


The make-up scene would have been inserted while Sally is passed out at the dinner table just after the Grandfather has sucked her finger. Copies of the script that are circulating don't include this scene at all because the script was re-written after the scenes were shot, removing any reference to the segment. The make-up scene is probably the most infamous of all the footage missing from the released version of the film. I think without the first tantrum by the gas station, the final scene loses a bit of impact," Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) said.Ĥ. Marilyn (Sally) gets away a second time and you see it again.
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You see a bit with Leatherface swinging the chainsaw in anger here, then at the end of the movie it comes full circle. "It was a great scene because it added more impact to the final shot of the movie. In the finished film, as Sally runs into the service station and The Cook, Leatherface, we assume, is left outside, The script excerpt and the footage explain why Leatherface ends his pursuit of Sally so abruptly. After the death of Franklin, Sally is pursued by Leatherface. Look for the pocket watch nailed to the tree.ģ. There is a bit of this scene left in the finished film, however. The campsite was the leftovers from campers that were attacked by the Sawyer family but the scene was deemed unnecessary to the film's plot. The first draft of the original script contained a scene involving Pam and Kirk stumbling across the rotting remains of an abandoned campsite and was to immediately follow Franklin looking up at the skeleton mobile. Part of this scene exists as a voice-over in the final film.Ģ. Originally, this scene was longer and gave us a stronger impression that Franklin annoyed the others.

As the group is leaving the cemetery in the van, they drive past a slaughterhouse and note the horrible smell.
