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Marilyn Burns
Allen Danziger
Paul A. Partain
William Vail
Teri McMinn
Jim Siedow

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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.

11/09/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Turns 35

It has been thirty-five years since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre left its indelible mark on the horror oeuvre. Tobe Hooper’s only (arguably) great contribution to the genre hasn’t lost any of its potency. The overt sadism in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is enough to make Eli Roth blush. Sequels have come and gone, and a remake was made, but no one has been able to match the formula of gore, thrill, and sheer terror of the original. A groundbreaking film in many aspects, the purity of its violence has paved the way for films like Hostel, Saw, and any of the recent films with overt or gratuitous violence and gore. The Mockumentary aspect of the film has laid the groundwork for The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, and innumerable lesser films. Keep in mind that some people actually be...

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4/4 

10/05/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

A Classic

Simply a classic. Gunnar Hanson possibly being the only true 'leatherface' out there. None of the newer hacks can do it like Gunnar. Inspired by the brutal man Ed Gein, this film is about a deminted man, with an even more deminted family, sawing up the innocent who travel through their life. A horror classic indeed.

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3/4 

01/18/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Great, Great Horror Movie, Damn Remakes.

Tobe Hooper created one of the most terrifying,disturbing and realistic films in horror genre history.There's a very little visible violence in this film,but the atmosphere of sheer dread and terror is simply overwhelming."The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" is loosely based on activities of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein.Gein,a necrophiliac serial killer and devotee of the wartime Nazi concentration camp medical experimentalists is thought to have inspired the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho"(1960)and two low-budget horror movies "Deranged"(1974)and "Three on a Meathook"(1972)by his macabre deeds in the late 50's.On one occasion he plundered a Wisconsin graveyard by night for edible body parts,and flayed one corpse to fashion a waistcoat souvenir.Some time later,when police called at his ho...

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4/4 

12/08/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Must be Admired for Its Craft, Not Intensity

The attention to detail this film had impressed me because one doesn’t encounter that often in horror pictures. I can understand why this became a classic because it’s comedic and horrific, sometimes at the same time, and it’s inspired enough to dabble with the macabre. With its brisk pace of slightly under an hour and twenty-five minutes, the moment Leatherface appeared, the film refuses to let go of its audience. There were several highlights in this film and one of them I had mentioned already (Leatherface’s first appearance–the way he shut that door plays over and over in my head): the lead character’s (Marilyn Burns) chase from the woods to the house, Teri McMinn’s fall in the kitchen while the camera looms about and all we hear is the chicken, and the dinner scene when the grandfath...

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3/4