The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
by Tobe Hooper
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Actor: Allen Danziger, Edwin Neal, Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, William VailDirector: Tobe Hooper
Producer: Tobe Hooper
Writer: Tobe Hooper
Producer: Jay Parsley
Producer: Kim Henkel
Writer: Kim Henkel
Producer: Louis Peraino
Producer: Richard Saenz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-10-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Movie Reviews of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Movie Review: Guess who's coming to dinner! Oh, uh, I mean, guess who's going to be dinner!?
Summary: 3 Stars
Hippies....
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
The ultimate version of a classic horror film. Painstakingly restored from the original 16mm ECO negatives, this special edition presents Tobe Hooper's classic film as you've never seen it before. Now...step into the twisted world of the ultimate dysfunctional family and rediscover the total madness of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Includes: audio commentary featuring Tobe Hooper, director of photography Daniel Pearl and Gunnar Hansen ("Leatherface"), 30 minutes of deleted scenes and outtakes, blooper reel, original theatrical trailers and television spots and still photos. Starring: Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen.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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