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Summary: A great slasher movie
Review: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a great movie. In this movie you won't see blood on the person that is attacked. You'll just see the blood on the chainsaw, or the meat hook etc. I don't think this Movie should be R, it should be M or at the most MA. You should let your kids watch it. It's not really a incredibly bloody movie. It's not scary(despite the fact that it was ranked the ninth scariest movie of all time). One thing that is good is that the Murderer just shows up! There's no music to indicate that it's going to happen(most of the time). This Movie doesn't have a great deal of action Example: A battle between the Murderer and one of the teenagers. It's still a good Movie though. Also when the Movie ends it sort of just... ends. I mean it just goes black and the credits start rolling. After it ends you might go "That's it?" But that's no reason to not buy it! The acting's pretty good too. The Chainsaw isn't used as much as I thought it would be, but it is used a bit. Though only twice there is someone being chased by The Murder(Leatherface is his name) while he has the chainsaw. It is a cheap movie(cheap as in low budget) But it's still brillant! The acting pretty good. Most of the actors are just high school students who have this as there only film credit. This Movie is based on a real life occurence involving grave robbing and a Man who Murdered people and wore a mask made out of human flesh. Ed Gein was the real life Cannibels name. Despite what the posters said, it really isn't based on a true story. Just on what Ed Gein did.All in all buy this Movie. It's really a 10 out of 5 stars!
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Summary: Texas Chainsaw massacre very original and terrifing
Review: I decided to rent then film after watching the new theatrical release. The movie is filmed in a way that an indie film would be made. Although the film has its faults it is pretty scary. The opening sequence involving the photos of various bones and body parts is disturbing. I liked the way the pictures flashed with the sound of a classic camera ringing off as each one is shown. You don't really learn much about the characters in the film which is one of the negatives. Most of the kids in the van are very annoying and I dimesional. The crazy man that is picked up by the kids on there way to the cemetary in the biggining is an interesting character. I thought the actors portrail of a pychotic was pretty accurate and his performance is sometimes painful to watch. The guy in the wheelchair was very annoying to me so much that I found myself wishing him to die early on in the film. Most of the filming is good in the bigging of the film. One scene that stick out to me is the scene of the kids arriving at the old house in there van. The house is very dark and scary(it looks almost haunted. As the film progresses and the sun goes down some of the scene become hard to see. This has a positive and negative effect. In some respects it makes the film spooker in others I wondered what was going on. In particular some of the scenes inside the old house the kids first visit are filmed in almost complete darkeness. Maybe by watching the DVD version I will see some improvement. A positive of the film is the way the pace starts off slow then speeds up dramatically until the end. From the first scene that leatherface is shown the movie takes off and does not let up until the rolling of the credits. I found the scenes at the dinner table to be quit disturbing and enjoyed the way the closeups or done on the girls face when she is being frightened. The end of the movie is very intense and we are left to think that even though the girl survives she will be scared for life. I would recommend this movie to any horror fan.
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Summary: Great great film
Review: This really is just a classic film. It really bugs me when I see the idiots who have reviewed it and say that the remake is better than the original. The remake is just another formulaic, ten-a-penny slasher - it might have been passably good if there had never been an original TCM, but there is, so it wasn't. Throughout the original, I sat rigid in my chair from the opening scenes right through to the final horrifying escape scene. That last is one of the most memorable scenes in any film, thanks to that sunset chainsaw shot, and even though she escapes, it still leaves you feeling like there's absolutely no hope for her. Devastating.
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Summary: One of the top ten best horror films ever
Review: Okay, for everyone who is wondering if this is based on a true story, here's the scoop: Back in the 1950's there lived a man named Ed Gein who had a mother fixation. His mother died of cancer or a stroke, and because Ed had so completely worshipped his mother, after she was buried he never went into his mother's bedroom or any of the other upstairs rooms again. He spent the rest of his life living in the kitchen and one other room next to the kitchen. In the meantime, Ed Gein became schizophrenic and began robbing graves at the local cemetery near his house. He also began luring women back to his house and killing them. Some of the women he would cut up and save the body parts. Other women he would literally remove the skin from their bodies and make things such as lampshades, chair coverings, and masks out of. He would wear these human skin masks. He even went so far as to make a suit out of the skin of one of his female victims and wear it. You see, Ed Gein was fascinated by what it would be like to be a woman, and he was also fascinated by transexuals.When the police raided Ed's house, they found the body of his last victim, Bernice Worden, hanging upside down in his garage, gutted like a deer and her head was decapitated. They found bags of body parts, a severed head in the fridge, skulls with the tops sawed off and used for "bowls", and all kinds of creepy stuff. After much psychological testing it was discovered that Ed had a split personality and that he had no memory of many of the killings he committed. He was found criminally insane and spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital, where he died of natural causes. Various elements of Ed's life and his personality went into the creation of the Leatherface character. The "family" didn't exist in real life. Even Ed's real family wasn't that crazy. In reality, Ed's mom was a dominant, very religious mother who thought all women were evil temptations for her boys and thus must be avoided. She was a cruel woman who belittled her mild-mannered husband. Her husband died, and Ed had one older brother who died in a fire, but it was suspicious because Ed was able to lead the cops to the exact spot his brother was at, which leads many to suspect he murdered his brother. The movie Pyscho is also based on elements of Ed Gein's life, especially the mother fixation part and the split personalitiy part where he would dress as his mother and take on her voice and personality. The version of the Texas Chainsaw dvd i have is the Pioneer version and it's truely top-notch. The picture quality is amazing, and watching it i found it hard to believe i was watching a movie filmed in the early 70s. They did a good job of making all the night scenes very clear. Watching this movie on vhs is not even worth your time, as all of the night scenes will be so dark you won't be able to see a thing. The sound on the dvd is crisp and clear and there are a ton of great extras. The director's commentary is amazing and you'll learn a lot of great trivia facts and information on what it was like to make this movie. This commentary is really one of the best next to Evil Dead and Mother's Day. I haven't heard the commentary of The Exorcist or The Thing yet, but i'm hoping they are just as good. As for the movie itself, Texas Chainsaw is well-done. The very first time i saw it was at a midnight sçreening when i was only in my early 20s and i have to admit i didn't like it. I thought the movie was way too short, the ending was unfinished, and there were so many parts of it i hated. But as the years went by, i watched the movie again and again and began to actually give this movie a chance and to understand more about it. Today, this movie is among one of my favorite horror movies of all time. It's more of a psychological headgame type of scare, more than an all out gorefest. Actually there is very minimal gore shown by today's jaded moviegoing standards. The emphasis is more on the violence and the terror and atmosphere, at which this movie succeeds. And the grainy, poor picture quality of the film gives a documentary feel to the film that adds to it. Texas Chainsaw is the one that started many of today's slasher movies. There have been many horror movies over the years that borrowed elements of this movie. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a groundbreaking movie for its time and it paved the way for many of today's movies. Anyone who says this movie sucks is not a TRUE horror movie fan. For those of us who DO know about the life and times of Ed Gein, this movie really IS a great horror movie. Five stars for the movie and five stars for the dvd and all the extras. This is for the Pioneer edition of the dvd.
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Summary: Review by McDougal
Review: I just don't understand how you can base the pace of a movie made in the early 70s with the pace of horror movies made in recent years. In your review you said, "I just can't understand it". I think that about sums it up. No offense...I'm not trying to be mean or rude but I just don't understand how you can compare the way that the scenes play out when, at that time, there were no other movies like it. There are no set standards when making a movie. It's movies like this that go the opposite way that you expect it to go that stand out and become classics.
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Summary: here that chainsaw rev
Review: powerful, horrific and truly a masterpiece of terrifying cinema. this one follows five kids who find a place and then things start to, well, you know, rev up. there's this sick family of twisted and demented people, including LETHERFACE. dont consider this for all tastes because some people might be so frightened and scared to death. this is based on factual events. Gunner Hansen as Letherface is so up in your face with his chainsaw, your like, shpit man. Tobe Hooper directs a true masterpiece. I dont care, I thought it was very well brought to the screen and done. dont get hooked
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Summary: Scary movie of ALL time?
Review: I hardly think so. However, it's a fun watch. If you don't mind retarded lines and cheesy villians. I did enjoy the movie though. I guess.. I spent nearly $20 on the Dvd so I better like it.
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Summary: It's ok...but it could have been a lot BETTER
Review: This is my second review on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 version, only because my last review for this movie seems to be making people frustrated. I have watched it a few more times I think 5 times in total, and each time it gets better, but I just can't understand it. It starts off slow, and I don't understand what the rotting person on the tombstone means, then we come into the story which seems to drag on for the first half hour then it gets exciting when the first kill happens and we see Leatherface. And I am expecting to have to mood be clam for 10 minutes and here comes another kill...ok Now we can sit back and take a breather but no, the third kill. Ok 2 people are left, and then the fourth victim is offed and we have Sally who only wants to run around for 45 minutes and she never dies. Why couln't the other people think like her and try to live longer? The movie is too fast paced and moves too quickly. ONly 83 minutes and 10 of those minutes are opening credits and all that so 73 minutes of a movie that doesn't do much for anyone except make you leave with a sick feeling in your stomch. I wuld give it 2 and 1/2 stars but nothing higher! It doesn't deserve it I think! Hooper tried his best and it was...ok, but not the greatest and I don't know why this was such a successful movie!? It does have it's fair share of scares but not enough of them. The music is good and the angles at which some of the scenes are shot are very interesting! But it really shows that this was a low budget movie and it was ( 100,000$ ) but you could have taken out the sound where we hear the camera rolling and stuff like that. And like I said the music was good but it wasn't played at the right times. Like Sally was running through the forrest and half way through, the music starts playing. It could have been a lot better and you can hate me for saying that. Hooper could have made the movie longer if he went inot detail about the characters. I had no idea that Sally and the guy in the wheelchair were brother and sister until i read it in a review just now, and what was some of their names?? The 2nd and 3rd person to get killed, and the hitch-hiker and the dad. This movie could have easily been better with some more detail. It is still an ok movie, but not hte classic I think many people are portraying it to be!
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Summary: A True Classic Horror Film!
Review: This movie is by far the best horror movie out there! It doesn't need the blood, guts, and gore that many people are looking for in today's movies. This one leaves it up to your imagination as to what all is going on and how bad it really is. Even though you don't see much of the meat hook scene or Franklin's demise, your imagination fills it in for you, and leaves you flinching and imagining only the worse. With the insanity of the family and some disturbing moments, this film is a very well crafted and sadistic film that will for sure go down in history as "The Horror Movie That Started it All." As someone has once quoted. This is a must see for any diehard horror fan that wants to escape all of the garbage that is being made today!
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Summary: Grim but good horror
Review: Some movies you see make you feel good about life and optimistic about how things are going. You leave such films with a song in your heart and a smile on your face. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is not one of those movies. That is not to say it is a bad movie - in fact, it is pretty good - but it is not a happy movie. The story itself is rather simple. In rural Texas, a group of young adults encounter a demented family and are killed off one by one. Unlike their cinematic descendants such as Jason or Freddy Kreuger, who are in their own way the heroes of their movies, the villains in this film are wholly unpleasant...dirty, brutal, twisted and without anything more than an animalistic sense of cleverness. The protagonists, while generally sympathetic, are also rather bland. The only one with a real personality is the wheelchair-bound brother of the main character, and he is not very likable. In this way, they are not unlike most slasher movie victims. I actually began to think of the movie as a sinister version of a Scooby Doo mystery with the quintet stumbling into a crime story from which most will not emerge. Although often hard to watch because of its dark subject matter, this movie is actually rather bloodless and the worst of the violence is shot at angles or lighting that spares the viewer. The low-budget nature of the movie helps the general creepiness, similar to the (also very good) Night of the Living Dead. This is not a perfect movie, and it is definitely not for many people's tastes, but for a slasher flick, it is entertaining and in its own way, a little bit of a classic.
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