The scene after leatherface kills her BF, Chrissie manages to run up the stairs and make it to the wide open front door. She's JUST about to get out, but then decides to go back for her other friends.
If it was me, I would have ran off, gotten help and hoped that crazy family would have just spent time looking for me instead of killing my friends.
Run as the hell out of there... With all that experience and cruel things, I can't help but run to save my own life, and get help afterward...
Doesn't make any difference when I stay there and go up stair... [the moment I decide staying, I simply die in up-coming unchangeable destination].
So I've just run away.
I had the same thought. It would be a hard decision to make - leave now and maybe you'll live, but at the expense of leaving another person to a horrible fate. Logic dictates that your best chance is to just cut your losses and run. But what if it was somebody you knew? Even somebody you loved? Could you live with yourself if you ran off without them? It wouldn't be easy either way.
shareThat scene definitely reminded me of the opening of 28 Weeks Later when the father has to decide whether to help his wife in a matter of seconds, just a less intense, spur of the moment decision than 28's, and more of an emotionally draining kind of decision, but both of them very similar.
I'd go back for immediate family...and that's about it. But I will admit that scene was shot very well. Love how Chrissie limps out the front door, and you're like "yes, get out of there bitch, run", and you hear Bailey's distant screams from the top of the plantation house, and Chrissie's face just hangs in turmoil and debate with herself as the camera backs wayyyy up to show how huge the house looks and how hopeless it seems to find Bailey inside. Great shot.