Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
The Granddaddy of all slasher movies!
(I'm not a kid, don't laugh if you think I'm lying, damn it)This ISN'T the granddaddy, Bay Of Blood is. This came out the same year as Black Christmas, making them the daddys. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is my third favorite slasher movie, just below A Nightmare On Elm Street and Evil Dead 2. This is not an extremely gory film, and we, the viewers, can only imagine the gore that befell(SPOILER)the four teens that were slaughtered.(SPOILERS AHEAD!)The film begins with a fairly young narrator talking about the brutal events of one of the most bizzare crime scenes in history, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.(Really not too much from Leatherface's Chainsaw)The film cuts to five teens in a van. In the front are BF and GF Sally Hardesty with Jerry behind the wheel. In the middle are Kirk and Franklin. In the back is Pam. They pick up a hitchhiker, who says that his family is in to meat. He sits by Pam, who obviously thinks he's a freak. He tells, very detailed, about the gruesome ways of hunting meat. He slashes at his hand and blood doesn't gush out, but there is alarge smear. He takes a polaroid picture of the group and burns it with gunpowder. When they are obviously about to kick him out, he slashes at the crippled Frankin. They kick him out and Hitchhiker Hillbilly Jenkins smears blood on the window. The teens have no idea what to make of this. They are on their way to Sally and Franklin's grandfather's house after a series of grave robbing, but of course, their true intentions are for the couples to make love and hang out. They are needful of gas, but the Old Man(Drayton Sawyer)that works at the gas station says they're out of gas. They get directions to the nearest house, their grandfather's. They have fun and relax, with Franklin Need-To-Die whining the whole time. Kirk and Pam go for a walk and Kirk goes inside a deserted farmhouse. He THINKS it's deserted, anyway. He is watched by Bubba Sawyer/Leatherface and the horrror begins. He is hit with Leatherface's hammer and dragged away. Stupid Pam realizes Hero-Boy Kirk hasn't returned and looks for him. Leatherface has another "customer". He impales her on a meathook and revs up the ol' chainsaw. He goes to the freezer where kirk is and he is slaughtered to bits. Pam eventually dies too. Jerry decides to go look for them and he is killed with a sledgehammer. Leatherface is really tired of his house guests. Franklin and Sally see that everyone's missing, so they search through the woods and sally pushes Franklin's wheelchair. Leatherface shows up and kills Franklin. A huge chase begins through the woods and vines, where Sally runs into old Dayton Sawyer. She asks for help and they go into his truck. They pick up the crazy hitchhiker and they drive to the old hhouse. Sally realizes that Leatherface, Sawyer and Hitchhiker are all brothers. The dinner scene arrives. Their dying Grandpa is about to be eaten by the brothers but they tell him that he can have a taste of Sally's finger. he sucks her blood, dying and Sally escapes. They go after their dinner and Sally runs back to where she was kidnapped. A big truck stopped for her, but hit the Hitchhiker, killing him. The truck driver holds off Leatherface and Sally is rescued. Is her savior just another person in cahoots with the Sawyer family? The viewers must decide. Leatherface does the "chainsaw dance" and the film ends.This is my third favorite horror movie of all timre and it is action-packed and loaded with suspence. Not too much gore, but it's just scary. Grab some popcorn, a soda or maybe even a Bushmills original whiskey and see this bad boy!