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DVD The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem's Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it's also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it's blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they're held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie's powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style--but it also has a wicked sense of humor (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the '70s, '80s, and '90s). OK, in case you couldn't tell, it's "not for everyone." But as a landmark in the development of the horror/slasher genre, it ranks with Psycho, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. --Jim Emerson
When "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" came out in 1974, it had one purpose and one purpose only, and it succeeded beyond its the expectations set forth by its creators. This movie has an original look, an original script, and a cast to-- literally-- die for.
The movie starts out slow. Real slow. Hardly anybody does this while making films nowadays. Present-day films start off with suspense and action. "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" actually takes you through it step-by-step. A group of friends on a road trip into a rural area of Texas. Each has at least one characteristic that the viewer could relate to. Whether its Franklin and his whiny attitude, or Sally who is portrayed as the all-american girl, it gives you a feel of reality; that it could happen to anyone.
Another horrifying fact about the movie: It's based on a true serial killer (Ed Gein), who did rob graves, skin the flesh of his victims, and hang them as trophies in his house. Sadly to say, there was no real chainsaw massacre, but to think that somebody could be that sick and repulsive and grotesque is a very unsettling thought.
The DVD extras, which include the movie digitally remastered, a blooper reel, production notes, and deleted scenes add to this new version's quality. Five stars for making an original film that lasts and lasts and lasts...
A bit of Psycho ( 1960) and the life of Ed. Gein - with that you have TCM 1974
This is by far the #1 slasher flick out there and IMO the #1 horror to ever be made. The 2000 and something re-make imo is very bad and this movie shouldnt even be attempted to be made unless done almost to the "T" if not this re-makes should never have been made.
A group of young guys and girls go to Texas with the intent of 2 of the kids ( FRankiln and Sally ) wanting to visit there grandfathers grave being that there have been grave robbers stealing corpses, with that a summer afternoon of fun turns into pure terror. They run into a family of cannibals who will kill and eat anything that comes in there path.
This movie does not only attempt to bring terror at night but also during the day, and is just as creepy. The killings while not overly graffic if graffic at all, just to have an idea of what is going on is quit terrifying its self. While they do show the murders just with not graffic gory detail.
You are introduced to Chop Top and the Cook early in the film but dont really find out who they are till the end.
The movie keeps a solid pace and gets going about 35 minutes with the first murder and so on at the one hour mark you get introduced to the whole family and the terror that ies within them and for one girl I dont think would have ever imagined the things that she would see in the house.
Great acting especially by ChopTop ,LeatherFace and the Cook they play the role of someinsane twisted characters and must be given reccomendations for doing so and doing it so perfect.
As for the props house design and everything is excellent as most of the furniture in the house of LeatherFace is made of human bones which is a great addition and quit eerey ( and supposably that is how Ed Geins house was with having some furniture made of human bones )
The Psycho comparison comes from the point that Leatherface keeps his dead Grandmother and half dead Grandfather along with the dead family dog upstairs in the 2nd floor of the house as does A.Perkins in Psycho also as wellas LeatherFace at the end wearing the some old ladies hair and face with that being similar to Perkins as he dresses up as his Mother when killings just doesnt wear the face just the hair.
Now this story was made also based on true life events and those based on serial killer Ed Gein who was a cannibal and serial killer murdering mainly women and not only eating them but wearing the face ,genitals and body skin after killing them and skinning them. Now to make it clear in this flick all that LeatherFace wears is the facial skin of his victims nothing else.In this film I dont know if many noticed but Leather face also wears the faces of three victims one being a regular man face the other a grandmother or elder ladys face and the last a young women you could the difference in all just a hedas up as doing that i feel was great gives you an idea of how many people they must have previousley killed and how twisted a man and family the three of them are.
The Granddaddy of all slasher movies!
(I'm not a kid, don't laugh if you think I'm lying, damn it)
This ISN'T the granddaddy, Bay Of Blood is. This came out the same year as Black Christmas, making them the daddys. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is my third favorite slasher movie, just below A Nightmare On Elm Street and Evil Dead 2. This is not an extremely gory film, and we, the viewers, can only imagine the gore that befell(SPOILER)the four teens that were slaughtered.
(SPOILERS AHEAD!)
The film begins with a fairly young narrator talking about the brutal events of one of the most bizzare crime scenes in history, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.(Really not too much from Leatherface's Chainsaw)The film cuts to five teens in a van. In the front are BF and GF Sally Hardesty with Jerry behind the wheel. In the middle are Kirk and Franklin. In the back is Pam. They pick up a hitchhiker, who says that his family is in to meat. He sits by Pam, who obviously thinks he's a freak. He tells, very detailed, about the gruesome ways of hunting meat. He slashes at his hand and blood doesn't gush out, but there is alarge smear. He takes a polaroid picture of the group and burns it with gunpowder. When they are obviously about to kick him out, he slashes at the crippled Frankin. They kick him out and Hitchhiker Hillbilly Jenkins smears blood on the window. The teens have no idea what to make of this. They are on their way to Sally and Franklin's grandfather's house after a series of grave robbing, but of course, their true intentions are for the couples to make love and hang out. They are needful of gas, but the Old Man(Drayton Sawyer)that works at the gas station says they're out of gas. They get directions to the nearest house, their grandfather's. They have fun and relax, with Franklin Need-To-Die whining the whole time. Kirk and Pam go for a walk and Kirk goes inside a deserted farmhouse. He THINKS it's deserted, anyway. He is watched by Bubba Sawyer/Leatherface and the horrror begins. He is hit with Leatherface's hammer and dragged away. Stupid Pam realizes Hero-Boy Kirk hasn't returned and looks for him. Leatherface has another "customer". He impales her on a meathook and revs up the ol' chainsaw. He goes to the freezer where kirk is and he is slaughtered to bits. Pam eventually dies too. Jerry decides to go look for them and he is killed with a sledgehammer. Leatherface is really tired of his house guests. Franklin and Sally see that everyone's missing, so they search through the woods and sally pushes Franklin's wheelchair. Leatherface shows up and kills Franklin. A huge chase begins through the woods and vines, where Sally runs into old Dayton Sawyer. She asks for help and they go into his truck. They pick up the crazy hitchhiker and they drive to the old hhouse. Sally realizes that Leatherface, Sawyer and Hitchhiker are all brothers. The dinner scene arrives. Their dying Grandpa is about to be eaten by the brothers but they tell him that he can have a taste of Sally's finger. he sucks her blood, dying and Sally escapes. They go after their dinner and Sally runs back to where she was kidnapped. A big truck stopped for her, but hit the Hitchhiker, killing him. The truck driver holds off Leatherface and Sally is rescued. Is her savior just another person in cahoots with the Sawyer family? The viewers must decide. Leatherface does the "chainsaw dance" and the film ends.
This is my third favorite horror movie of all timre and it is action-packed and loaded with suspence. Not too much gore, but it's just scary. Grab some popcorn, a soda or maybe even a Bushmills original whiskey and see this bad boy!
This wild, operatic 1986 sequel to 1974's low-budget horror hit--The Texas Chainsaw Massacre--is an extraordinary film that demonstrates just how far filmmaker Tobe Hooper had grown in the interim between the two movies. (Between the two movies, Hooper directed, among other things, the Spielberg production Poltergeist, the critically admired Lifeforce, and the spooky remake of Invaders from Mars.) In Massacre 2, Hooper enlists Dennis Hopper as a Texas Ranger seeking vengeance against the flesh-eating family that was introduced in the first film. Meanwhile, a radio deejay (Caroline Williams) is kidnapped by the family and brought to their underground lair. The performances are crazed, terrifying, and comic; the chainsaw fights are practically epic; the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dennis Hopper - Caroline Williams Director(s): Tobe Hooper DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Oh Lord how I love a bad horror movie. This is definately one of those "It's so bad, it's good movies". Looks like Leatherface has been adopted by a new family. Grandpa is still hanging around, but this time he's just a corpse. Grandma however, complete with wheelchair and voice microphone hams it up just as well. There is a little girl in the family too, she may look like the girl from the original 'Bad Seed', but she was in another favorite movie of mine Friday the 13th Part 7. She was young Tina who killed her father with her telekinesis powers.
Great kills in this flick, but you gotta see the unrated version to really enjoy this movie. The unedited swinging hammer scene alone is worth the price of admission. But, you get a lot more of the blood and guts too throughout... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ken Foree - Kate Hodge Director(s): Jeff Burr DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The 2003 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre adheres to the pure and simple slasher movie formula: Introduce a gaggle of sexy young people, make vague gestures to distinguish them--Jessica Biel (Summer Catch) wants to get married and doesn't like pot, so she's our moral compass--then start hacking them to pieces one by one. The visual palette includes grimy crucified dolls, fly-specked pig carcasses, body parts floating in murky jars, a tobacco-chewing redneck sheriff, and many slender beams of sunlight cutting through dank, dusty interiors. The camera lovingly photographs Biel's tank-topped bosom and sculpted abs as she's running in terror from a bloated, chainsaw-wielding, human-skin-wearing maniac. This remake lacks the macabre comedy of the original; it's all about... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jessica Biel - Jonathan Tucker - Andrew Bryniarski Director(s): Marcus Nispel DVD Release Date: Released the 30 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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George Romero's 1978 follow-up to his classic Night of the Living Dead is quite terrifying and gory (those zombies do like the taste of living flesh). But in its own way, it is just as comically satiric as the first film in its take on contemporary values. This time, we follow the fortunes of four people who lock themselves inside a shopping mall to get away from the marauding dead and who then immerse themselves in unabashed consumerism, taking what they want from an array of clothing and jewelry shops, making gourmet meals, etc. It is Romero's take on Louis XVI in the modern world: keep the starving masses at bay and crank up the insulated indulgence. Still, this is a horror film when all is said and done, and even some of Romero's best visual jokes (a Hare Krishna turned... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 07 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Donald Pleasence - Jamie Lee Curtis - Tony Moran Director(s): John Carpenter DVD Release Date: Released the 05 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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