Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 3.0
On My List Of Favorite Overlooked Films
May 2, 2002Okay, admittedly the appeal of this film is limited.What's more, its virtues are very, very hard to uncover.But I can recommend it for one reason: Somehow, someway,whether by design or simply by fluke, via the curiousprocess that is amateur filmmaking, 'The Texas ChainsawMassacre' is the closest a film has ever come toduplicating the experience of REM-ing your way througha nightmare.The rub is you have to sit through it until the end.You have to sit through all of the bad acting, poorproduction, and slow build up--the net effect of whichcan be quite embarrassing. But, if you get to the end,you might see what I'm talking about: that point in thefilm that Tobe Hooper finishes stepping over the lineof good taste and a peculiarly warped but familiar logiccomes into play. Nightmare logic.But you must have that taste for grade-Z filmmaking.