The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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 humour (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
Customer Review: Pure Class!!
After being told quite some time ago by the owner of my local video store not to watch this on my own as it was so grisly and wait until I had some company to view such a shocker, I finally bit the bullet and persuaded my boyfriend to watch the TCM with me - we were not disappointed by all the hype surrounding such infamous horror flick…….the two of us sat absolutely frozen to the spot with fear!!! Although this film does not have the same gore-factor and visible blood-shed as more modern day horrors, it did not lose its ability to make me go to sleep that night with a cricket bat placed next to the bed!!
The combination of the grainy and voyeuristic filming, the suspense of when Leatherface was going to make an appearance certainly sparked one’s imagination as to what was to happen next, not to mention a feeling of shear dread - especially when we see him or the first time hitting his victim with a hammer, dragging him off to his slaugherhouse and slamming the metal door behind him.
I have seen the modern-day remake of this film and all I can say is that it absolutely pales in comparison with the original.
Customer Review: Who will survive and what will be left of them
Having seen most of the very best horror films as a youngster in the 1980’s, I never got to see this until it was finally lifted from it’s ban in 1999 and I have to be honest, when I did see this for the first time, I was a little disappointed, I am now convinced that the reason for this was because of all the hype and the fact that I had waited such a long time to see it plus I watched it in the daytime (not a good idea for a horror film of this quality). I say this because everytime I have watched it since that disappointing first time, I find it more scary on every repeated viewing and I seem to appreciate it more and more as up until about two years ago (at the time of writing) this wasn’t even in my top ten horror films, it definitely is now and it will probably stay there for the rest of my life.
This film has such a depressing and grim feel to it and to me this is all the scarier for it as a horror film, it is probably for this reason that some people find it boring because I did on first viewing. if like me you are a huge fan of horror movies and was disappointed with this on first viewing, not because of the lack of gore (if that is all you are interested in then watch the remake) but because it just didn’t somehow do it for you, then I would urge you to watch this a few more times late at night as you might just change your opinion about it, I am sure if I can then other people can (I can’t be that unique).
For me, it is the all less is more that makes this film scary and from the moment that the youngsters stop and investigate the ghost town like house in the unbearable heat of Texas, I always get a creepy feeling that someone is watching their every move and this is because of the genius directing of Tobe Hooper, I have seen the remake of this and don’t find it anywhere near as tense and claustrophobic as this original, then there is that unforgettable ending, in my opinion this is the greatest last 3 minutes to a horror film ever.
It is no coincidence that most of the scariest horror movies are low budget and this is another one of them because most of the actors look tired and depressed because at the time of filming they really were and this is to their credit that they worked so hard to make this the classic that it now is. A little tip to any director that wants to make a classic horror movie, over produced means less scary, watch this as an example. OUTSTANDING HORROR.
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