Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
One of the All Time Horror Greats
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is about a group of five people which runs afoul of a psychopathic family of cannibals living in the Texas hinterlands. The film inspires dread and nervousness right from the start with unsettling music and little hints of bad things yet to come such as a horoscope and a drunk old man both predicting awful things. It also gives several moments of absolute shock and terror. The first appearance of Leatherface (the chainsaw wielding psycho who wears a mask of sewed-together skin) ranks right up there with the infamous shower scene from Psycho. Surprisingly, though, there is very little gore in this film. Most of the shocking action either takes place behind closed doors or in the background. The viewer is left to fill in the awful details with his/her imagination. The grainy film stock used to shoot the movie actually works to the film's advantage in that it gives the whole thing a documentary sort of feel, something clearly meant by the somber narration at the beginning of the film which states what the viewer is seeing is real.If you want a real scare, this is the film for you. Ignore the horrid recent remake.