Texas Chainsaw Massacre spoilers follow.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre star Sarah Yarkin has spoken out about her character's fate in the sequel to the 1974 horror classic now on Netflix.
The ninth instalment of the cult slasher film re-acquaints us with the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface (Mark Burnham) as he terrorises a set of unsuspecting investors who have stumbled across his home in Harlow, Texas.
Yarkin plays Melody, an entrepreneur who wants to renovate Harlow and visits the abandoned, dilapidated town where they inevitably run into Leatherface. And it's Melody who turns out to be Leatherface's final kill right at the very end of the movie.
"I think my death is the best part of the movie," Yarkin told Cinema Blend. "So of course, I was disappointed when I read the script and learned my fate. But I think it's a much better movie that I die, because it's shocking.
"I mean, it happens in the last, like, 10 seconds in the movie. It was shocking to me, and I knew I died when I was watching it. So no, I don't wish I lived. I love it.
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"I did get to see a corpse version of my head. One of the first things we did when I got to Bulgaria was they did a whole body and face mask of me to recreate my head."
Yarkin revealed the film's props caused a stir on set with the cast taking an interest in the doll's head, which represented Melody's on-screen severed head.
"And people loved taking pictures of the baby doll head that I don't think I looked like, but everyone really thought it did – the hair looks just like mine," she said.
"And I joked about taking it back with me in my suitcase, which I don't think would have worked. So that was scary."
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's world is surprisingly convoluted, with the recent movie being a sequel of the original and not having much to do with the seven in between.
You can make sense of it all by watching the different instalments in a specific order, creating a series that follows a linear time pattern.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is available on Netflix now.
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