Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 Repeats The Weirdest Leatherface Moment
Warning: Spoilers ahead for 2022's Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
Netflix's Texas Chainsaw Massacre repeats one of the most memorable but strangest moments involving Leatherface from the 1974 original movie, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Gunnar Hansen first played the horror icon in Tobe Hooper's film that launched the long-running Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. Nearly 50 years later, Mark Burnham has taken over the role of the chainsaw-wielding killer in an installment from David Blue Garcia that serves as a direct sequel to the original movie.
In 2022's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface went free after the cannibalistic Sawyer family encountered Sally Hardesty and her group in the early '70s. He found refuge with Ginny McCumber, the owner of an orphanage in Harlow, Texas, where Leatherface remained until another run-in with more young people who like to barge into places they don't belong. Despite another encounter with Sally Hardesty and hard-fought fights with sisters Melody and Lila, Leatherface once again survives just like the original movie. However, Leatherface's survival serves as a shock to viewers and the sisters, snatching Melody out of the fleeing car before using a chainsaw to cut her head off.
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To add insult to injury, Leatherface holds up Melody's severed head as Lila watches in horror. Texas Chainsaw Massacre then copies the original movie's weirdest sequence by showing Leatherface wildly waving his chainsaw around in what has become known as the «Leatherface dance.» The antagonist first did this «dance» in the final scene of Hooper's original movie. After Sally jumped into a passerby's truckbed, Leatherface was left
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