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Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
831 |
Avg. Rating: |
2.86/4 |
# of Ratings: |
313 |
Genres: |
Horror |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
English |
Theater Date: | 10/18/1974 |
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Director: |
Tobe Hooper |
Actors: |
Marilyn Burns
Allen Danziger
Paul A. Partain
William Vail
Teri McMinn
Jim Siedow |
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Plot Outline:
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A group of five friends travel through rural Texas when they pick up a strange hitchhiker. Things go from bad to worse when they end up at an old farm house that is home to a cannibalistic family.
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smokiediebear 08/30/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
The movie that made a town come to life or death rather. Lower budget but instant classic. A must for horror lovers, this is a older movie so the young may find it boring, and if so the remakes will be better for you. |
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Alaine 12/13/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
2.5/4 |
The original. What can be done with a limited budget and a talented filmmaker. Not a gorefest, but plenty unsettling.. |
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mitchellyoung 11/20/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
2/4 |
Here's the explanation of the rating: Texas Chainsaw Massacre is undeniably a masterfully made horror film. It implies more than it shows and its low-budget, documentary-style filmmaking style creates a genuinely unsettling and often horrifying film. Since this is my personal rating, however, I didn't find anything to take away from the film and found it to be a depressing and bleak portrait of hopelessness. |
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05/03/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre review |
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A gruesome film inspired by the crimes of real-life murderer Ed Gein. Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her paraplegic brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), travel with three friends, Jerry (Allen Danziger), Kirk (William Vail), and Pam (Teri McMinn) visit Sally's grandfather's grave. The editing could have been improved and appropriate character background would have been nice. The sound, settings, props and acting were solid to make it horrific. Surprisingly, some of the dialogue was provocative for its genre, "There are somethings you gotta do. It don't mean you gotta like it." - the proprietor/cook (Jim Siedow) "Everything means something, I guess." - Sally. Overall, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre falls short if done today since it's light plot doesn't entertain much except for th... |
Rating of
2.5/4 |
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03/06/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
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There are horror films which bend the boundaries of the genre, which deal with the psychological, the suggested or the subtly thematic – and then there are the sheer, in-your-face, terrifying horrors which threaten to drain your body of sweat and lock your jaw shut forever. This is one of the latter. There have been sequels and remakes and plenty of pretenders looking to steal the film’s terrifying demonisation of those strange folk who live in the woods with a link to the local abattoir, but this is where it began. Its methods are basic: innocent kids (a guy in a wheelchair! A blonde girl!), a creepy house in the forest, nighttime chases through the trees, the sound of the chainsaw, the killer’s mask… This is high-energy peril, right up until the frenzied final scene on the road as dawn ... |
Rating of
3/4 |
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01/16/2012 (0 of 1 found this helpful) |
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"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" by Yojimbo |
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A group of friends on a road trip unwitting stumble into the lair of a chainsaw wielding psychopath. Celebrated as one of the all-time horror greats, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is more an exercise in the macabre than outright gore. In fact, there is very little in the way of blood and guts and the murders happen swiftly and without gruesome detail. The reason that this film is so unsettling is the way that Leatherface is so matter of fact about it all; despite the fact that his victims are pretty girls, he has no interest in molesting them in any way. They are just meat, pure and simple. He basically treats human life with no more respect or reverence than any other animals and the constant references to slaughterhouses and the furniture and trophies fashioned from bones of all kinds, animal... |
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2/4 |
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