9 Insulting Ways Characters Were Killed Off Between Horror Movies
4. Sally Hardesty Dies In Hospital - Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
Another character who had a pretty terrible time was Sally Hardesty, the final girl of the 1974 legend of the genre, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Having survived Leatherface and the Sawyers in possibly the worst dinnertime gathering ever and disappearing into the sunrise with a maniacal grin on her face, viewers hoped that there might be at least some mention of what happened to her in the years that followed.
What they got was one line. One singular line in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre III’s title crawl. Not even a cameo or a flashback. All it says is that she died in 1977 in a healthcare facility.
Not only was this insulting, given the legacy of TCM by the time the third instalment was released, but also seeing how she was absent from the darkly comic Texas Chainsaw Massacre II. Her absence made the heart grow fonder for her, and to simply be met with this anticlimactic, factual statement was something not even Viggo Mortensen could save.
I’m not even going to give her weird, unexplained and continuity-destroying cameo in TCM: The Next Generation any mention - the less said about that movie, the better.