A screaming and traumatized Lila witnesses this while the car drives away on autopilot, a reversal of the original ending, even if she is the final girl here. While Lila and Melody seem to survive in the end, on the verge of driving away to safety, Leatherface appears out of nowhere, grabbing Melody and decapitating her head on the spot. However, before dying, she tells Lila that if she does not end this cycle now, it will haunt her forever, which is partly what prompts her to go after Leatherface alone. While Sally holds her own against Leatherface, she is killed rather brutally and tossed aside. This is an especially infuriating and heartbreaking moment: what is an eternal nightmare for the traumatized is simply a random day for the aggressor, one that is not even worth remembering. Encountering Leatherface after all these years, she is baffled by the fact that he barely remembers her. While Sally was the resilient final girl in Hooper’s original, she, unfortunately, does not remain so in the Netflix sequel. RELATED: Why Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface Can Be The Best Modern Slasher This time, he kills of his own accord as opposed to being ordered around by anyone, and the motive seems to be revenge, although he might still be indulging in his cannibalistic tendencies. The arrival of Melody and her friends disrupt this 50-year long hiatus from killing, and the death of Virginia (which is frankly accidental) pushes Leatherface to the edge, reigniting his urge to massacre everyone in his way. Virginia, the woman who owns the orphanage, took Leatherface under her care, choosing to stay with him inside the building even after bank orders for evacuation, given Leatherface’s inability to re-integrate into mainstream society. Tracing the events of the film, and what could have possibly transpired after 1973, it becomes clear that Leatherface was sent to the Harlow Orphanage, given his psychological condition and “childlike” mental state while he was living with Texas Chainsaw Massacre's cannibalistic family. However, does Leatherface really die? The answer is a distinct no. However, Melody arrives at the opportune moment, wounding Leatherface with his own chainsaw, which throws him back into a shallow pool of water, and he presumably drowns. Lila shoots Leatherface with a gun, but the masked cannibal is still freakishly strong, overtaking her quickly and intending to kill her. There are some extremely tense sequences in which Leatherface chases after a traumatized Melody, who barely survives the encounter by sheer chance.Ī one-on-one fight ensues between Lila and Leatherface at the end, which is a rather unfair dynamic, as Lila is only a child, who recently survived a school shooting and saw her sister grievously injured/traumatized moments before. However, at the end of the 2022 requel, Leatherface goes after the two surviving girls, Melody and Lila, who are the only remaining youngsters to have survived the bloodbath in Harlow, especially the extremely gruesome (and gory) mass murders inside the “influencer” bus. The image of Leatherface waving around his chainsaw under the Texas sun is still one of the most haunting sequences in the slasher/horror genre, and Netflix’s legacy sequel is (understandably) unable to replicate or surpass it. The ending of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre is pretty unforgettable, given that it captures the raw, chilling anguish of Leatherface after Sally manages to get away from him. Here’s what transpired in the ending, and how the film sets up a potential sequel in an attempt to develop the franchise. This is the catalyst for the events that fuel Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which triggers the return of Leatherface and the bloody massacres that accompany him. Things, of course, start going downhill on their arrival, especially after Dante and Melody encounter a woman at the Harlow Orphanage, who claims to still own the property after the bank reclaiming it. RELATED: Why Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Timeline Is So Messy The residents seem wary of their presence from the beginning, asking them to be respectful of the place’s history, as it is one marked by bloodshed and the loss of innocent lives. Lila (Elsie Fisher) and her older sister Melody (Sarah Yarkin) are in Texas with their friends Dante (Jacob Latimore) and Ruth (Nell Hudson), in hopes of kickstarting a business venture in the ghost town of Harlow. Texas Chainsaw Massacre opens with the narration of the grotesque killings that transpired on August 18, 1973, and how lone survivor Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouéré) never publicly opened up about her trauma to this day.
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