Franklin: If I have any more fun today I don't think I can take it! Franklin: They just shoot a bullet in their head, and then retract it. It's just BOOM-shht-BOOM-shht. Sally: Franklin, I like meat, please change the subject! Franklin: I think we just picked up Dracula. Old Man: I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it. Old Man: Those girls... those girls don't wanna go messin' round no old house!
[last lines] Sally: Go! Go! Old Man: Look what your brother did to the door! Ain't got no, no pride in his home! Old Man: You damn fool you ruined the door! Hitchhiker: [to Sally] And, and I thought YOU was in a hurry! Hitchhiker: My family's always been in meat. Jerry: That's the last goddamn hitchhiker I ever pick up. Jerry: Come on guys, quit goofing on me.
[first lines] Narrator: The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare. The events of that day were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.