Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Texas Chain Saw Massacre

This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem's Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it's also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it's blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they're held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie's powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style--but it also has a wicked sense of humor (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the '70s, '80s, and '90s). OK, in case you couldn't tell, it's "not for everyone." But as a landmark in the development of the horror/slasher genre, it ranks with Psycho, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. --Jim Emerson

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R (Restricted)
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1974
83
11,638 Views

Franklin:
If I have any more fun today I don't think I can take it!

Franklin:
They just shoot a bullet in their head, and then retract it. It's just BOOM-shht-BOOM-shht.

Sally:
Franklin, I like meat, please change the subject!

Franklin:
I think we just picked up Dracula.

Old Man:
I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it.

Old Man:
Those girls... those girls don't wanna go messin' round no old house!

Sally:
Go! Go!

Old Man:
Look what your brother did to the door! Ain't got no, no pride in his home!

Old Man:
You damn fool you ruined the door!

Hitchhiker:
My family's always been in meat.

Jerry:
That's the last goddamn hitchhiker I ever pick up.

Jerry:
Come on guys, quit goofing on me.

Narrator:
The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare. The events of that day were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Hitchhiker:
You could have dinner with us...

Hitchhiker:
"You! I thought you was in a hurry!!"

I got nothing

Momma I'm sorry

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