Sheriff Hoyt
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| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre character | |
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| Sheriff Hoyt | |
| A.K.A. | Charlie Hewitt, Jr. |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Caucasian |
| Location | Texas |
| Enemies | Everyone but his family |
| Portrayed by: | R. Lee Ermey |
Sheriff Hoyt is a fictional character from the 2003 remake of the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. He is portrayed by R. Lee Ermey.
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[edit] The films
A POW during the Korean War, Charlie Hewitt is forced into cannibalism to survive, as rations are extremely scarce. Each week, someone has to be killed and eaten. Charlie apparently grows to like the taste of human flesh and later introduces the grisly practice to his family. [1]
Charlie shoots and kills the local sheriff, Sheriff Winston, during the sheriff's attempt to apprehend Charlie's nephew Thomas for murdering his boss at the meat factory. Charlie takes on the identity of the sheriff, going under the name Sheriff Winston Hoyt. He uses this new identity to lure teenagers off the road where they will meet Leatherface and his family to be killed and eaten. [1]
Hoyt is arguably one of the driving forces behind his adoptive nephew's cannibalism and murders, assuring Thomas that the butchery of human beings is no different than the slaughterhouse: "Meat is meat, and bone is bone." Later, Hoyt is present during Leatherface's first chainsaw murder, urging him to go forward and cheering him on at the same time. [1]
A gruff, mean-spirited bully, Hoyt not only makes no effort to conceal his contempt for everyone around him, he seems to revel in it. For example, when he is called to investigate the suicide of a young girl in the first film, he leers at the corpse and cracks jokes about his predilection for "copping a feel" on dead female bodies. [2]
He arrests the film's teenaged protagonists under the pretense of marijuana possession and responsibility for the girl's death and brings them to his family home to be butchered by Leatherface. The last survivor, Erin, proves herself to be tougher and more resourceful than he had expected; at the movie's climax, she runs him over repeatedly with his own police car and kills him as she drives away. [2]
[edit] The comics
Hoyt makes his first appearance in comic books in Avatar Press' releases, which are set between the events of the remake and prequel, starting with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Special, released in April 2005. When three escaped convicts and their two female companions become stranded in the area after a botched robbery of Luda May Hewitt's General Store, Hoyt and his family, after killing two members of the group, capture the remaining three. Under threat of torture, Hoyt forces the group leader, a drug dealer, to snort cleaning chemicals. After the man's death, Hoyt has Leatherface kill his girlfriend and her friend after the latter miscarriages and is deemed now useless by the Hewitts. [3]
In the three issue miniseries The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Grind, Hoyt, after finding a travelling group of choir girls stranded, plants marijuana on them and arrests all of them under the pretense of possessing of drugs. Taking the girls to the Blair Meat Company after giving the youngest to Henrietta, Hoyt locks them in a freezer with the plan of releasing them one by one to be killed by Leatherface. When the girls escape, Hoyt and the rest of the Hewitts begin to hunt them down. After all the girls are killed except one, the Hewitts, after she escapes, taking the little girl Hoyt had given to Henrietta, frame her for the murder of her travelling companions, which ultimately results in her being locked away in a mental asylum. [4] [5] [6] In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Fearbook, after a quartet of travelling hippies run afoul of him at Luda May's General Store, Hoyt arrests the leader of the group and takes him and his companions to the Hewitt house where he, after beating the man alongside Old Monty, summons Leatherface to kill him and his friends. [7]
Although Hoyt is apparently killed off at the end of the 2003 remake, Wildstorm Comics' continuation of the movie suggest he may have survived.
The beginning of the series has Hoyt's offices under investigation, where it is revealed he had kept a scrapbook of his family's crimes in his office, victims held captive in a nearby shack, and a passageway through the sewers that leads to the Hewitt residence.
Later issues introduce 'Hank', the head slaughterman at the Blair Meat Company. When a cameraman and newswoman come to interview him about the murderers, he gives them a graphic tour of the slaughterhouse, showing them various animals being killed and how the meat is rendered. Later, when one of their crew goes missing, the two go back inside only for Hank to reappear and attack them. After knocking them both out with a cattleprod, Hank proceeds to torture and ultimately murder the cameraman in the same exact way that the animals were prepared (by slitting the throat and letting the blood drain, and then tossing him into a vat of scalding hot water before 'rendering' the meat) while the newswoman watchs helplessly while tied to a hook.
The newswoman manages to escape, with Hank in hot pursuit. He is stopped dead in his tracks by FBI Agent Baines, the uncle of Pepper (one of Leatherface's victims from the first film). Erroneously believing Hank to be responsible for his niece's death, Baines manages to find a stray chainsaw and engage the slaughterman in a chainsaw fight. Although Baines is wounded by Hank's weapon, Baines gains the upper hand and manages to dismember and ultimately kill Hank.
Although Hank is never identified as Hoyt, he does bear a strong resemblance to the character, leading some to believe that he is in fact the sheriff from the films. When artist Wes Craig was asked about the resemblance between the two, he responded by saying while he wouldn't confirm whether or not Hank was Hoyt, that the similarity between the two characters was indeed intentional.
| “ | I don't really want to say if that was Hoyt or not, it might have been him, might have been his twin, who knows (okay I know but I'm not telling). But yes it was supposed to look like Hoyt. [8] | ” |
Hoyt has a small cameo in the comic one-shot About a Boy as "Uncle Charlie" (being that the events took place before the events of The Beginning) where he comes across a young Thomas in the process of skinning off the face of a bully that had tormented him earlier. After questioning Thomas as to whether he was trying to make the bully look like him (being that Thomas had no nose), or make himself look like the bully, he puts the bully out of his misery by blowing off his head off with a shotgun. His only criticism of Thomas's actions is that he "gotta learn how to fix 'em proper". [9]
Hoyt later had his own one-shot titled "Hoyt, By Himself", also published by Wildstorm. It focuses on Hoyt recalling his past as a POW in the Korean War in the "bone cold" winter of 1953 while he tortures an unlucky victim who crosses his path.
Hoyt recalls the torturous and humiliating conditions he had to endure to survive, and how various soldiers were killed and fed to the other prisoners. Hoyt at first tries to resist the temptation of becoming an 'animal' but sooner or later engages in cannibalism to survive; "I'm a survivor, plain and simple. I do what I have to." When he is selected by his captors for the next meal, he escapes after impaling one of them with a discarded bone and ripping out his neck with his teeth, and stabbing another through the neck.
In present time, Hoyt's victim attempts to fight back. "You don't get it!" Hoyt says. "If I could survive the fucking communists all by myself...I can survive anything with my family around me." Just as the victim almost escapes, Leatherface arrives and chainsaws him to death. "Let's eat." Hoyt says as the story ends. [10]
[edit] Other appearances
A seven and half inch tall statuette of Hoyt was created by McFarlane Toys Movie Maniacs line; the statuette comes with a two-piece van base and removable accessories such as a handgun. [11] Hoyt (referred to as simply the Sheriff due to licensing issues) appears in the 2007 version of Universal Orlando Resort's Halloween Horror Nights in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Flesh Wounds haunted house; he also appears as the leader of Chainsaw Drill Team attraction.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Jonathan Liebesman (Director). (2006). The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning [DVD]. United States: New Line Cinema.
- ^ a b Marcus Nispel (Director). (2003). The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [DVD]. United States: New Line Cinema.
- ^ Brian Pulido (w), Jacen Burrows (p), Jacen Burrows (i). The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Special vol. 1, #1 (April, 2005) Avatar Press
- ^ Brian Pulido (w), Alcione Silvia and Bob Koya (i). The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Grind vol. 1, #1 (May 2006) Avatar Press
- ^ Brian Pulido (w), Alcione Silvia, Bob Koya and Daniel HDR (i). The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Grind vol. 1, #2 (June 2006) Avatar Press
- ^ Brian Pulido (w), Bob Koya, Elvis Moura and Newton Barbosa (i). The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Grind vol. 1, #3 (June 2006) Avatar Press
- ^ Antony Johnston (w), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Fearbook vol. 1, #1 (2006) Avatar Press
- ^ MojoBlender: Texas Chainsaw Massacre #5 out this Week! (March 21st)
- ^ Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (w), Joel Gomez (p), Troy Hobbs (i). "About a Boy" The Texas Chainsaw Massacre vol. 1, #1 (2007-07-18) Wildstorm
- ^ Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (w), Wes Craig (p), "Hoyt, By Himself" The Texas Chainsaw Massacre vol. 1, #1 (2007-08-22) Wildstorm
- ^ SPAWN.COM >> TOYS >> MOVIES AND TV >> MOVIE MANIACS 7 >> SHERIFF HOYT
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