Top 9 Chilling Chainsaw Kills
Steve Barton
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Part 2 (1986)
Sure, it might not have had the power or grit of the original film, but for pure chainsaw action, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Part 2 certainly brought its “A” game. Kudos must be given to Dennis Hopper’s up-the-butt chainsaw attack on The Cook, Drayton Sawyer, that took care of his hemorrhoids and led Drayton giving everyone the ol’ fuck-you-Charlie, but Chainsaw 2 had one even better right in the opening scene. Rowdy Texas high schoolers Buzz and Rick messed with the wrong creepy pickup truck, resulting in Leatherface removing the top half of Buzz’s head in an unforgettable Tom Savini F/X moment. Dog will hunt!
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Although Leatherface didn’t actually get to do too much chainsaw slicing and dicing in the original film, we still, without a doubt, have to include the carving of Franklin Hardesty on this list. An angry, wheelchair-bound grouch, Franklin was the beast to his sister Sally’s beauty. Franklin fell victim to the Sawyer Clan in a gruesome manner (even though most of the visuals were cut away from, it’s still a very powerful scene as we witness Leatherface maniacally attacking Franklin). We’ve included an extended version of the clip here in tribute to the late Marilyn Burns, who played Sally, so you can watch her reaction as Franklin gets attacked as well as her nightmarish run through the woods while being chased by Leatherface. Rest in peace, Marilyn. The genre would not have been the same without you.
Evil Dead 2 (1987)/Army of Darkness (1997)/The Evil Dead (2017)
We have to include some love to the impressive chainsaw work in the Evil Dead remake and have included a clip below of the fantastic chainsaw kill in the movie’s finale. But as impressive as the modern version of Evil Dead violence was – and it was amazingly bloody, violent, twisted, and nasty – the originals brought something else to chainsaw violence: comedy. Bruce Campbell was doing Jim Carrey-like work before Jim Carrey did it mainstream. Campbell did more than just wield a chainsaw; he strapped the fucking thing right to his arm and, in a deviation from the norm, fought for the good guys. Groovy!
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