Marilyn Burns, one of the original “scream queens” who starred in Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” died Tuesday in Texas. She was 65 and was found dead in her home near Houston.
“Texas Chainsaw” was her first lead role; in it she played teenager Sally Hardesty, who goes with her brother and friends to the cemetery where her grandfather is buried and ends up as the only survivor of an encounter with the insane family led by chainsaw-wielding Leatherface.
Burns was born in Erie, Penn., raised in Texas and had small parts in films including Robert Altman’s “Brewster McCloud” while she was still in high school, and George Roy Hill’s “The Great Waldo Pepper.”
But she was most known for horror films including Hooper’s 1977 “Eaten Alive,” about an insane hotel proprietor who feeds his guests to his pet alligator. Among her other films were “Kiss Daddy Goodbye” and “Future-Kill.”
In 1976, she appeared in TV movie “Helter Skelter” as Charles Manson follower Linda Kasabian. She had a cameo in “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation” and was seen in her original role in archival footage in “Texas Chainsaw 3D.”
Source: Variety
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This unique kaleidoscopic mix of ancient drum machine pulses, retro-synths, warm sequences and captivating melodies swirls and envelopes you in an ultimate sonic odyssey. Since 1998, the French project Oil 10 has produced pure electronic tracks in which powerful, elegant and analogical sounds mix-up. Gilles Rossire shows that research doesn't always mean icy hermetism and achieves a terrific fusion between ambient and electro. His approach can be explained by the diversity of his influences: essential first albums of Kraftwerk or Tangerine ream, Klaus Schulze, Brian Eno, LFO, Pan sonic, FSOL, Autechre, Dead Can Dance, the 80s electro pop scene (OMD, Freur, Fad Gadget, Ultravox, Depeche Mode...) and electronic heirs (IAMX, Goldfrapp, Ladytron,..). Let yourself be taken away by the hauntingly machinery of Oil 10’s Modularium!
