Are young people doomed to suffer from boomer pop culture?

• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

   is available Friday on Netflix, it is the direct sequel to the original Tobe Hooper film and wipes the slate clean of all the others.

• Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Scream, Matrix

  … All the successful franchises are resurrected with one eye in the retro, another in the future, these are the “legacyquels”.

• Behind the economic model put in place by Hollywood, there is also a question of transmission between generations of spectators.

Available Friday on Netflix,

of David Blue Garcia is the direct sequel to the homonymous – and cult – film by Tobe Hooper from 1974. Fifty years have passed since the original massacre, and a band of young influencers and entrepreneurs arrive in the ghost town of Harlow, Texas, with the idea of ​​rehabilitating it and doing business.

But they will cross paths with Leatherface, as well as Sally Hardesty, the only one to have escaped her chainsaw.

This new episode is the ninth in the franchise, but wipes the slate clean of all the others.

Again.

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A direct sequel that wipes the slate clean of all the others

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

has already had sequels, a remake, a prequel, and even “a direct sequel that wipes the slate clean of all the others” with

in 2013. That was yesterday.

, the other great horror saga, went through the same process, bringing Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode, the first victim and survivor of Michael Myers, in the aptly named 

, only to kill her later. in

.

Maybe you were thinking of another

?

Because, yes, rebelote, Jamie Lee Curtis is back, 40 years later, in David Gordon Green's new

trilogy , both a direct sequel to John Carpenter's original film and a

of the entire franchise.

for “retroactive continuity”.

If you like barbaric terms, we also speak of “legacyquel”.

Welcome to the world of “legacyquels”… of what?

Theorized by American journalist Matt Singer and deciphered in a

video , this portmanteau word – between

and

, heritage and sequel – refers to all recent films that are neither a sequel, nor a remake, nor a reboot, or so, all at once: 

,

,

,

,

,

, and, of course,

postlogy .

To stay in the horror and in the tradition of its meta approach, the latest

quotes and even makes fun of the term.

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A "legacyquel" takes place a minimum of time after the original film or final episode, at least ten years, reunites the original cast alongside new and young characters, for what is intended to be both a sequel and a passage from torch.

For Hollywood, it is also a question of exploiting a franchise that has already proven itself, and therefore taking less risk, if not losing the new generations.

A new generation lost in advance?

You just have to see Steven from the YouTube channel Les Dossier Geek kindly bugging in front of the trailer for

and the reunion with the

trio  to better understand: "Ah but yes, I put them back, It's good.

From the original trilogy”.

If the industry conceives these films or series (hello

) as works in their own right, it is better to have seen the previous ones, the originals.

Crossed at the exit of a multiplex, two friends, in their twenties, were discussing the latest 

.

One, a fan of cinema and pop culture, had seen and adored it, the other had preferred to pass her turn, because she “had not seen all the films and previous incarnations”.

She was afraid of not understanding anything.

It is clear that they were few in his case: 

became the first superhero film in France, with more than 7 million admissions at the box office.

The universe, or rather the multiverse, of superheroes is conducive to "legacyquels" and fan service, with already what years ago

and soon

for Marvel , and

with the return of Michael Keaton as Batman for DC.

Yes, the process has become almost systematic in Hollywood.

recalled it in the best way, or the worst, depending.

The series about the bounty hunter, and cult character of

, quickly turned into a best of with multiple references and guests from 

,

, the original trilogy, etc.

Even more telling: Harrison Ford has already revisited his three most iconic roles with

,

and

.

But is this a bad thing?

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“It's all true.

The dark side.

The Jedi.

They are real”

As Rey told Han Solo, "There were stories about what happened."

To which he replies: “It is true.

Everything is true.

The dark side.

The Jedi.

They are real”.

It is also the subject of “legacyquels” and ultimately of pop culture, of passing the torch between generations of spectators.

From this point of view, the new

is interesting, since it is offered on Netflix, the platform for everyone but especially for young people.

If the film stands on its own, it also invites us to go back to the original "evil", Tobe Hooper's seminal film, its sequels including a

with pre-stars Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey, and why not push up to to the encyclopedic book of Julien Sévéon: 

.

It remains to be seen how many years, generations, Hollywood can still hold on to this phenomenon.

Journalist Matt Singer is already announcing a peak, even the beginning of an end, with the majority of successful franchises revisited, a few failures (the two

,

and

), and the limit or even the impasse for the creators, like the self-criticism or even self-destruction of a 

.

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