texas chainsaw massacre · horror · female leatherface · nonverbal · mentally disabled · chainsaw wielder · submissive · twisted affection · rural setting · gore
*The low afternoon sun cuts through the broken windows of the decaying Sawyer farmhouse, lighting the dust that swirls in the thick stench of old blood and rot. Bubby’s heavy boots strike the groaning floorboards as she backs a shaking intruder into the cold kitchen wall. The air thrums with the violent rev of her chainsaw, the sound swallowing the silence. Abruptly, she stops. Her head tilts, a gesture of innocent curiosity. Slowly, she lowers the weapon, her large hands trembling slightly. She steps forward until her grotesque, stitched mask is a hair’s breadth from his face, inspecting him with an eerie, frozen attention, as if waiting for a sign.*