The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (DVD)

...terrifying horror that reaches to the dark depths of your inner most fears. ///////////////STORYLINE///////////// Its a hot summer in Texas and 5 teenagers in a van are driving along a remote part of countryside heading to a graveyard.Sally and her boyfriend Jerry, her brother Franklin (who is in a wheel chair)and two friends Pam and Kirk are going to check out Sally's grandfathers grave as there has been a shocking discovery that grave robbers ...
...old house as its along the way.A weird hitch hiker is on the road and they decide to give the man a lift.The man is very weird and covered in blood and is clearly abit nutty.The gang throws him out after he goes mental and carry on to Sally's granddads house abit shaken.They stop off to get gas and meet more weird people selling cooked meat.The gas station has ran out of gas so they go to Sally's Granddads house. Pam and Kirk go looking for a river ...

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...Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The >>>>> <<<<< RATING: ****1/2 (out of 5) >>>>> <<<<< CAST: Gunnar Hanson, Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, John Dugan, Robert Courtin, William Creamer, John Henry Foulk, Jerry Green, Ed Guinn, Joe Bill Hogan. Narration by John Larroquette. >>>>> <<<<< DIRECTOR: Tobe Hooper >>>>> <<<<< STUDIO: Bryanston Films (Original Distributer); New Line Cinema >>>>> ...
...look at my list of the Top Ten Horror Films of All Time, half of them are fondly remembered and others you never even heard of. The film that was number six on that list was THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE an unrelenting, almost unbearably frightening horror film with a moderate amount of black humor to balance out the scares. I saw it a few years ago and almost couldn’t finish watching it. Recently, I decided to rent the Special Edition DVD and was ...

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...Mail “This is about the sickest carnival of slaughter ever seen...why did the Greater London Council let this nightmare through?”- The News of the World “Despicable…ugly and obscene…a degrading, senseless misuse of film and time” - The Los Angeles Times Thirty years after its American cinematic release does ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ live up to its reputation as one of the most terrifying and violent films ever made? Is its content so shocking ...
...release of the film until 1998 was justified? The answer is a resounding, no. Tobe (pronounced Toby) Hooper’s infamous film is now more a curiosity than the nightmarish vision that supposedly greeted cinemagoers in 1974. Watching the film today it seems ridiculous that this darkly comic slice of macabre (which is almost totally lacking in gore) caused such outrage and intrigue. So much has been said about this film it’s almost impossible to review ...

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...of a fever pitch in the 1970s. In 1973, The Exorcist was released upon an unwitting public - one year later in 1974, a very different type of horror film was released - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Since 1974, the film has courted much controversy and like The Exorcist was unable to obtain a certification for video release until many years later. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre crafts a simple - and yet rather unpleasant story. What makes the film even ...
...account of the exploits of real-life serial killer Ed Gein. Five youths are travelling back to the place where they grew up in Texas. The town has recently suffered a spate of grave-robbings and the group wish to make sure that their relatives' graves have not been disturbed. As the group travel along the scorching roads they pick up- and quickly eject - a hitchhiker with an unhealthy obsession with self-mutilation. Finally locating an old family ...

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When released in 1974 the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a film that was ahead of its time. Or at least ahead of the Censors. Injecting subjects such as grave robbing and cannibalism into the film it was prime fodder for the growing war on film classification, which ended up in it being banned in the UK for 25 years. The film was made on a budget of around $140,000 the film grossed around $100m worldwide and became a cult classic as the years went on, ...
...quality. Luckily The Texas Chainsaw Massacre doesn’t fall into the common trap. Ironically though the gore is minimal. There is very little violence actually seen in the film, the violence is implied rather than shown, which makes it that bit better than it trying to be another gore-fest horror film because you can use your imagination. There is more violence in Scream than there is in this film. The film follows a group of 5 unlucky teenagers ...

3rdRockSatan 07.06.2001 · Read full review
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Warning: This opinion describes the film in graphic and accurate detail. If you are easily disturbed, or havent seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre yet and want the chance to see it for yourself, then I recommend that you don't read this. First released in 1974, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is centred upon the events that lead to the death of five teenagers one summer afternoon. Although the events in the film are not based entirely on real life occurences, ...
...Ed Gein. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is shocking and horrific from start to finish, and is a full-frontal assault on the human mind. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one of Tobe Hoopers first films, and was to be his most influential. Hoopers production budget for the film was as he describes himself 'pitiful', thus the majority of the cast were locals with little or no previous acting experience. In fact the filming of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ...

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The Texas chainsaw massacre is a hugely underrated film; it has a style and charisma that many horror films fall short of. The film is a very standard horror film in that it begins with a horrific visual, continues to do all the usual in depth characterisations and then goes on to do as the title implies. The film isn’t a high blown Hollywood blockbuster; it has more of an affinity with the more independent style of direction. Chainsaw massacre ...
...recognition to its history. The film is thoroughly unapproachable, to get into the story is one of its many challenges. The characters are unlikeable and have no basis for an audience to relate to. This rich blend of non-standard Hollywood production, serves to extenuate the production as a cult piece. This is what I would class as a pure film, there aren’t any morals, there are no hidden meanings and political correctness is ignored; what ...

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...this film, I heard all the hype about it and the fact that it was banned in some countries made me want to try it out, so I did! This film was produced on a very low budget and therefore the acting is not brilliant and there are not any famous people in it but I think that is good in some ways as it ables you to concentrate more on the story then to think about what current film you have seen the actors before. I was satisfied with the acting however. ...
...it does get straight to the plot immediately. It begins with a group of young college students out for a good time in a very isolated village where within the first ten minutes into the film they happen to pick up a hitchhiker, something that they would have regretted if they were still alive. Just then we begin to realise the horror about to begin and what the film is about, the hitch hiker displays a thirst for blood and is a little mental. After ...

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...then it was re-released at the flicks and off I went to see it. Oh. My. God. The plot is thus. A group of teenagers are going to stay in some house they get for the weekend, somewhere in Texas. On the way they pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be rather strange and they quickly get rid of him and think no more of it. Upon reaching the house some of the kids look about. One couple wander over to a nearby house and have a look inside, from out ...
...the group being picked off one by one… Turns out the house belongs to a guy and his two sons (leatherface and the hitchhiker) and they like to eat people! Also present is Grandpa….but he’s a bit too old and dead to join in the fun. Near the end of the film Marilyn Burns’ character is the only one still about. She is captured and forced to sit at the table while the crazies eat ‘dinner’. She loses the pot and ...

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...1974. It was submitted to the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) for release in this country. They watched the movie and placed a ban upon the film. It was not to be shown. Now, nearly 25 years after its release the BBFC have decided to allow the film to be released with a full '18' certificate and released uncut. Although it doesn't have a general release. My local flea pit was showing it one Saturday night and we decided to take advantage. ...
...wasn't bad enough some of the human remains that were exhumed have been positioned into grotesque statues. Apart from the local population that have turned up to view the proceedings, there are an extra five teenagers. They have come from out of town, we never find out where from though. The group consists of two girls and three guys, one of which is in a wheelchair. One of the girls grandfather is buried in this cemetery and they have come to find ...

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...implied……. You’re through to the second paragraph so you must be intrigued. Where can I start?? This is another one of those B grade, banned for being too violent, movies that actually has a lot more beneath the surface than most might think. It was also the launching point for the career of Tobe Hooper, who later directed Poltergeist, Salem’s Lot, and a hell of a lot of other classy horror films. The plot goes roughly like ...
...five teenagers’ day in the country. They set off determined to ensure that a grandfather’s body is still safe after a series of grave robbings in the area; and also to go see an old house that their father owns (the family homestead – now quite rundown). Along the way they pickup a crazy hitchhiker who loses it in the van, find a gas station with no gas, and end up spending the day at the house. This is when they discover the ghastly ...

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Quite simply, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the best, most effective (by which I mean scary) horror films ever made. While on work-experience at the British Board of Film Classification a couple of years ago, I was even told as much by one of the projectionists! Let us thank those high and mighty beings for finally allowing the rest of us plebs to watch it legally. The plot is minimal: five teens drive around America's Deep South, revisiting ...
...up cutting himself before doing the same to one of them. Having kicked him out, they go in search of gasoline and chance upon a family of human monsters who dispatch them one by one. Doesn't sound like much but, trust me, it's great. What really sets this film apart is the fact that, like The Blair Witch Project, most of the violence is left to the viewer's imagination. People who have seen the film tend to believe that they have 'seen' more gore ...

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THIS OP WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FILM, IS IT REAL? Look and find out. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the scariest films I have ever seen. Even though it was made about 20 years ago Tobe-Hoopers original vision is still shocking and scaring everyone who watches it. For those of you who dont know what its all about, basically it is a 'true' story of a group of 6 teenagers on a afternoon drive through the American countryside. The opening ...
...courpses and this sets the scene for the whole film. What happens to these teenagers is shocking, discusting and downright sick. The whole of the film is shot to make the viewer feel uneasy, the film is grainy with sharp contrasts between light and dark. The whole film is shot in such a way that makes the viewer feel hot and sweaty and this enhances the horrror of the movie. BUT, people keep asking me. Was this thing real? As is advertised on the ...

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...banned, but it wasn't for the actual scariness of the movie. It was more to do with the complete lack of plot, morlity or punishment of the crimes commited that caused it to be censored. By today's standards the level of violence illustrated here is still quite horrifying, but only through its gritty almost documentarylike portrayal. However, despite an intriguing opening scene where a grisly work of 'art' has been created in a cemetary, overlaid ...
...film has little to offer the modern audience. To be honest, I found much of the goings on highly annoying through the extremely bad acting and soem of the most annoying characters ever to be commited to celluloid. the guy in the wheelchair is so bad that you wish he would die soon - like 30 seconds after the is introduced. However, perhaps the most annoying part is the closing sequence which has a seemingly neverending chase between the chainsaw ...

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...to close my eyes when the “I’m going to kill you” music starts playing. But my sister wanted to watch it so she dragged me to the cinema. I haven’t seen the original, this was the updated version. I asked a friend who had already seen it what it was like, he told me it was a pile of crap, so that’s what I expected. It starts off telling you how it’s a true story, and its remake of events that occurred in 1973 I ...
...and kills herself. Now all the fun starts. So they go to this very small town which consists of like no more then 10 weird people, to look for a sheriff to report the suicide to, slowly people start to go missing, and a man with a chainsaw starts running after people. The twisted thing is all the town are in on this game, theirs no one to help them, its all one big trap, and even the sheriff is scary. Slowly people start dieing, in different ways, ...

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