I always found it funny that this movie was set in Texas but yet non of Leatherface's victims had a gun on them. It's Texas, you're gonna have at least one person packing heat.
shareNo movie, then? Leatherface captures one of them and the other walks in and just shoots Leatherface in the face. Roll credits. Nice 20 minute movie lol
shareThis didn't seem too unrealistic to me. They didn't strike me as characters who would be strolling around with guns.
Pam was talking about veganism in the van, and seemed repulsed by the idea of a slaughterhouse that killed cows. It's not a huge stretch to imagine other characters had similar viewpoints about killing/meat eating. Or at least, as her friends, would be respectful of her beliefs.
Besides, they were youngsters visiting a families grave/having a drive. Probably didn't occur to them that they'd need a gun.
They were young hippie-like kids in the early 70's, and I don't think they anticipated being set upon by a family of cannibals and a chainsaw welding transvestite...
And pistol-packing Texas teens would have diminished the terror or made it an altogether different movie.
They were picked off one at a time and were blindsided each time. It wouldn't have mattered.
shareMost people in the south don’t walk around packing but we always have one under the seat of the truck.
shareI think people think the citizens of Texas are Yosemite Sam.
shareEven if they did have a gun in the van, it wouldn't really have made any difference. None of them were close to the van when they got killed. Also Kirk, Pam, Jerry and Franklin were all taken somewhat by surprise, so unless the gun was within reaching distance, it wouldn't have helped them.
Sally was the only one who witnessed another being killed in the act and had time to run off, so I guess if there was gun she could've made her way back to the van to locate it. (Assuming she knew it was there.) But there wouldn't have really been any jeopardy there, would there?