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| Pam Willard | |
| Aliases: | Pam |
| Continuity: | Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
| Notability: | Supporting character |
| Type: | Hippie Victim |
| Gender: | Female |
| Location: | Newt, Muerto County, Texas |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Died: | August, 1973 |
| First: | Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The |
| Actor: | Teri McMinn |
Pam Willard is a fictional hippie and murder victim, and a supporting character featured in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series. Played by actress Teri McMinn, she appeared in the 1974 horror movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Biography[]
Pam was an astrology enthusiast who was romantically linked to a guitarist named Kirk. Pam and Kirk came to the Sawyer farmhouse looking for gas. Instead, what they found was the cannibal known as Leatherface. Pam was Leatherface's second victim. He killed her by hanging her on a meat hook then sealing her inside of a freezer.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Jerry was created by director and writer Tobe Hooper and co-writer Kim Henkel.
- Pam/TCM redirects to this page.
- Final fate: Impaled on a meat hook by Leatherface.
- Pam is the second character to die in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. She is the only female character in the film that dies.
- Pam is the only character in the first movie who is impaled. She is also the only character in the movie with a meat hook.
- More visceral images of Pam's demise were shot for the film, but were not actually included. Director Tobe Hooper trimmed a lot of violent images from the final cut of the movie in the hopes of getting a PG rating.
- Actress Teri McMinn received fifth billing The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
- This is actress Teri McMinn's first work in film. She also appears in the 2012 movie Butcher Boys as a woman with a pick. Fellow Texas Chainsaw Massacre actors Edwin Neal, Bill Johnson, Ed Guinn, John Dugan, and Perry Lorenz also appear in this movie.
- Pam's flip flops fly off her feet when see gets captured by leatherface.
- In the "Chainsaw" episode of Scream Queens, Professor Gardner shows The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to his class. Clips from the film featuring Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface and Teri McMinn as Pam Willard are included.