Indeed it does. Leatherface is really a sort of modern era gargoyle.
That's why I wanted to draw attention to the two depictions of the iconic American horror film psycho presented in the attached image in this post.
On the left is the well-known image of Leatherface running down the street from his house in suit-and-tie from the original Tobe Hooper film, and fans have re-presented the film-still by presenting it in black-and-white.
On the right is another iconic scene from the Hooper film in which Leatherface is eerily ripping apart a human victim on a table while a female victim hangs screaming on a metal hook behind the ghoul.
The image on the left symbolizes the brutishness of Leatherface, a creep in a suit-and-tie (probably a spin on the old 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' adage). The image on the right symbolizes the hellish purgatory created by Leatherface's terrible deeds.
So the two images do seem to suggest that we really have *two* renditions of Leatherface:
1. the psychosis 'diplomat'
2. the terror 'angel'
This 'philosophical bifurcation' implies that Leatherface is a sort of demon-knight, which is why perhaps we associate the psycho's chainsaw with a 'doomsayer sword' (e.g.,
Excalibur).
IMO, Leatherface is the modern
Grendel.
