Most Rewatchable Scene
Kirk's death and the lead-up to it
In the discussion (13)
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- The opening is admired though not offered as the pick: the August 18th, 1973 date, the opening crawl, the credits and the graveyard shot make one of the great tone-setting openings, especially since the next 35 to 40 minutes bring little.
- Picking up the hitchhiker is compared to Antonio Brown joining the Patriots: a bad idea that went worse than expected and ended with people bleeding.
- Getting stuck with someone fully gone is likened to the corner of a bar; one participant recalls a man in a Philly bar insisting they check out his knife, and the scariest part is that such people call the shots and you have to play along.
- Kirk and his girlfriend go to a watering hole with no water and walk toward a house that might have gas; finding a rotten tooth and giving it to his girlfriend as a joke is where the hosts would have left.
- Kirk goes in after hearing an animal squealing and Leatherface kills him with no music, the hammer sounding like a walnut cracking, then slams the sliding metal door; hammers are called underexplored in horror because they knock someone unconscious immediately.
- Pam goes into the house after Kirk and ends up in the room of feathers and bones, assembled by an art director who collected decomposing animal parts around Texas; Leatherface carries her to another room, puts her on a hook, and she watches Kirk get chainsawed.
- Jerry goes into the creepy house looking for both; the interaction between Franklin and Sally, brother and sister, is singled out as a riff on Hansel and Gretel: she cannot leave him, which saves her life but costs his.
- The girl in the freezer, called the igloo, Jerry getting smoked and Leatherface killing Franklin follow, and Sally runs to the gas station guy, who is not really helping her.
- The gas station guy turning out to be bad, the person you run to for help, became a horror trope; she sees the organs roasting and wonders whether to run before he pulls up with the bag and rope, and Friday the 13th repeats the moment with Jason's mom.
- The grandfather sucking Sally's bloody finger is super disturbing and her passing out is called the correct response; they reportedly cut her finger for real.
- The dinner is called the worst dinner invite of all time, tied up while three psychopaths mock her, and the grandfather trying and failing to hit her with the hammer is compared to an aging quarterback trying one last season.
- She escapes by jumping out the window a second time; the hosts are unsure why she and the truck driver leave the truck, and call the ending, her bloody face screaming while Leatherface waves the chainsaw in the dawn sun, the most haunting ending and an all-time last shot, better even than Halloween's.
- The pick is Kirk getting killed and the lead-up to it, which another participant agrees with without question; it is the stretch they would watch if the movie came on cable.