Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
What Horror was meant to be.
This film has remained an enduring, groundbreaking, earth-shattering opus to Tobe Hooper and to the horror genre which it single-handedly reinvented. With the state of modern "horror" today (Scream, Urban Legends, Blair Witch) it is so refreshing to see the Massacre get a fantasic transferral to DVD. This is a true classic, based in part on the life of serial killer Ed Gein(SP?) who dismantled his victims and cannibalized most of them. Hooper's use of sound in this film is simply astonishing and adds so much to the madness that these teens walk into. Innovative camera work as well, because most of the blood and gore is left to your imagination. But just the sight of leatherface opening the slide door and the reaction on that girls face is truly chilling. The ending of this film is simply amazing and perfectly fits this masterpiece, who knows what happens to leatherface and his cadre of psycho's and who wants to know! The chainsaw dance remains one of the best moments ever captured on celluloid. If your idea of a good scary movie is the Blair Witch Project or Scream, then please rent this film for it will be the first time a film will actually scare you, as well as scar you.