The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: A Family Film
Recently, I got the itch to rewatch The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). It had been a while and I was hankering for something a bit older. But, what I really wanted to do was reevaluate the film. I watched it when I really didn't understand what the movie was saying, and I felt like I hadn't given it a fair shake. So, to correct the course, I popped it on. And what I came away with was mostly the same, yet I noticed some details stood out more. And it made me appreciate Sally (Played by Marilyn Burns) more as a character. With this appreciation, I was also reminded of how bad the character had been utilized in Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022). A movie that I had watched on release at like 2 in the morning. Like, I wasn't a fan of the character then, yet even I could tell that something was wrong. Sally was this mix of Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode from Halloween (2018) and Dennis Hopper's Lieutenant Lefty from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. Two characters th...