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With Pam back in the freezer and Jerry dead on the floor, we get a moment alone with Leatherface in the house, and there's just so much here to think about. Other films might not have given us these precious seconds of quiet in which our killer, human skin stretched over his own head and all, actually gets to contemplate what's happening in front of him. Given the context of everything that came before, and everything that's about to come after, this pause, this breath for simple contemplation, feels almost revolutionary.