to subvert more expectations within the genre. Looking at films such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) & Friday The 13th (1980) for reference, the audience might be expecting Johnny to be in the back of the pick-up truck or for the Woman (Lauren-Marie Taylor of Friday The 13th Part 2) to have some connection to Johnny. None of that ever comes.

Head Through Stomach

First, the women who rescued Kris on the road needed a little build up, so that took up some time. The purpose of her story was to flesh out the "henhouse syndrome" connection to Johnny where the bear in her story was killing for satisfaction for a while after killing plenty enough for eating. The comparison was that Jonny wasn't a man, he was a beast and that he didn't return to his grave after getting back his necklace because Kris got away and he needs that "one last kill" before going away like the bear in the truck driver's story. All of this is further proved by what the ranger said when he met up with campers, the ranger was able to get Johnny back to his final resting place so Johnny would have probably awoken again whether his necklace was stolen or not - he kills the ranger and gets his necklace back, but he won't go back to his resting place because Kris got away.

I thought that whole scenario was well thought out even though it came across a bit cheesy in execution (mainly at how rushed the ranger's explanation was - if they slowed it down, it would have played much better). Either way, it shows how the director wanted to give his slasher movie more depth.

that it was trying to throw the viewer off in thinking that maybe the lady will give her up or something or that he is going to pop out again at some point, but it doesn't do that, and I loved it for that.