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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. There they are attacked by a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
21 August 1913, Austin, Texas, USA
12 June 1920, Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
22 July 1948, Minnesota, USA
30 November 1950, San Antonio, Texas, USA
4 March 1947, Reykjavik, Iceland
25 November 1947, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
7 May 1949, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
18 August 1951, Houston, Texas, USA
12 July 1945, Houston, Texas, USA
22 November 1946, Austin, Texas, USA
14 August 1946, Houston, Texas, USA
23 July 1942, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
October 20, 2014
A genuine classic of the genre, a punishing, unrelenting nightmare that never allows viewers even a moment of sanity or security.October 05, 2014
Hooper and his art director Bob Burns conjured up a picture of hell in rural America...absolutely essential for fans of the horror genre.April 26, 2015
No matter how many filmmakers have attempted to recreate the all-out insanity of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," very few have even come close.October 20, 2014
Tobe Hooper's grindhouse masterpiece abounds in snuff ambience and cacophonous traumaOctober 03, 2006
The movie is some kind of weird, off-the-wall achievement. I can't imagine why anyone would want to make a movie like this, and yet it's well-made, well-acted, and all too effective.April 07, 2015
Morally retrograde it may be, but then so are nightmares. The point is that this one, though often crude and raw, really leads the imagination. What also works in its favour is that it doesn't pretend to do anything more than scare the pants off you.October 14, 2014
This abattoir of a movie boasts sledgehammers, meathooks and chainsaws, and the result, though not especially visceral, is noisy, relentless, and about as subtle as having your leg sawed off without anaesthetic.October 28, 2016
Along with Night of the Living Dead and The Last House on the Left, it ushered in the modern age of horror in the 1970s. It is one of the great transgressive American horrors and is still the film upon which Hooper's reputation is built.November 03, 2015
My personal philosophy remains unmoved by skill and prowess when it comes to an idea this drastic. A chainsaw is a cheater's instrument, a device that disrupts all threads of rhythm and psychology.September 19, 2007
Despite the heavy doses of gore in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper's pic is well-made for an exploiter of its type.September 19, 2007
The picture gets to you more through its intensity than its craft, but Hooper does have a talent.