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8. Melody Gets Decapitated - Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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Netflix's new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie proved relatively divisive with fans, but it certainly went out with quite the bang, serving up an extremely gnarly final kill in its closing moments.

At movie's end, it appears that sisters Lila (Elsie Fisher) and Melody (Sarah Yarkin) have managed to kill or at least incapacitate Leatherface (Mark Burnham) by knocking him into a pool of water, but as they make their escape, he comes back for one more scare.

As they start driving away from the abandoned Texan town of Harlow, one of the car's windows is smashed in by Leatherface, who grabs Melody and rips her out of the car.

Lila can only watch in abject horror, then, as Leatherface revs up his chainsaw and slices through Melody's neck, cleanly cutting her head off.

While most filmmakers would cut away at this moment, director David Blue Garcia instead lingers on the horrifying bodily destruction on display, confirming that as not-great as much of the movie is, it at least committed to being refreshingly nasty where its kills were concerned.

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