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Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movies, Ranked
It’s been 50 years since Tobe Hooper unleashed Leatherface, and horror cinema has never been the same.
Texas Chainsaw 3D is by no means equipped to handle the thematic heavy lifting that it would take to turn the Sawyer clan into simply misunderstood mass killers, and so the end, in which Heather treats Leatherface like a sort of murder pet, inspires little more than a Huh? Doubly so when it tries to ape the recent success of the new Halloween trilogy and bring back Sally (Irish actress Olwen Fouéré replaces Burns, who died in 2014) to take on Leatherface one last time, Jamie Lee Curtis style. It’s the not knowing that might be Chainsaw ’s greatest asset — there is no “Norman Bates is his mother,” no “Michael Myers in my brother,” no “Fred Krueger was killed by the parents of Elm Street.” Whatever clues you can garner are scattered among the bones and meat, and by the end you’re left like Sally Hardesty, hysterically laughing in the back of a fleeing truck.
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