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Summary: The Texas Chainsaw Massacare(1974)
Review: This movie is an outraegous film! It is very scary! I was so scared when I first saw it! Some of it is realy gross!!!! You get to see the guy kill them! He cuts them like he's killing a pig, and trying to get meet out of it!!!!!!! I would rate this movie M for Mature! IT IS GOOOOOOOOOOOOORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: A trip into insanity.
Review: This gritty little movie is truly the landmark of 70s horror everybody says it is. Working with a next to no budget, director Tobe Hooper, co-writer Kim Henkel, and photographer Daniel Pearl manage to capture on film true insanity at its most blood curdling. Sally Hardesty, her invalid brother Franklin, and a group friends travel to the small town of Newt, Texas to see if a relative's grave was the victim of a desecration (some one had dug up and played with the bodies - ala Ed Gein). Low on gas, they stop at a small filling station, which is out of gas. The group decide to wait at the ruins of an old family home...but the neighbors are hiding a horrifying secret and one by one Sally's friends discover and fall victim to it, until only Sally remains. Will she survive, and what will be left of her? Considering what little they had to work with, the movie is a technical marvel. One that still packs a punch today...despite being sequelized and ripped off almost as many times as John Carpenter's Halloween has been. While the movie is not for everybody (and I'm in a very small minority that thinks the first sequel is in some ways better than this), I do think that it is an essential for genre fans. Highly recommended.
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Summary: My favorite movie, no question
Review: I'm gonna try to tell you what all the other reviewers did not tell you.This has to be the greatest horror movie of all time. I'm a huge fan of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" series. But none of its sequels match up to the original's sheer greatness. About the movie: Ok, let me start off first with the extremely simple plot: there isn't one, unless you call kids riding in an old van and then running into my favorite psychos a plot. The main man here mostly is Leatherface, which holds in his hand a deadly chainsaw. Watch the movie and you will see exactly what "deadly" means. His role is to cut up his intruders. The way the film is shot is awesome. I wish all horror films were shot this way. The picture is very grainy, and that makes it better. You pretty much have to be a fan of violence, or at least be a fan of horror movies to really appreciate just how great this movie really is. The brutality level is high, the gore level is lower than a depressed dead woman, and gore-hounds and weak-hearted people can stay far away from this movie. For this movie to really scare you, you must go in with the right mood. I really believe in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I believe most everything on this movie really did happen.
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Summary: Texas chainsaw massarce, the scariest movie of all time
Review: When I first heard about the Texas chainsaw Massarce in the U.K, rumours were spreading that it was based on a true story.Personally at that time I thaught it wasnt. Alot of people who i knew at that time wanted to watch it in the cinema, but they couldnt because it was banned by the BBFC.
So i decided to purchase the imported copy on VHS of this bizzare movie. I under-estimated this movie before i watched it because the actual phsyco-killer looked silly with his curly hair and a silly mask. After watching this movie with my mates, i was stunned the way this leather face character was killing these group of helpless kids with his chainsaw. I felt disturbed and still do.I had nightmares for a week. After watching that, i never ever wanted to visit Texas or any other local cities,in a matter of fact, i rather meet Jack the ripper in London then meet Leatherface. My personal opinion is that this movie still should be banned. Make your wise decision ,remember, you have been warned.
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Summary: You just don't understand
Review: All of you dissing this movie, go watch your Freddy VS Jason. This movie was shot on a very low budget. They didn't have the money to film a big high tech camera angles..this movie is suppose to be about sheer terror, and it does a good job. The reality of driving through Texas and meeting up with the brutality these kids met is unthinkable. Oh yeah, the "based on a true story"...that's the worst pickup line for a movie ever. Ed Gein and the Sawyer family are so different...
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Summary: Amazingly bad!
Review: (There may be some spoilers here so beware.) Honestly, I thought it was a joke. I really didn't think this was seriously the movie everyone raved about. It's TERRIBLE! I mean it's really, REALLY bad. How on earth ANYBODY could enjoy this film is far beyond my vast, vast, incredibly vast understanding. It so bad you cannot even laugh AT it. First of all the film's so called 'gritty' look is, plain and simple, the result of the shoddiest photography this side of 70's [adult films]. The framing is horrifically composed and makes a drunken wedding video look like Laurence of Arabia. The sound is inaudible and the dialogue, worthless as it is, is nothing more than mumbles. As the 'story' develops so does the incomprehension. Mid-way through you'll tell yourself 'This cannot become anymore senseless.' Well it does. By the end you'll be completely lost and then...it's over. Just like that. I was assuming there was half an hour left but it just ends without resolving anything or giving us the payoff we deserve. What a rip-off! There is also ZERO suspense. Characters are killed almost right away leaving no room for excitement. Plus there is only ONE massacre with a chainsaw and you don't even see anything and it mostly occurs off camera. The final chase with the one character that actually gets some interaction with the bad guy is obviously the best bit of the movie but by this point I just wanted it to be over. I've no idea why so many people say this is a great movie or call it 'horror with a dark comic edge'. It's nothing of the sort. It's an embarrassingly amateur schlockfest that Ed Wood himself would disown. Check out the 2003 remake which is a zillion times the movie this dreadful nonsense is. Do not come within a mile of this! You have been warned.
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Summary: Cutting Edge Horror
Review: When I was in my early 20s I saw two films during one weekend both of which had a deep impact for totally different reasons. The first Blues Brothers movie, which changed my outlook on music and life in general - and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Now I've seen just about every scary movie there is none have had the impact of Tobe Hooper's debut classic from 1974. I saw the Hills Have Eyes in 1977. THAT scared the bejeezus out of me I don't mind telling you. But I was only 14. Nothing however, could prepare me for Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I dwell on this because it raises an interesting question: when does a Horror movie cross the line from entertainment to real fear. People like to dive behind the sofa and scream in their cinema seats, but when a film can cause - in the short-term - real horror, and in the long-term, nightmares, has Mr. Tobe Hooper maybe done his job a little too well? The Exorcist - another genuinely terrifying film - manages to stay inside "But-It's-Only-a-Movie" territory. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is like watching genuine holiday footage of a vacation that goes horribly pair-shaped. The low-budget technology actually enhances the horror element. Also the reassuring presence of screen stars like George Clooney or Kevin Bacon is conspicuously absent. I would recommend that nobody under the age of 46 watches this without parental guidance. Texas Chainsaw Massacre makes Natural Born Killers look like Muppet Show. Probably, one of the most unpleasant films ever made. I still can't decide whether that's a compliment or not. I wonder what Quentin Tarantino has to say about this.
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Summary: The Texas Chainsaw massacre
Review: This has got to be the scariest movie in the world. I mean nothing can top this movie. Even when the movie begins the monolouge is so creepy. As it started out as a nice sunday afternoon drive and then became a nightmare of the mad and macob. As they witnessed the most bizarre crimes in the ANALS of america history. The Texas Chainsaw massacre.
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Summary: One of the Best Horror Movies ever, Top 5 for me!
Review: I cant stress enough that this movie is absolutly nauseating. It made me literaly sick to my stomach. This movie conveys a sense of sloppiness, not in its making; but how you would feel if you were there. And this masterpiece does this better than most, bring you into the world that was created to scare the be-jesus out of you! It has a "gritty" and "documentery" feel to it, and if thats not your thing, trust me you probably wont even notice it, the movie is just that good... Five teens are driving through Texas when they happen to stubble on a Hitchhiker. Soon discovering that not everything is copasetic they toss the looney and get deeper and deeper into the grasslands and woodlands of Texas. What happenned next to them, they never expected....they were picked off, chopped off, sawed off, hooked up, and you'll throw up! Great direction, fabulous acting by the crazy family, and sole survivor, spectacular setting. i just cant say enough about this movie, and its realy not even my favorite! DONT watch this movie ALONE! DONT watch this movie at NIGHT in the DARK! and most of all dont eat before watching this movie.....ENJOY!
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Summary: uneven
Review: when i first watched this i thought it was pretty good but after a third viewing it stinks. end of story.
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