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I said when we started this journey that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of those rare films that I'm never really prepared to experience, and sure enough the film's proven me correct again already. This essay was originally going to be about the legendary Hitchhiker scene, but he'll have to wait just a little longer, because revisiting the film again last night, I was struck by something else.