Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 4.0
"Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?"
With all the cheesy slasher movies Hollywood has cranked out over the last twenty or so years, it's easy for the masses to forget a certain gem of terror that was unleashed upon the world in 1974. A brutal, gritty, unrelenting masterpiece that spawned the genre. A film that remains the most horrifying cinematic experience ever made to this day. A film known as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".The film begins with a sequence of brief, unsettling images of a decomposing corpse while a distant, ghostly voice informs us that someone has been making a macabre form of "art" out of long-buried human bodies. We are then introduced to a group of happy-go-lucky teens on their way to a remote, run-down mansion. On their way, they pick up a hitchhiker, who, after a rather awkward conversation, proceeds to cut himself and one of the teens. The teens quickly throw him out of their van and continue on their way. Once at the mansion, two of the teens begin to explore out back. They come across a house. And with the quick smack of a hammer to a forehead, the film turns into a non-stop ride of murder, dismemberment, cannibalism, and every form of horror you can imagine.Unlike the sleek, glossy "horror" films of today, "Massacre" has a gritty documentary feel to it, which just adds to the realism of the terror all the more. Another thing "Massacre" does differently than most horror films is how it approaches the violence. Throughout the film, you don't actually see a large amount of it. Don't get me wrong, this film contains some of most horrific, disturbingly violent content ever conveyed through cinema, but the fact that most of it occurs just off camera gives the film something of a surreal feeling, reminiscent of "Psycho".From the eerie opening to the rip-roaring last frame, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is an experience unlike any other. It may not be pleasant, I'm not even sure if you could call it entertaining, but it is undeniably horrific and it is something everyone should experience at least once in their lives, whether they like it or not.8.5/10