Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
Hoopers Classic Now with Barbecue Sauce.
The Tobe Hooper classic is not nearly the gore-fest many remember it to be, but that doesn't mean it's not a gruesome, sadistic and brutal low budget film.The very idea of a family of nearly retarded, essentially unstoppable cannibal psycho killers is scary stuff. Since you know it was inspired by the real life Wisconsin's Ed Gein it's a little more disturbing yet. The fact that nearly all of the young characters we meet are as annoying and whiny as those in the Blair Witch Project, might dilute the horror of what happens to them for some of you, but some of the images, and motifs that Tobe Hooper finds are at times nightmarish and disturbing. The fat guy annoys, Marilyn screams and screams again, and there is that meat hook conversation stopper. It's sick, twisted stuff and the low budget amateurism of the film adds to its dark grisliness. You won't get the gore effects, but you'll get plenty to be squeamish about ( Nuff said I hope). The DvD offers probably the best print you'll ever see of the film. It's far from perfect but it was shot on cheap film stock by people who were learning how to shoot films.Okay there's no barbecue sauce but there are some some valuable extras including an informative and worth listening to commentary track, too brief blooper reel and trailers for all the sequels.Christopher J. Jarmick, Author of The Glass Cocoon with Serena F. Holder...