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Summary: the scriest movie ever
Review: ive never benn scared of a movie in my life but this movies so disturbing its sick very powerful horribly scary a true masterpiece
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Summary: The SCARIEST slasher film.
Review: The granddaddy of all splatter films. Five teenagers driving through rural Texas stumble onto an old farmhouse which turns out to be inhabited by a ghoulish family of mass murderers. Chainsaws and meat hooks are the tools of these white trash psycho-killers' trade -- they decorate their home with human bones, skin and other gruesome relics, supplementing the body count with corpses from the local graveyard when fresh victims are scarce. It looks like curtains for certain for the teen travellers trapped inside this house of horrors -- unless one scantily-clad female can elude the powertools and survive the night of terror intact.
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Summary: A great one!
Review: With its title The Texas Chain Saw Massacre references the murder weapon. Most slasher weapons retain some efficiency, and each has blade. The chain saw, by and far, is the least efficient, and suggests the film's exploitative content; the murders therein are expected to be gruesome and bloody. Like Halloween, however, much of what is seen is imagined. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a slasher film because of the paranoia it invokes, its relentless and increasing sense of dread. The victims are all teenagers, and the killer is appropriately hostile and disturbed - however, this film offers no characterizing background for the killer. The film is based on the crimes of Ed Gein, as is Psycho, though neither film is an accurate depiction of the serial killer; both films merely borrow details. Chain Saw's iconic killer Leatherface wears a mask of human flesh, similar to finds that Gein wore the skins of the women he killed. It is one that must be seen in the dark!
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Summary: All I can say is wow!
Review: What more can be said about such spot-on Americana? A relentless assault on its viewers that crosses the splatter movie with lowbrow redneck comedy, Texas Chain Saw is as much an experimental film as an endurance test, terrorizing both its characters and its audience at length. Bolstering an expressionist exploration of the concept of "normalcy" as it applies to the American family, many of the most repulsive moments in Tobe Hooper's first horror film are implicit, rather than graphic. In fact, the most explicit violence of this film is perpetrated on the soundtrack, where the titular implement of destruction wails endlessly. Few films so truly disturbing ever had such a grip on the popular imagination.
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Summary: Shure it's old, but it's good.
Review: After hearing about a slew of recent graveyard robberies and desecrations, a vanload of teens travel to the graveyard where their grandparents are buried, just to make sure that the family plot has not been disturbed. The group includes two scantily-clad hot chicks, their dorky bell-bottoms wearing boyfriends (God bless the 70's), and the wheelchair-bound fat-...brother of one of the hot chicks, who is obviously there for comic relief.On their way back from the graveyard, they pick up some whacked-out hitchiker who rambles on about killing cows with a sledgehammer to the head, cuts the fat kid on the arm, and then runs away. Hmmm, must be that Texas heat. The van full of victims then stops at a gas station, only to discover that the tanks are dry and the truck won't be there until later in the day. In order to pass the time, the fat kid suggest that they drive to a nearby abandoned house that he used to live in, which supposedly has a swimming hole out back. What he neglects to mention is the family of redneck psycho cannibals who live in the next house over. Let the killing begin! The first act, while uneven, provides a good setup for the carnage-filled second act. As unsettling as it is to see Leatherface jump out and bash someone over the head with a mallet, the real star is the house itself, and the bizarre discoveries our human cattle make inside, right before they get a dose of Texas psycho hospitality. The house is creepy on the scale of Norman Bates' Victorian or Rustin Parr's cabin, and Hooper's slow but steady revelation of room by room really works to sell the film's atmosphere. No this isn't gory! There is barely even a drop of blood in this entire movie. So don't expect a cheezy slasher flick with nude chicks, and lots of blood. This is an effective little horror film that I think is far better than any other slasher film in exestence.
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Summary: This is HORROR!
Review: The most purely horrifying horror movie ever made. A quarter of a century on, power-tools may have been overused blunting the sheer gall of using a title as up-front as this, but Tobe Hooper's sick, inventive little film remains as disturbing, suspenseful and shattering as the day it first saw the light of a drive-in screen. From the first images - a corpse wired to a grave, sunspots, a dead armadillo in the road - the film goes all out to show you the uncomfortable. The horror scenes are staged with unforgettable force, using the soundtrack as much as the (oddly restrained) visuals to batter you senseless, but Hooper and his collaborators, especially art director Bob Burns, fill the film with unsettling details that register on the corner of the eye. The horrror house, where human and animal bones are used in the furniture and a fat chicken is cooped in a canary cage, is a truly nightmarish locale, and the four maniacs each have unpleasant but credible tics. Not as Scary as The Exorcist, but this is an effective chiller none the less. See this before the re-make.
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Summary: Sick, Twisted, Great Movie!
Review: When I first saw this movie, I was expecting a few kids running around in the texas woods being killed by a guy in a mask using a chainsaw.... boy was I wrong! In this movie there is a whole family of phycos. A great 70's slasher/horror film.
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Summary: Not THAT good
Review: People RAVE over this movie, but come on people, be honest. It's average. It IS NOT scary....the special effects are very dated considering the budget and time this was made. It IS a classic and it will always hold a special place in the field of horror. But there isn't anything so incredibly special about this movie that is is "The scariest movie of all time". Parts of it are FUNNY as hell because it is so poorly done. The makeup is dreadful, the acting is even worse and some of the scenes would make me laugh until I spit milk out of my nose! But as I said, it has it's place and is a classic..but NEVER think this is the greatest horror movie of all time. I would easily put The Exorcist and Halloween before this.
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Summary: Extreem assault on the senses
Review: This film is a low-budget masterpiece. On its face, its a simple retelling of Homer's Odyssey with Odysseus recast as Sally Hardesty, who embarks on a journey with her crew to verify the sanctity of her grandfather's final resting place after reports of ghoulish desecration hit the news. Sally and her crew are lost the moment the pick up a hitchhiker, who replaces the Siren. Then they stop at Cerce's gas station where they are further delayed by the Old Man/Cerce who tells them he has no gas but offers them barbecue, a clear reference to the pigs Odysseus' men where turned into. Instead of waiting for the gas delivery, Sally and her crew go to visit her ancestral home. Two of her crew decide to go for a swim in the old watering hole but when they find the hole has dried up, they stumble upon Cyclops' lair where they embark on a doomed mission to trade a guitar for the much needed gasoline. This is really where the movie kicks into high gear, as one by one Sally's crew is disposed of by Leatherface/Cyclops. I first saw this movie on VHS in the '80's, after first seeing TCM 2, and I think I must have seen a copy that was cut to shreds because this movie is way better now then I remember it being back then. There isn't as much gore as one would expect, but the ultra-violence really ratchets up the old adrenaline. The movie on the DVD looks great and its loaded with deleted scenes, bloopers, script excerpts, commentary, etc. etc. The one thing that would have really made this a five star package is if it had been bundled with the 1988 documentary. As it is, I would rate both the film and the DVD 4.5 stars each.
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Summary: A Great Edition For A Horrible Movie
Review: I'm a B-movie fan, that's why I bought this DVD, because I felt like Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a must... But I still think this movie is [bad], unlike B-movies like Evil Dead that came after... This movie inspired many others, and that's why I think you still must watch it...
The DVD is pretty fine... Trailers,TV Trailers, sequel trailers, deleted scenes, stills and almost everything a fan could ask... I'd give 1/5 stars for the movie and 3/5 stars for the edition. The menus are interactive, actually, the main menu is really great...
So, for you all TCM-fans, this DVD is a total must have... For us, B-movie fans... it's, atleast, worth a rent... A great edition, full of extras (image and sound are so-so). Worth checking out. The bad grade is about the movie, not about the edition..
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