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Summary: this film is one of the all time horror classics!
Review: my review consists of just a few words if you havent seen this movie you might think its old but to think that this acually happened and to put yourself in those teens shoes is terrifing enough for even the most hardcore horror fan!!!!
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Summary: Dont believe the Hype
Review: As has previously been said, this film grip's you with suspense, always threatening to shock, but never actually does. The reputation of this film has gone before it. If you're looking for gore and blood then move along, if it's a minor classsic which you're after, that works on the principles of Hitchcock (albiet with less wit, irony and class) then you've come to the right place.To the chap from Dublin, Ireland. I was mightly impressed with your review. Seriously man, that was some good stuff you put in there.
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Summary: Amazingly disturbing!
Review: It takes a lot for a film to cause me to have a perpetual look of disgust on my face, and this one did it with hardly any blood. This is one of those films that you endure viewing (and I don't mean that in a bad way).
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Summary: All screaming and no content...
Review: I went to see this film also in the IFC in Dublin on its re-release because it had banned for so many years. Basically, Bambi or Snow White are scarier than this film. The only real shock in the whole film or point where the viewer might jump is when the girl is put on the meathook. The first third of the movie is a portrait of chatty teenagers in a van with the girls wearing skimpy T- shirts to keep the T'n A /teenage male audience interested. The middle period of the film, I'll grant to Tobe Hooper, is when he makes a genuine attempt to develop the story and the tension builds. Satisfying. But the final third? For 30-40 minutes, a girl incessantly screaming? A girl being chased by a demonic chainsaw wielder? God forbid the lunatic might catch her, 'cos the film would have to end...When it comes down to it, in analysing what scares an audience, or people in general, we have to find the reason why the audience or people are scared, it's fear. It's not fear of anything, or anybody, but fear itself. We have nothing to fear except fear itself. Once we have conquered that fear, there is no other...That is in the end, what this film comes down to. The only way the film can continue after the first two portions of the film is if the screaming girl *doesn't* get caught. Otherwise, the film has no where to go and nothing to say. Perhaps that is why so many fans of the horror genre like the film. Because in saying nothing, Hooper says everything. I hate to say this, but at the viewing I was at, the audience laughed for most of the film. And that leads me to another point. What this film, I think, has in common with The Exorcist is that it has dated badly. It still has some powerful images, but in a time when audiences are so desensitized to violence because they and their kids see the real thing on the news every night and even during the daytime, violence is not as shocking as it once was. Of course, unless you are the one involved. I applaud the film for, well, taking the audience on a ride. But as for being scared? Maybe back in the 70's, but not now I'm afraid... maybe if you watch all on your own with all the lights out maybe or if you're with friends, tell them not to laugh, however they may feel like it. If you want to be scared...well try lying awake at night and closing your eyes and analyse what we are all here on this planet for and what happens when we die. Because that's the only real fear we are ever going to have and that we always will have...for eternity... and no one knows the answer to that one...
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Summary: Not so gory!
Review: It's really not gory at all!! It's more incredibly terrifying than anything else. This is one of those movies that will leave you trembling and stunned after a late-night viewing. Being a true horror fan, I can definitively state this to be the best ever made. I have shown Texas Chainsaw Massacre to many, many friends... even dates... and they were all just as amazed as I was when I saw it. It is that good! I'm serious! If you want to be totally scared out of your gourd, rent this movie! One caveat though: The first, oh, 10/15 minutes of this movie are rather slow, though still fairly amusing; just give it some time. So, if utter terror is what you are after on your next venture to the video store, hungrily grab this one off the shelf!
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Summary: A Masterpiece of Tension
Review: I had avoided watching this film for many years due to my aversion to gore in films. I was finally convinced by a friend to watch in college and what I saw astounded me. First, let me just say that the gore is at a bare minimum. This film was a triumph of tension over cheap thrills. It was perhaps one of the scariest films I have ever seen, because it was so realistic. I eventually ensnared another friend, who ultimately demanded that the lights be turned on and that midway through we pause the film for him to take a rest.All those that wish to understand how to horrify an audience should study this and The Shining - to truly understand how to get inside an audience's head and remain there long after the credits roll. So many horror films use cheap, unimaginative and unmotivated devices to scare, but never truly creep under your skin to haunt you. As an added bonus, the film also has a deeply, darkly comic approach to the villains, which serves to amuse, and frighten. The victims aren't in on the joke, and that makes their plight all the more hopeless and fright-filled.
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Summary: It Runs In The Family
Review: The begining of this movie is so bad and so slow that i almost thought the movie was going to be just stupid. Then the good parts came and i was stunned. I don't think i've heard so much screaming and seen so much insanity in my life. This movie is wonderful and i loved it so much. I also don't think "leatherface" is the main killer. Look at his entire family. The insanity, blood lust, mental illness, and terror runs in the family. I highly reccomend this movie to horror movie fans.
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Summary: A CHILLING MOVIE
Review: THIS MOVIE GAVE ME NIGHTMARES. THE REASON WHY I GAVE IT 3 STARS, IS BECAUSE THE BEGING WAS VERY VERY SLOW. BUT JUST THE THOUGHT OF THESE SICK PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND THE TEXAS COUNTRY SIDE, WAS JUST TERRIFYING.
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Summary: Romance,Lust,Poetry,Envy,Pride,Leather...and Nixon.
Review: Leatherface wasn't such...uch a bad guy.You know.I ...I mean he only killed those people because it was out of ...lust or something.There was such a passionate pairing of Leatherface and the Chainsaw....like Meg Ryan and Tom Haaaanks kissing in a soppy film,thing.It was really....rea..where was I..oh yeah it was really wild because Leatherface is a metaphore for Nixon...and the chainsaw is the power he has that he will use..to get them tapes back.Maybe..maybe it was just the drugs I was on but I'm sure I saw Jimmi Hendrix in the background in the last secene..yeah it was him..and,and Mr T drove past in the film.Gotta go back to ...tooo bye.
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Summary: The Horror Standard
Review: I have always thought of Chainsaw as the 2001: A Space Odyssey of horror movies. Not to dismiss other horror movies, many of which are really good, but Chainsaw will always be the greatest. The standard by which all other horror movies will be judged. And Leatherface is by far the most horrifying character ever seen in any film.
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