Picture Supply: Netflix
When the chainsaw rips, horror film followers know it is time to begin working simply in case Leatherface is close by. For Sarah Yarkin — who performs “ultimate lady” Melody in David Blue Garcia’s “Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath” sequel on Netflix — that adrenaline-induced worry skyrocketed to 1,000 % when she was filming one of many film’s most terrifying scenes. Talking with POPSUGAR, Yarkin relived a few of her most tough filming days, together with the time she was requested to cram herself right into a makeshift crawl area and scramble away from a chainsaw-wielding serial killer whereas lined in chocolate oatmeal.
“I’ll be lined in sh*t and blood — signal me up. That is going to be freaking sick.”
“[There’s a] half within the film the place I’ve fallen beneath the home and I am in a crawl area with Leatherface with the chainsaw above me, attempting to get me,” Yarkin says. “That they had constructed this crawl area within the sound stage and also you needed to stand up a ladder to get into it. Then you definately’re sort of caught in it. That they had lined it simply with tons of dust and dirt. That is additionally in direction of the top of taking pictures the place I am already simply fully tousled, mentally and bodily drained.”
Yarkin will get one other chilly shock when a sewage pipe bursts over her character’s head, oozing what seems to be poop onto Melody’s head. “So then I am crawling on my palms and knees for 3 or no matter days. It was one thing else,” she says. “I feel that I used to be in survival mode — you’ve got simply obtained to maintain going. It was bananas. Then on the finish of the scene, a sewage pipe explodes on me, so then I am lined in poop and freezing chilly. [The poop] was faux snow that had been dyed brown. Then the remainder of the film, it was chocolate oatmeal that the make-up girl would make each night time for me.”
In fact, the crawl-space scene wasn’t the one terrifying second Yarkin filmed. Greater than anybody else within the movie, Melody is pressured to confront Leatherface head-on. For Yarkin, these scenes had been emotionally and bodily exhausting, however satisfying to look again on. “It is one factor to learn it on the web page and I am like, ‘Oh my God, I’ll be beneath a mattress. I’ll be crying. I’ll be hiding in a closet. I’ll be lined in sh*t and blood — signal me up. That is going to be freaking sick.’ After which while you’re in it, you are like, ‘Oh, a half web page of me hiding beneath the mattress is three days of me crying beneath a mattress with blood on me.’ It is a completely completely different actuality, and it is extra emotionally and bodily draining than I may have most likely ever imagined.”
Throughout considered one of Yarkin’s first days on set in Bulgaria, the make-up crew took a full solid of her face and physique to create a reproduction of her character that may very well be used within the movie’s ultimate minutes. “I am claustrophobic, in order that was perhaps the scariest a part of all of Bulgaria as a result of I did not know they’d cowl my eyes and my mouth and most of my nostril. In order that was horrifying,” she says. Three months after the solid was made, Yarkin got here nose to nose together with her prosthetic head.
Picture Supply: Netflix
“The producers and folks had been like, ‘Have you ever seen your head?’ and I used to be like, ‘No . . . no.’ The hair seemed identical to mine. They ended up, clearly, CGI-ing my face onto it as a result of the face itself seems like a doll. It would not seem like me, however everybody’s taking photos, sending it to me like, ‘Look what you seem like.’ And the pinnacle’s on the bottom, they usually had been like, ‘Take a look at you.’ It seems like a child doll. The know-how’s wonderful, however I am taking a look at it and I am like, ‘Do I seem like that? Do I seem like that?’ It simply seems like me, however a very tousled model. I used to be joking and I used to be like, ‘I’ve obtained to take this again with me and get it in my suitcase and see what Customs has to say.'”
Character demise apart, Yarkin did have one revolutionary second within the film that felt like redemption for her character and each different woman-led position in a slasher movie. Close to the top of the film, when Melody and Lila are taking over Leatherface within the deserted warehouse, the sisters are capable of distract him sufficient to knock the chainsaw out of his palms. Considering shortly, Melody grabs onto the weapon and makes use of it to present the serial killer a satisfying uppercut that sends him teetering backward right into a pool of water.
“That was most likely my favourite couple days of taking pictures as a result of the vast majority of the film is me working and hiding and crying,” Yarkin says. “So to have this motion sequence, I felt like I obtained to be a cool little badass for a sec. And I obtained to be a little bit motion hero, which felt tremendous cool. I used to be taking management. I started working with the stunt coordinator and do among the stunts and work with the wonderful stunt doubles.”
No, Melody and her severed head seemingly will not be again to enact any extra revenge on Leatherface. However there’s at all times hope that Lila will comply with in her footsteps in any potential sequels that come our approach. For now, we’ll quietly be reliving each chilling scene and catching up on some horror-movie classics to arrange ourselves.