20 AWFUL Horror Movie Moments You Wish You Could Forget
4. Texas Chainsaw 3D: "Do Your Thing, Cuz!"
Some lines of dialogue are so awful they become cemented in cinematic legend. "I don't like sand." "Somehow Palpatine returned." "Save Martha!" "Too bad you... will die!" "It's turkey time." Pretty much everything Tommy Wiseau says in The Room.
And, to join the ranks, we've got "Do your thing, cuz!", a piece of dialogue that has single-handedly secured Texas Chainsaw 3D a space in internet infamy. Protagonist Heather (Alexandra Daddario) yells this out as she tosses Leatherface his chainsaw, to cringe-inducing effect. Daddario is a talented actress, as anyone who's seen her work in TV will know, but even she couldn't make this sound anything less than toe-curling.
Heather, who has turned out to be a long-lost member of the Sawyer family, has been tied up in a slaughterhouse by a corrupt police department. They want to lure Leatherface to his death, but he frees Heather when he realizes their family connection and she joins forces with him despite the fact that he's murdered her friends and tried to kill her many times.
Everything about this sequence - the fight choreography, the plot holes, the way Leatherface is suddenly presented as the good guy while the sheriff's department are cartoonish villains out of nowhere - is just intolerably ridiculous, and none of it makes any sense.