The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
March 29th 2011 23:03
Director: Tobe Hooper
Screenplay: Tobe Hooper & Kim Henkel (originally script titles: Leatherface, then Headcheese)
Production: USA
Year: 1974
Sub-genre tags: serial killers, cannibalism, inspired by real events
Tagline: Who will survive and what will be left of them?
Logline: On route to a cemetery five teenagers fall prey to a depraved and murderous family of cannibals.
Core cast: Marilyn Burns (Sally), Edwin Neal (Hitchhiker), Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface), Jim Siedow (Old Man), Paul A. Partain (Franklin)
Memorable moment: Leatherface’s sudden first appearance; killing his victim with a couple of blows to the head with a sledgehammer, dragging his body out of sight, and then violently sliding a metal door shut, all in a matter of seconds.
Curious Fact: Tobe Hopper intended to get a PG rating, by keeping violence moderate and language mild, but despite cutting and repeated submissions, the MPAA insisted on an R rating for the disturbing effectiveness of what is onscreen and what is implied off-screen.
Intensity levels:
Blood & gore: low
Fear factor and/or frights: high
Likelihood of bad dreams (disturbing content): high
Horrorphile’s two cents: A landmark movie, and it still packs a visceral, emotional wallop. No horror movie up to that point had captured and exploited such realism (which verges on the surreal). The tone and atmosphere were authentic in their grim darkness.
Click here to read Horrorphile's movie review.
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