<P> The 2017 film Leatherface is a prequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre that deals with Leatherface in his teenage years . </P> <P> Marcus Nispel directed a remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 2003 . Its success greenlit a prequel, released in 2006, which delved into the origins of Leatherface and of his family . In this continuity, Leatherface's real name is Thomas Brown Hewitt; his mother Sloane dies giving birth to him in August 1939 at the Blair Meat Co., a slaughterhouse where she works, and her uncaring boss leaves the infant to die in a dumpster . Luda Mae Hewitt finds him and takes him home to raise him . </P> <P> The Hewitts worked at the Blair Meat Co., but after losing their jobs they switched to kidnapping people, murdering them (often by chainsaw or shotgun) and butchering their flesh, as family member Charlie claims that he got the idea from eating human flesh in the Korean War after he became a prisoner of war . The prequel reveals that they do eat the meat of their victims; the remake only implies this . </P> <P> Leatherface in this continuity suffers from a facial disfigurement and a skin disease that caused severe deformities and tumors to his face . Due to this disfigurement, his muteness and mental retardation (carried over from the first series), other children bullied the boy . He wore a small leather mask to cover up his deformity, and worked at the same meat factory where he was born, for the same boss as his mother - the same man who had left him for dead . He also had a tendency toward self - mutilation, and a doctor diagnosed him as suffering from a type of neurodegeneration at age 12 . </P>

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