Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
The all time horror masterpiece
When Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel, and their merry crew decided to make a movie, they crafted one of the greatest, most shocking, disturbing, and unrelenting horror films ever made. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre managed to pull out all the stops to be shocking and terrifying with little or no blood and gore. Tobe Hooper was ingenious to just implying what you were seeing as opposed to what was on screen and off; and his grainy, documentary style filmaking approach to the film makes it all the more scary and realistic. We all know the story by now: a group of young kids go out in the backwoods of Texas and are stalked, murdered, chopped up, impaled on hooks, and served for dinner by a deranged cannibalistic family which includes the chainsaw wielding maniac called Leatherface who would go down in horror film history as a horror icon. Hooper would follow up with a lesser (but still worth watching) sequel in 1986 where he was given a bigger budget and more tools to his disposal; but nothing could ever match the pure ferocity and insanely dark humor of this original film. All in all, forget New Line's recent re-make, this is the horror film to end all horror films.