Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
A bit of Psycho ( 1960) and the life of Ed. Gein - with that you have TCM 1974
This is by far the #1 slasher flick out there and IMO the #1 horror to ever be made. The 2000 and something re-make imo is very bad and this movie shouldnt even be attempted to be made unless done almost to the "T" if not this re-makes should never have been made.A group of young guys and girls go to Texas with the intent of 2 of the kids ( FRankiln and Sally ) wanting to visit there grandfathers grave being that there have been grave robbers stealing corpses, with that a summer afternoon of fun turns into pure terror. They run into a family of cannibals who will kill and eat anything that comes in there path.This movie does not only attempt to bring terror at night but also during the day, and is just as creepy. The killings while not overly graffic if graffic at all, just to have an idea of what is going on is quit terrifying its self. While they do show the murders just with not graffic gory detail.You are introduced to Chop Top and the Cook early in the film but dont really find out who they are till the end.The movie keeps a solid pace and gets going about 35 minutes with the first murder and so on at the one hour mark you get introduced to the whole family and the terror that ies within them and for one girl I dont think would have ever imagined the things that she would see in the house.Great acting especially by ChopTop ,LeatherFace and the Cook they play the role of someinsane twisted characters and must be given reccomendations for doing so and doing it so perfect.As for the props house design and everything is excellent as most of the furniture in the house of LeatherFace is made of human bones which is a great addition and quit eerey ( and supposably that is how Ed Geins house was with having some furniture made of human bones )The Psycho comparison comes from the point that Leatherface keeps his dead Grandmother and half dead Grandfather along with the dead family dog upstairs in the 2nd floor of the house as does A.Perkins in Psycho also as wellas LeatherFace at the end wearing the some old ladies hair and face with that being similar to Perkins as he dresses up as his Mother when killings just doesnt wear the face just the hair.Now this story was made also based on true life events and those based on serial killer Ed Gein who was a cannibal and serial killer murdering mainly women and not only eating them but wearing the face ,genitals and body skin after killing them and skinning them. Now to make it clear in this flick all that LeatherFace wears is the facial skin of his victims nothing else.In this film I dont know if many noticed but Leather face also wears the faces of three victims one being a regular man face the other a grandmother or elder ladys face and the last a young women you could the difference in all just a hedas up as doing that i feel was great gives you an idea of how many people they must have previousley killed and how twisted a man and family the three of them are.