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If you reach the end of this and you're still hungry for more in-depth analysis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, I'd recommend Alexandre O. Philippe's wonderful documentary Chain Reactions. I won't spoil it, and I won't lean too hard on it for my own analysis either, but in that film director Karyn Kusama said something very interesting: She mentioned that Tobe Hooper has "a thing with doorways."