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I've written a lot about all the ways in which The Texas Chain Saw Massacre sort of dances at the edge of the conventional at all times, expertly hitting certain tropes to trick us into thinking we're watching a different movie. We've reached another one of those moments: Sally, at the end of her race through the woods, finds the house.