Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 1.0
The second most overrated horror film next to "The Shining".
This 1974 low-budget horror "classic" is yet another overrated horror film. It may have started the slasher genre, but it's no "Psycho" or "Halloween". Those are the only two slasher films that are actually classics. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is just stupid ... None of the teenagers in this film are ones that you care about. By the last half of the film, I wanted Sally [Marilyn Burns] to be sawed because all she did was scream for a whole hour. The cannibals were more sickening and laugh-inducing than scary. For a better serial-killer film, go for "Silence of the Lambs" and "Psycho" of course. Those films are subtle and truly, deeply scary. "TCM" is over-the-top, grainy, crude, and masochistic.