Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 Breaks A Recent Final Girl Reboot Trend
Warning: Spoilers ahead for 2022's Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
Netflix's Texas Chainsaw Massacre serves as yet another movie sequel that reboots a major horror franchise, but it also breaks a trend involving the survival of iconic «final girls.» The 2022 Texas Chainsaw Massacre installment from David Blue Garcia features the return of the 1974 original movie's sole survivor Sally Hardesty. This move continues the formula of thrusting traditional final girls back into the spotlight, following Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the new Halloween trilogy and Sidney Prescott's (Neve Campbell) return in Scream 2022. Sally, Laurie, and Sidney are three of the most notable final girls in their respective horror canonical–and sometimes retconned–timelines.
Marilyn Burns first played Sally in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, surviving an attack from Leatherface and the cannibalistic Sawyer family. Nearly 50 years later, the character makes her grand return to the newly retconned timeline with a title that acts as a direct sequel to the 1974 movie, but this time, the character is played by Olwen Fouéré. While Leatherface was living in the derelict town of Harlow under the care of the owner of an orphanage, Sally went on to become a Texas Ranger, who was motivated in hunting down and killing the chainsaw-wielding madman. It took decades, but after a new attack in the town in Harlow, Sally Hardesty has the opportunity to avenge the brutal murder of her brother and friends, as well as her own attack.
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When Sally gets a chance to take back her own life, she quickly decides to directly go after the person responsible, following in the footsteps of
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