Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
Mandatory 70's Horror
One of the best horror films ever and one of the most suspenseful films...peroid. I bought this movie on Dvd last Halloween and it is funny to watch these 70's horror movies with a cleaned up picture, they hardly seem like the same movie, but no matter there was a caertain freshness to movies like this one and Halloween and Dawn of the Dead. There was a new freedom in movies in the 70's with the rating system. Texas Chainsaw Massacre holds up very well today, yet opitimizes 70's maverick filmmaking better than most. Leatherface was a great character and the whole family adds a little dark humor here. The sequel was enjoyable, it did what most horror sequels do, rework the first with a lot more humor. Evil Dead 2, Phantasm 2, Nightmare on Elm St. 2, are other examples of this. Despite the other sequels that came after the second one and the horrible remake, nothing has sullied this one, it's still a must for any film fan.