TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2022.
You just finished watching the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie on Netflix, and, if you were
smart, you kept watching until the end of the credits and caught that Texas Chainsaw
Massacre after credits scene.
Now your head is spinning, and you’re wondering, “What does it mean?
What does it all mean?”
Of course, for most of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre run-time—a breezy 83 minutes—it’s
really not that deep.
Leatherface has a big ol’ chainsaw, and he brutally murders people with it.
And, because the 2022 Texas Chainsaw Massacre is considered to be a direct sequel to the
1974 movie, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, that means you don’t even need to have seen
the other seven films in the franchise.
They are not considered canon, for the purpose of this new movie.
That said, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre end credits scene may throw you for a loop.
Or perhaps you just want to skip ahead and know who survives.
Whatever your reason CONTINUE WATCHING THE breakdown of the new Texas Chainsaw movie
plot summary and the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre ending explained.
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2022 RECAP AND ENDING EXPLAINED.
Melody (Sarah Yarkin) is a young businesswoman from San Francisco who has a plan to turn
a near-ghost town in rural Texas into a tourist and real estate destination for rich elitists.
She drags along her younger sister Lila (Elsie Fisher) to a meeting with potential investors
in the town.
Lila is recovering from a traumatic shooting at her school, and Melody hopes her sister
will join her in Texas so that they can stay together.
When Melody, Lila, and their friends arrive in Harlow, Texas, they discover something
in the town they don’t want their investors to see: a Confederate flag.
They try to remove it.
They assume the house flying it is abandoned, so they are surprised when an old woman asks
what they are doing in her house.
The old woman serves her unexpected guests some sweet tea.
She tells them the house is an old orphanage that she ran for nearly 50 years.
When Melody tentatively informs the old lady that the house has been reclaimed by the bank
and that she needs to move out, the old lady gets upset.
While the old lady is panicking, a menacing figure appears in the stairwell.
We don’t see his face.
The old woman tells the man to go back to his room, that she is fine.
“He’s the last of my boys,” she tells Melody.
“He needs special care.
He doesn’t do well outside, that’s why I can’t be here.”
The police come to remove the old woman from the property, and she collapses in fear.
The same looming figure from before scoops her up and puts her in the police car, to
take her to the hospital.
One of Melody’s friends, played by Jessica Allain, offers to ride with them to the hospital,
so that she can let Melody know the woman is OK.
As they drive away, Lila gets a chilling glace at the looming figure’s face in shadow,
and she sees only an eye.
As you may have guessed, that looming figure is none other than Leatherface (played by
Mark Burnham), aka the chainsaw-wielding murderer who was first played by Gunnar Hansen in the
1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.
When the orphanage lady dies on the way to the hospital, Leatherface goes on a murderous
rampage, killing everyone in the truck with his chainsaw.
Most of the rest of the movie follows Leatherface as he attempts to hunt down Melody, whom he
clearly blames for the death of his surrogate mother figure.
The only survivor from Leatherface’s murderous rampage 50 years ago, a woman named Sally
Hardesty (previously played by Marilyn Burns, now played by Olwen Fouéré) gets word that
Leatherface is back.
She comes to Harlow with weapons, hoping to defeat him for good.
Leatherface cuts up a lot of people with his chainsaw, and soon only Melody and Lila are
left of their friends.
Sally shows up at just the right moment with her van, but instead of driving away, Sally
insists they have to stay until Sally can kill Leatherface.
Unfortunately, Leatherface gets the better of Sally, and she is left nearly dead in the
street.
Leatherface pursues Melody and Lila.
They try to hit him with the van, but crash.
Melody is trapped in the van and tells Lila to run and leave her behind.
Lila does—but then comes back and tries to shoot Leatherface.
She’s out of ammo, but luckily, Sally appears and uses the last of her strength to shoot
Leatherface in the shoulder.
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE ENDING EXPLAINED?
A dying Sally tells Lila not to run—”If you run, he’ll never stop haunting you,”—so
instead of helping her sister and getting the heck out of there, Lila follows Leatherface
into the abandoned theater, armed with a rifle.
For some reason, there is a pool of water in this theater, and Leatherface tackles Lila
and nearly drowns her.
Eventually, Lila pulls herself out of the water, but Leatherface gets the better of
her.
He’s about to chop her up with his chainsaw when her sister, Melody, comes out of nowhere
and jumps on him.
Lila shoots Leatherface in the stomach with her last bullet.
Then Melody picks up the chainsaw and cuts him up the middle—but it’s a fairly shallow
cut.
Leatherface falls into the water.
At first, we see bubbles that show he is still breathing, but eventually, the bubbles stop,
suggesting that he is dead.
Is Leatherface finally gone, once and for all?
Nope!
In the film’s final scene, Lila and Mel get into their fancy car and turn on autopilot
mode.
Just as the car starts to pull away, Leatherface suddenly appears and grabs Mel through the
passenger window.
He beheads her in the street with his chainsaw, while Lila screams from the car that is still
driving away on autopilot.
IS THERE A TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE AFTER CREDITS SCENES?
Yes.
If you wait until the very end of the credits, you’ll get a bonus scene of Leatherface
limping down a dirt road with his chainsaw, toward a quaint little farmhouse with a windmill.
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE POST CREDITS SCENE EXPLAINED:
Leatherface is headed toward a house that true Texas Chainsaw fans might recognize:
It’s Leatherface’s house where he lived with his brother, aka the early 1900s farmhouse
where the first 1974 movie, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was filmed.