In Memoriam: Marilyn Burns

The star of Helter Skelter having passed away, Marilyn Burns is probably best known for her starring role and awesome performance in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In that role, she was memorizing and the ending, with her on the back of the pickup truck....as the final girl, she is just perfect. You can say she became the template of what and how you do a final girl in a slasher film....especially one as beloved as this one is. The film is intense and, you feel how she feels at the end of the movie. This was a franchise that kept pulling her back in with cameos in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation and Texas Chainsaw 3D. However, no matter what else she did career wise, she will always be Sally Hardesty who was with her friends, hanging out, surviving the madness and running from Leatherface to safety.