Which, fair enough: the Chainsaw timeline became convoluted to the point of incoherence ages ago woe unto anyone tasked with making sense of that whole Illuminati subplot that The Next Generation introduced, for example. It also implicitly asserts its superiority as the real next chapter in the story. Like Green’s Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is billed as a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper’s original film, which means it ignores at least seven other Chainsaw sequels, prequels, and assorted reboots. To make an even more apt comparison, she’s like Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie Strode in David Gordon Green’s 2018 reboot of Halloween and its sequel, having similarly devoted her life to preparing to kill the masked man who tormented her so many years ago. Trauma has hardened Sally into a survivalist, like Sarah Connor in Terminator 2. A bit of voiceover from John Larroquette, reprising his narrator role from Tobe Hooper’s original, informs us that Sally eventually overcame her mental breakdown and joined the Texas Rangers. She’s become a stony badass in a tank top, a mane of untamed white hair cascading down her back. Now played by the Irish theater star Olwen Fouéré-Sally’s original portrayer, Houston actress Marilyn Burns, died in 2014-she’s first glimpsed calmly gutting a pig with a Buck knife. By the looks of things, she’s feeling much better. Proudly defying continuity, Sally Hardesty returns for the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the confusingly titled sequel that arrives February 18 on Netflix. Sally wasn’t seen on-screen again until a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo in 1994’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, where she was just a mute shell of a woman strapped to a gurney. Subsequent Chainsaw films revealed that Sally had been institutionalized almost immediately, slipping into catatonia inside a mental hospital. The last audiences saw of Sally Hardesty, the sole survivor of 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, she was left broken and barely alive after her narrow escape from Leatherface and his family of backwoods cannibals.
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