Sheriff Hoyt
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| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre character | |
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| Sheriff Hoyt | |
| A.K.A. | Charlie Hewitt |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Caucasian |
| Location | Texas |
| Enemies | Everyone but his family |
| Portrayed by: | R. Lee Ermey |
Sheriff Hoyt was a character from the 2003 remake of the 1974 classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. He is portrayed by R. Lee Ermey.
A POW during the Korean War, Charlie Hewitt was forced into cannibalism to survive as rations were extremely scarce. Each week, someone had to be killed and eaten. Charlie apparently grew to like the taste of human flesh and would later introduce the grisly practice to his family.
After the local sheriff tried to apprehend Charlie's adopted brother Thomas after he killed his boss at the meat factory, Charlie shot and killed him. He took on the identity of the sheriff, going under the name Sheriff Winston Hoyt. He would use this new identity to lure teenagers off the road where they would meet up with Leatherface and his family to be killed and eaten.
Hoyt is arguably one of the driving forces to his adopted brother'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.
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 the first movie's teenage protagonists picked up, he leers at the corpse and cracks jokes about his predilection for "copping a feel" on dead female bodies.
He arrests the teens under the pretense of marijuana possession and responsibility for their friends' deaths, bringing 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 and kills him as she flees the town.
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series |
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 • Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III • Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation |
| Remake series |
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning |
| Characters |
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Leatherface • Sally Hardesty • Drayton Sawyer • Edward Sawyer • Chop Top • Grandpa • Sheriff Hoyt • Luda May Hewitt • Old Monty |
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