Texas Chainsaw Massacre: What Sally Hardesty Has Done Since 1974
Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS for Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 ahead!
Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 finally answered the mystery of what the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s final girl Sally Hardesty has been up to since 1974, retconning the franchise’s multiple sequels in the process. Ever since 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot was first announced, it was made clear that this direct sequel to 1974’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre would ignore the rest of the sequels, prequels, and remakes in the franchise. Sure enough, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 didn’t bring back Alexandra Daddario's Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D heroine and instead rebooted the franchise wholesale.
As part of following up director Tobe Hooper’s original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the 2022 sequel offered a new answer for where original Texas Chain Saw Massacre heroine Sally Hardesty has been in the five decades since the movie’s events. Unfortunately, Sally’s original actor Marilyn Burns passed away in 2014. As a result, the role was reprised by actor Olwen Fouere in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022.
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According to the events of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022, after the original movie killed off the rest of her friends, Sally Hardesty dedicated her life to hunting down Leatherface. Or, more accurately, the Final Girl dedicated her life to trying to hunt him down, since she had no success and eventually retired from her job as a Texas Ranger after thirty fruitless years of searching. Much like Halloween 2018 made Laurie Strode a tragic former Final Girl whose life was defined by the events of the original slasher movie, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 confirms that Sally never recovered
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