Molds had been solid of locals, who had volunteered to have casts taken of their heads, one of many volunteers was the movie’s producer Jay Parsley, whose head cast was used to make the “Killing Mask”. The Pretty Lady mask was designed utilizing molds of the movie’s manufacturing designer Deborah “Debbie” Pastor, who volunteered to have casts executed from molds on her head and chest. 15:35-17:29 Production designer Mick Strawn, who assisted within the design course of, recalled the unique intention of having Leatherface’s mask be a “one-piece”, with your complete mask having been created from a single human face. 15:35-17:29 as something that had been made using totally different items of human pores and skin that were torn and sewn in a really patchwork fashion. Details comparable to open sores, pus balls, and chapped lips had been applied to the uncovered space across the actor’s mouth, implying that the character was suffering from a pores and skin illness. In the final portion of the film when Leatherface dons his first face mask skinned from Matt Bomer’s character, casts were performed on the actor’s head. The mask itself underwent slight modifications, such because the incorporation of Bomer’s hair and facial hair onto the general design, the former was completed by including two flaps onto the again of the mask, to provide off the looks that Leatherface had skinned all the head fairly than just the face as he would do in later years.
Yeager cherished the general complexity of the character, which he felt was both pitied and feared, describing the character as “a novel combination of love, fear, and violence”. Leatherface as an beginner taxidermist, with the mask itself a mixture of many alternative items taken off the faces of his victims. Burns additionally experimented with totally different latex mixtures to make the masks seem like layers of dried skin, ultimately utilizing a combination of liquid latex and yellow fiberglass insulation. The final design was deliberately made to look as though it was all stitched collectively in locations that “did not make any sense”, as Stoddard felt that Leatherface admired a certain a part of a person’s face but stitched them together in a means that could match on him, one such design aspect was the inclusion of the nose and mouth of a lady stitched into the neck portion of the mask. The script for the third movie within the franchise known as for a extra disfigured look to Leatherface, with the implication that the character suffered from syphilis, which had eaten away much of his face. Design particulars comparable to more jigsaw-type patchwork for the stitches, dried blood around the stitches, and tears, along with a wider opening for the mouth, that exposed the character’s cracked lips and crooked teeth.
31:35-34:09 Nicotero discovered creating the design for Leatherface to be particularly challenging, because the look was meant to signify the character’s evolution of their mask. 24:23-25:05 Devane was accountable for creating the mask in the film, utilizing a plaster solid of Johnson’s head which he then sculpted and modified into the look seen in the film. 21:53-28:38 Pieces of the fabric for every mask had been then sewn together with a skinny wire. As Stoddard explained, each piece of Leatherface’s mask was one thing the character had seen and admired, which was then stitched collectively in a crude and rudimentary style. The following Generation’s iteration of the character was designed by Joshua “J.M.” Logan. 21:53-28:38 Using this notion that Leatherface had a side of himself that he created to make himself look “lovely”, Logan felt free to explore the extra feminine aspects of the character that have been barely addressed in the earlier films. Designing the character’s search for the movie incorporates the idea that Leatherface used more than simply a person’s face when “becoming” a certain persona, with the design for the Pretty Lady mask including a woman’s upper torso and arms. The consequences artist experimented with varied design points to give you the feel and appear of a Leatherface that had but to embrace his true monstrous nature.
Make-up effects artist Tom Savini and Mitch Devane designed the Leatherface mask in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, along with the design of Chop Top and Grandpa. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The subsequent Generation options Leatherface as a transvestite concerned in an Illuminati conspiracy to supply society a supply of horror. 0:45-3:52 The ultimate shot within the movie, a homage to the original “chainsaw dance”, was shot in a single take. Yeager additionally rewatched the unique film, in addition to examine the script for that movie to develop a model of Leatherface that he felt was a continuation from that chapter of the character’s life. 2:50-3:47 He felt that there wanted to be a contrast between the 2 sides of the character, to indicate how an individual can turn out to be such a killer: “It might happen to anybody. He had it in him because of his mother, however was on the mercy of his environment.” The actor additionally integrated elements from the original film into his performance out of respect, but intended to make the role his personal, reasonably than repeating what came earlier than. Kim Henkel as the “Clarabell Clown” mask attributable to its resemblance to the character from The Howdy Doody Show.