Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
Don't Eat That!!
Yep, I saw this gem and knew I'd seen a masterpiece. Leatherface is only one of a clan of insane murderers with a family food business. A group of dippy hippy types pick up one of them, who acts so weird, they toss him out! Our fearless heroes end up right next door to the family. Upon investigating the house, death ensues. The first terrifying part comes when one of the girls is in the livingroom. She stumbles in and looks around at the furniture and decor. In a cloud of chicken feathers, she sees things made out of bones, some of them human, and her bulging eyes are unforgettable! This happens AFTER Leatherface has already taken her boyfriend into the back room. You know she's next, but Tobe Hooper makes you wait a while! Not since "Psycho" has tension been used so expertly. I won't give away the rest, just believe the hype! TCM is not all that gorey. It relies more on our own fears and a sense of the unreal instead of beating us over the head with overt splatter. Leatherface is the original masked maniac that spawned the likes of Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers some years later. The last 20-30 minutes of TCM always get me biting my nails to nubs! Don't watch it alone...