10 Deleted Scenes That Explain Confusing Horror Movie Moments
7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Leatherface's Service Station Tantrum
One of the film's iconic scenes depicts Leatherface dancing and screaming at the close of the film, while Sally escapes on the back of a pickup truck. Although he tries to chase her, she escapes him. Now what was cut from the film goes just a little way to making his tantrum here a little bigger.
When Sally first escapes the Sawyer house (as it will come to be known) she runs through the bushes and trees, closely pursued by Leatherface. It is incredibly tense and terrifying, as the way it is shot, it looks like the man could easily swing down the chainsaw at any moment. In the film as released, she arrives at the service station and then he is, all of a sudden, gone.
Now, we quickly learn that the service station belongs to the family. What we don't see is a tantrum that Leatherface is having outside. The cut scene depicts him lost in his feelings, enraged that she has run inside and, potentially, escaped from being his victim.
Thus, when she runs at the close of the film and it looks as though she is back on his tally, his tantrum as he dances and swings around is a show of even more exasperation than anything else.