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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2-Disc Ultimate Edition) by Tobe Hooper
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Allen Danziger, Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Teri McMinn, William Vail Director: Tobe Hooper Brand: MPI DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled) Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.78:1 Running Time: 84 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Dark Sky Films
Movie Reviews of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2-Disc Ultimate Edition)Movie Review: Guess who's coming to dinner! Oh, uh, I mean, guess who's going to be dinner!? Summary: 3 StarsHippies....
Semi-mentally-challenged guy in wheelchair with a real attitude
Hitchhiker that likes to cut himself like an emo
Bizarre rural family that likes to hit girls with hammers over buckets to provide entertainment for grampa (who incidentally, is one heck of a rough stretch of highway!)
Hanging people on a hook (literally-speaking!)
That says it all!
I mean, what's up with Texas and cults, man!? It always seems like movies with crazy Satanists or cult freaks or cannibals are always in rural Texas? Did the movie industry in the 70's have a hate-affair with Texas? LOL
I met Gunner Hanson, the guy playing Leatherface, at a horror movie convention, autograph and all! Woo-hoo! LOL...He said that the worst part of making this movie was that he was so short. They had to put him on stilts to make him look taller. He said the chase seen where he's running after the girl toward the end of the movie was torture. She was running so slow that he had to puposely run at a ridiculously slow pace with these awkward stilts on. I thought it was funny the way he described it. It was something like, "will you hurry up lady, you're running to slow, I can catch you! Speed it up already!" [paraphrasing what he said he was thinking....lol]
This movie is pretty bizarre. Not for the kiddies for sure. I saw it when I was 12 and it scared the poopola out of me!
One of the big selling points for this movie was Dan Fielding's, uh I mean, John Larroquette's opening narration that claimed the movie was a TRUE STORY. Years later, when we all found out that that was total bull, we all didn't want to watch it anymore (my friends and I). Heck, that was half the spookiness about it! It turned out to be fake! bahhh...lol
The rest of the movies were lame as heck. I agree with another poster that this movie is probably good for just one time. I wouldn't buy it on DVD.
Summary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2-Disc Ultimate Edition)It has been called "grisly," "sick," and "perverse," as well as "raw," "unshakeable," and "the movie that redefined horror." It was attacked by churches, banned by governments, and acclaimed by only the bravest of critics. It stunned audiences worldwide and set a new standard in movie terror forever. In 1974, writer-producer-directorTobe Hooper unleashed this dark, visionary tale about a group of five young friends who face a nightmare of torment at the hands of a depraved Texas clan. Today it remains unequaled as a landmark of outlaw filmmaking and unparalleled in its impact as perhaps the most frightening motion picture ever made. Dark Sky Films presents this masterpiece like you've never seen or heard it before, newly transferred in High Definition from the 16mm camera originals, remixed in 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo Surround, and featuring never-before-seen Bonus Features produced exclusively for this definitive collection. Bonus Features: - Steelbook Packaging
- Feature-length commentary with actors Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Allen Danzinger, and art director Robert A. Burns
- Feature-length commentary with director Tobe Hooper, cinematographer Daniel Pearl, and actor Gunnar Hansen
- Theatrical Trailers & TV and Radio Spots
- "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth"
- "Flesh Wounds"
- A Tour of the TCSM house with Gunnar Hansen
- Deleted Scenes and Outtakes
- Blooper Reel
- "The Shocking Truth" Outtakes
- Still Gallery
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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