Allen Danziger, Edwin Neal, Gunnar Hansen
A group of teenagers on the road in Texas stop off at the wrong farm and encounter a family gone awry. Once abattoir workers, the decay of the Southern rural economy has left them unemployed, and the ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 13, 1993
Stats: 7,724 reviews
It's not that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is gory. It's not too terribly scary. It's just disturbing as hell.
A group goes out to an old farm house while checking on the grave of a grandfather accidentally stumbles onto a crazed family in the middle of the Texas nowhere: a craz...( read more)
It's what you don't see that's so frightening in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a trick a lot of modern horror directors forget! The meat hook scene is subtle and brilliant! Classic horror.
Another movie I've been meaning to review for ages, since it's in my absolute top of preferences.
But these ones usually take longer, as I'm always afraid I'll end up missing something important, hence not making my review as just and praising as it should be.
In a few words, fi...( read more)
Blood & Gore. In the beginning with films like The Wolfman the genre started out pretty tame, then came along Psycho and shocked everybody, Night Of The Living Dead crossed the line in movies forever and in the 1970's there was a lot of exploitation films which did not aim for qu...( read more)
Aside from Halloween, I don't think there's any other slasher able to top The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
In short: disturbing, a hell of a lot of imitation blood, and if Sally didn't blow her voice out after filming the ending, it's a miracle.
It was made in the 70's so horror films were different back then. The amount of screaming the last remaining character (Sally) did drove me crazy. It wasn't scary but there were a few disturbing parts.
I was surprised at how effectively scary this was. The first half does really well at taking you along with this group of teens. It spells out nothing. It simply making hints here and there and you wonder if there is really something to be terrified of or if you are just creep...( read more)
This movie brings back child hood memories. I first saw it at the drive in. It was put on as a blast from the past before the original Evil Dead as an appetizer when it was released. I convinced my grandmother to get it for me who did not understand English at all. I told her it was a documentary about John F Kennedy. It is the only one which uses the name of Texas Chainsaw Massacre to sell it that was any good. In fact the original is quite excellent as in this film the actors act convincingly mental were as in all other since it the actors come off as just being stupid. This is the big thing. It's the big thing involved!
If you like the remake over this one, you don't know anything about horror or movies.
Yes much much better then the remake, makes this look a thousand times better.
I really love this movie, 20 times better then the remake, this movie is so strong and scary, it makes you wanna through-up, but its a good thing because the director did his job on making people feel like that.
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