Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 3.0
Visual shock and nothing else
This movie didn't have any humor. As for being scary, I don't think it was that scary at all. Now before you vote "not useful" on this review, at least read my reasons.Look at the plot. A bunch of young Texans go to check a grave, pick up a hitchhiker, and well, I don't want to spoil the rest. But the plot comes down to two or three sentences. There is hardly any story.The only reason for this movie to be scary is by throwing shocking scenes at you. Well, it does. The house is horrific. But does that make it a masterpiece? In what way is showing a bunch of skeletons and corpses art? If it does scare you, fine. You might as well go to your town's cemetery and dig out corpses yourself. Let me clarify this: I only have something against pure gore when it's used not in conjunction with anything else. This movie is a far cry from the cinematographic achievements of Halloween or The Exorcist.As for the suspense, the two scenes which claim to be thrilling are the chase in the woods scene and maybe the dinner scene. The chase is weak and badly filmed. And the dinner scene only shows a bunch of madmen shouting and laughing at Sally. Also, the grandfather some sort of ridiculous Frankenstein taken from a scifi movie into this otherwise reasonably realistic movie.So basically the movie shows you disgusting scenes in an old house. Again that'd be fine, but not if they base their movie on it. The two good scenes are Leatherface's chainsaw dance at the end, and the girl dicovering the room covered with you know what. That's why I give the movie 3 stars. It could have earned more if it had focused on the more psychological aspects of the family.PS If you want to learn more about Ed Gein, the guy the movie is inspired from, go to crimelibrary.com and click serial killers. There's a good article.