Proudly defying continuity, Sally Hardesty returns for the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the confusingly titled sequel that arrives February 18 on Netflix. Sally wasn’t seen on-screen again until a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo in 1994’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, where she was just a mute shell of a woman strapped to a gurney. Subsequent Chainsaw films revealed that Sally had been institutionalized almost immediately, slipping into catatonia inside a mental hospital. But the rest of us were flying blind.The last audiences saw of Sally Hardesty, the sole survivor of 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, she was left broken and barely alive after her narrow escape from Leatherface and his family of backwoods cannibals. “He knew exactly where we were at all times. “Tobe really did have a vision,” says Bozman now. He was doing whatever he could, day by day, moment by moment, to get as many images on film as possible, because he knew that Chainsaw, like any successful horror film, would be perfected in the editing room. He probably knew $60,000 wasn’t enough money to finish the film but didn’t want Parsley and the other investors to know that. He wanted the actors to feel irritable and off-balance. The heat, the miserable conditions, and the sheer pain of it all undoubtedly added to the atmosphere Hooper was trying to create. It actually got to be kinda fun.” In retrospect, there’s reason to believe that Hooper was manipulating many of the details, to an almost obsessive degree. It took me several tries, but by the end of it, I was really hitting her. But they kept telling me it looked fake and I needed to really hit her.
“I was afraid to hit her at first,” Siedow told me. By the end of production, her screams were real, as she’d been poked, prodded, bound, dragged through rooms, jerked around, chased through cocklebur underbrush, jabbed with a stick, forced to skid on her knees in take after take, pounded on the head with a rubber hammer, coated with sticky stage blood, and endlessly pursued by Hansen with his chain saw and Neal with his constantly flicking switchblade. But no one was beaten, cut, and bruised more than Burns. Hansen had no peripheral vision while wearing his mask and had a heart-stopping near miss when his boots slipped while he was running and the chain saw flew up in the air and crashed to the ground, inches from his body. For Partain’s dying scene, Hooper and makeup artist Dottie Pearl stood on either side of the camera lens, spitting red Karo syrup into the air, attracting flesh-devouring mosquitoes. Partain had a bruised and cut arm after rolling down a hill in one of the early scenes. Here, Bloom describes the injuries the cast members suffered through while making the film, especially by Marilyn Burns, who had the lead role: Almost every cast member suffered some sort of injury. Texas Monthly has resurfaced their story from 2004 by John Bloom about the making of the film, which was made on a budget of $60,000 (about $290K, adjusted for inflation). It’s been 40 years since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit theaters and shocked moviegoers with its violent scenes.
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