“It will be fun, but also bittersweet,” Corbitt posted to Facebook shortly before they headed out to film. He points out that Neal has never appeared again as the hitchhiker in the dozens of reiterations of Texas Chain Saw Massacre over the years. It’s a part he’s decided to resurrect more than 40 years later as part of Warbeast’s music video for the song “Hitchhiker,” from the band’s magnum opus and final album, Enter the Arena.Ĭorbitt, who’s been a fan of Neal’s since long before the singer's Rigor Mortis days in the mid '80s, compares Neal’s decision to star in a Warbeast music video to when Bela Lugosi returned to his famous Dracula role for the 1948 horror comedy Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Neal, a Dallas-based actor and screenwriter, found success as the voice of Killer Croc, Two-Face and Harvey Bullock in the Batman DC Universe online game, but he got his start playing Nubbins Sawyer, the hitchhiker in the 1974 cult horror movie classic Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The hitchhiker goes by the name of Edwin Neal when he’s out of character. ![]() It’s a secluded area, overgrown in some parts but mostly a wide-open range in the middle of nowhere - and the perfect place for an infamous hitchhiker to persuade some saps, like a thrash metal band in need of weed, to pick him up on a ride that quickly descends into nightmare less than a quarter of a mile down the road. ![]() The band is traveling down a two-lane blacktop road outside a town that looks like a prop from Kevin Bacon’s Footloose movie on a Saturday afternoon in early June. It’s a moment that has taken him eight years to make happen and one he’s not going to forget as he prepares to undertake radiation treatments to combat stage 3 esophageal cancer in the coming weeks. Hannah Ridings Riding in the back of a white van as the infamous hitchhiker from Texas Chain Saw Massacre attacks Warbeast bassist Lyric Ferchaud is another dream come true for lead singer Bruce Corbitt.
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