Where did the truck driver go? What were Leatherface's next couple of days like? Did this movie end hitchhiking? What happened to Marilyn Burns? Whose death would you want? Were the kids marked for death?
Where did the truck driver go: he just runs off away from his truck, the next 15 minutes with him could be its own movie, and he probably runs to the gas station, the worst possible place.
Leatherface's next couple of days after losing his brother are imagined as tape study with Sean Payton: thicker windows, a second chainsaw, maybe going electric.
The impact on hitchhiking: according to Ed Neal, Texas State Troopers thanked him because there were no more hitchhikers, though statistically it lasted a couple more years.
Read verbatim from the internet: on August 5th, 2014, at 65, Marilyn Burns was found dead by her brother at her home in Houston with no cause of death specified; the question of what happened is handed to Concepcion and Tyler for a deep dive.
Whose death would you want: Kirk's, because he does not see it coming and is dead before the sawing; the wheelchair guy's chainsaw death would be tough.
The least wanted is Pam's: a slow death on the meat hook with a gaping hole in her back, watching somebody else get killed and knowing she is next.
Earlier, one participant's unanswerable question is whether this movie ended hitchhiking.
Were the kids cursed or marked for death by the burning photo and the blood on the van and pushed toward the house, or was it random; one sees some voodoo in the burned picture, another finds it scarier if random.
Introduced as a rare category before the categories; the hosts suspect they picked the same anecdote, given the film was made for $60,000 in 100-degree Texas heat.
After getting the grandfather's old-age makeup, John Dugan would not repeat the five-hour process, so his scenes, mostly the dinner scene, were shot over the next 30 hours in summer heat in a room of dead animals and rotting food with no air conditioning and blackout curtains; the stench made people pass out and go outside to puke.
Edwin Neal, who played the hitchhiker, called filming that scene the worst time of his life, worse than being in Vietnam with people trying to kill him; a host compares being up 24 hours after an early flight back from Boston, and the shoot went six hours past that.
Marilyn Burns was tied up the entire time, screaming while being mocked, and the cast got paid about 150 bucks; the 16 millimeter cameras needed so much light that interior scenes generated extra heat.
