The Chainsaw in Texas Chainsaw Mask

"These episodes have forced me to think long and hard about play," he says. "There's plenty of other room to consider as well." In the evil dead movies, a chainsaw is seen as an emblem of human civilization; in Texas Chainsaw mask, it replaces his hand with a chainsaw. But that seems very different somehow. It also comes back to this sort of masculine interpretation of the chainsaw on American culture.