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Summary: Great Horror But More importantly Great Film!
Review: Lets face it horror when done properly is the modern tragedy. The razor thin line that seperates good horror from malicious, sadistic horror is whether one feels empathy with the characters whom suffer the tragic ordeals.
The characters arent incredibly fleshed out but through the documentary style filming and the smalltalk they are emminently human.
The violence in the film is few and far between however what is there is take your breath away shocking.
This is where the excellent direction comes into play, Hooper takes the violence seriously and keeps his focus tight throughout allowing neither the audience or the actors to escape the reality and horror of the situations.
Thats how horror movies should be, when people being murdered becomes either boring, dull or unintentionally funny, this is a great disservce to the audience IMO. As the film dips more into the insane universe of the cannibals it takes on a surreal experience rarely found in American horror.
On balance the film is exploitive, afterall how can a film that revels in violence and murder not be, but the fact that it is possible to empathize with the characters saves it from slipping into the abyss. Still a very shocking film, that no developing person should watch! I cant believe parents let children watch this sort of stuff. P.s. The film was made about in a house in a town outside Austin called Round Rock about 15 minutes from where I live.
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Summary: It's simply "the best horror movie I have ever seen"
Review: Hell...better see it for yourself...:)
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Summary: Don't Eat That!!
Review: Yep, I saw this gem and knew I'd seen a masterpiece. Leatherface is only one of a clan of insane murderers with a family food business. A group of dippy hippy types pick up one of them, who acts so weird, they toss him out! Our fearless heroes end up right next door to the family. Upon investigating the house, death ensues. The first terrifying part comes when one of the girls is in the livingroom. She stumbles in and looks around at the furniture and decor. In a cloud of chicken feathers, she sees things made out of bones, some of them human, and her bulging eyes are unforgettable! This happens AFTER Leatherface has already taken her boyfriend into the back room. You know she's next, but Tobe Hooper makes you wait a while! Not since "Psycho" has tension been used so expertly. I won't give away the rest, just believe the hype! TCM is not all that gorey. It relies more on our own fears and a sense of the unreal instead of beating us over the head with overt splatter. Leatherface is the original masked maniac that spawned the likes of Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers some years later. The last 20-30 minutes of TCM always get me biting my nails to nubs! Don't watch it alone...
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Summary: The second most overrated horror film next to "The Shining".
Review: "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is yet another overrated horror movie. The reason for that is that you don't care about the teenagers who are in it. Especially Sally and her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin. They are so annoying and stupid. As is this movie. If you want a truly great low-budget horror classic, see "Halloween" or "Near Dark" instead.
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Summary: WOW MAMA
Review: HOLD ONTO YOUR SEATS THIS MOVIES VERY VERY VERY SCARY AND ITS EVEN MORE DISTURBING THEN SCARY HORROR BUFFS BE PREPARED
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Summary: The second most overrated horror film next to "The Shining".
Review: This 1974 low-budget horror "classic" is yet another overrated horror film. It may have started the slasher genre, but it's no "Psycho" or "Halloween". Those are the only two slasher films that are actually classics. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is just stupid ... None of the teenagers in this film are ones that you care about. By the last half of the film, I wanted Sally [Marilyn Burns] to be sawed because all she did was scream for a whole hour. The cannibals were more sickening and laugh-inducing than scary. For a better serial-killer film, go for "Silence of the Lambs" and "Psycho" of course. Those films are subtle and truly, deeply scary. "TCM" is over-the-top, grainy, crude, and masochistic.
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Summary: very real very scary
Review: i still have nightmares from this horror movie the movies so real and disturbing its sick very creepy and an amazing ending kinda of funny with the cook and where letherface dresses as a girl in one scene crepyy. a must have for horror buffs barley a crumb of blood is spilled rated R FOR BRIEF VIOLINCE DISTURBING IMAGES EXTREAME TORTURE SEQUENCES AND SOME LANGUAGE.
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Summary: wow
Review: very scary after a very disturbing opening shot the film takes off very creepy scenes the dinner scene one of the most disturbing and sickingley painful scene ever watch alone
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Summary: scariest movie
Review: so freaky disturbing gives me nightmares all the time scary as an adult then a kid
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Summary: so scary
Review: im young and this movies scared me for years i never have gone or looked at any supodley abandod houses very creepy a true horror film.
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