Mezco Cinema of Fear Series 5

* Part III Leatherface
* Hobo Michael Myers

Halloween

Cinema of Fear was Mezco’s successor to their Silent Screamers line and an attempt to compete with the likes of other horror movie toylines (McFarlane’s Movie Maniacs, NECA’s Cult Classics and SOTA’s Now Playing) with four series of action figures released in total and a planned fifth one that never saw any further development.

## **Summary**

As I just mentioned, Mezco’s Cinema of Fear was a 6” line of action figures primarily based on slasher flicks like *Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,* and *Friday the 13th* with barely any focus on other obscure flicks. Though one thing that did make them stand out from NECA and McFarlane at the time was that they produced miniature dioramas based on specific scenes from the films (for example, the ending to the original *Friday the 13th* and when Freddy looms over Nancy’s bed in the original *Nightmare on Elm Street)* and figures of other characters besides the main villains (Nubbins from the original *Texas Chainsaw Massacre*, Chop Top from *TCM Part II*, Debbie in her cockroach transformation from *Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master*).  They had plans to do action figures based on different incarnations of cinematic serial killers that had not yet been tackled by the likes of NECA and McFarlane.

## **Series 5**

Shown at the Mezco booth during the 2010 New York Toy Fair were two prototypes of particular interest. One was an action figure based on Leatherface as seen in *Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part III* where he was portrayed by R.A. Mihailoff. Up until this point, Mezco had done figures of almost every actor who portrayed Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen from the original, Bill Johnson from *Part 2*, Andrew Bryrniarski from the 2003 remake) and what would’ve made this figure stand out among the rest beside his slight wardrobe change and leg braces is his chainsaw which its blade was made to be even longer than the previous ones and has the phrase “The Saw is Family” engraved on it.  While Mezco had already released a figure based off Tyler Mane’s portrayal of Michael Myers from Rob Zombie’s *Halloween II*, the other figure that was shown off during the event was another version of Michael in the raggedy hobo jacket he wore during his time as a savage homeless person.

## **Final Verdict**

For reasons unknown (either the line being cancelled or the rights were lost), both *Part III* Leatherface and Hobo Myers were never released by Mezco and while the latter would appear in a eBay auction where it fetched for $25,000, it disappeared right before anyone could make an offer and it, along with the *Part III* Leatherface, will remain: **LOST**.

The only other version of Hobo Michael Myers that Mezco released was a 1:6 deluxe figure and in the 2017 Toy Fair, NECA revealed an 8” retro cloth version of Leatherface from *Part III* that eventually found release on store shelves.

## **References**

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema\_of\_Fear
2. ↑ http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2016/03/21/five-unreleased-horror-toys-that-we-still-want/
3. ↑ https://archive.nyafuu.org/toy/thread/6026149/
4. ↑ https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3424716/exclusive-check-necas-upcoming-chainsaw-3-leatherface-figure/