little to no explanation, and then restored the accounts…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain On 21 March 1960 at 1.40 in the afternoon, apartheid South Africa's police opened fire on a peaceful crowd of about 4,000 residents of Sharpeville, who were protesting against carrying identity documents that restricted black people's movement. The police minimized the number of victims by at least one-third and justified the shooting by claiming that the crowd was violent. This shocking…

Halloween may be behind us, but Gun Interactive and Sumo Nottingham are not done having a bloody good time just yet. The two companies have announced new downloadable content for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with two new characters and a new map launching on November 28.The first new character is Nancy, who is the newest member of the bloodthirsty Slaughter family. She's known as "Black" Nancy according to the game's lore, as she has been married three times and all of her husbands have turned up dead.…

It’s been just over a year since lone gunman Peyton Gendron travelled over 200 miles and open fired in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York last May. Now, the families of those wounded and murdered in the attack want to hold social media companies accountable with a wrongful death lawsuit because the gunman encountered racistGreat Replacement conspiracy theories online.Russian Court Says Meta Is "Extremist Organization"The lawsuit was filed yesterday in the New York Supreme Court in Buffalo, and names Meta, Instagram,…

Photo via Universal Pictures There’s been much debate and consternation on the internet over whether you should see Barbie or Oppenheimer first on July 21, but the most recent box office projections have made it abundantly clear that there’s only going to be one winner. Of course, you can claim that Christopher Nolan’s latest being R-rated puts it at a serious disadvantage, but let’s not pretend that adult-skewing event pictures can’t enjoy massive opening weekends. There are no doubt a lot of people planning a…

Image via Walt Disney Pictures If you haven’t seen Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, we’re begging you — don’t subject yourself to whatever that was supposed to be. If you truly have a desperate, insatiable urge to watch a terrible movie about a bear going on a murderous rampage, just watch Cocaine Bear instead. If you watched Blood and Honey with higher expectations than absolute garbage, there’s no hope for you now. Oh, and guess what? If you haven’t heard, there are even more similar Disney projects on the…

When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (TCM) released in 1974, it was years before the slasher genre took hold of the horror world for decades. But by the time its sequels started to pour in beginning 12 years later, it was after horror buffs had met the likes of Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger. In that new world, the marketing folks behind TCM needed a monstrous mascot to lean into, and thus Leatherface was elevated from one (admittedly standout) member of a vile family of killers to its…