Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 1.0
Amazingly bad!
(There may be some spoilers here so beware.)Honestly, I thought it was a joke. I really didn't think this was seriously the movie everyone raved about. It's TERRIBLE! I mean it's really, REALLY bad. How on earth ANYBODY could enjoy this film is far beyond my vast, vast, incredibly vast understanding. It so bad you cannot even laugh AT it.First of all the film's so called 'gritty' look is, plain and simple, the result of the shoddiest photography this side of 70's [adult films]. The framing is horrifically composed and makes a drunken wedding video look like Laurence of Arabia. The sound is inaudible and the dialogue, worthless as it is, is nothing more than mumbles. As the 'story' develops so does the incomprehension. Mid-way through you'll tell yourself 'This cannot become anymore senseless.' Well it does. By the end you'll be completely lost and then...it's over. Just like that. I was assuming there was half an hour left but it just ends without resolving anything or giving us the payoff we deserve. What a rip-off!There is also ZERO suspense. Characters are killed almost right away leaving no room for excitement. Plus there is only ONE massacre with a chainsaw and you don't even see anything and it mostly occurs off camera. The final chase with the one character that actually gets some interaction with the bad guy is obviously the best bit of the movie but by this point I just wanted it to be over.I've no idea why so many people say this is a great movie or call it 'horror with a dark comic edge'. It's nothing of the sort. It's an embarrassingly amateur schlockfest that Ed Wood himself would disown. Check out the 2003 remake which is a zillion times the movie this dreadful nonsense is. Do not come within a mile of this! You have been warned.