“I think I’ll need a second before I watch any horror movie ever again.”
There’s no denying that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the most iconic and well-known horror franchises in the history of cinema. Even if you have never seen any of the films, which range from classic to shockingly bad, you know about it. With Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the latest entry in the series, debuting on Netflix, Leatherface rises again. Sarah Yarkin leads the cast as an entrepreneur who buys the small town of Harlow, Texas, with a group of friends. They unknowingly inherit a sitting tenant whose brutal instincts are reawakened, and the blood quickly begins the flow. It’s up to Yarkin’s Melody and the sole survivor of Leatherface’s killing spree in 1973 to try and stop him. “So the first kill is the most horrifying. Am I right, or am I wrong?” Yarkin enthused as we discussed the fact that things get wild pretty quickly. “That was the one day I wasn’t on set, so I had no idea what happened until I saw it. At the time, Nell Hudson, who plays Ruth was like, ‘I think it was okay. I don’t know how I did.’ Watching it, I was like, ‘Wait, I’m sorry. What?’ It’s the best scene of the whole movie.” As a film packed with creative and bloody slayings, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a meaty buffet of potential best kill scenes. Being at the heart of the mayhem was somewhat hellish for the actress, who isn’t a big fan of horror movies even when she’s center stage. “You only see everything from your personal experience, so seeing them and being in them are two different things. Those days were grueling, physically and emotionally. You are under the elements but seeing it is was a totally different experience. I can’t say it was worse because that would sound wrong,” she explained.
