Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
All Hail The Scariest Movie Ever Made!!!
There has been much talk recently about the scariest movie ever made. Indeed, The Blair Witch Project, when it come out to much hype, was heralded as the scariest movie ever.Er, hardly.Scariest movie? Well, it's not the Exorcist, it's not Jaws and it's not The Shining.It's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.Tobe Hooper manages to scare, right from the moment the "Mystery Machine" picks up the deranged hitchhiker to Leatherfaces debut, right to the frail granpa trying to have one more kill, to scare shock and horrify the audience. Yet, he does it with both style and reckless abandon - and almost no blood.For this is no mere slasher pic. This is a key to the knee-jerk fear everyday people have to all those inbred hick stories that get banded around. And this is the most terryfying of them all.Once seen, never forgotten - watch the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, (restored on DVD with superb extras) and every other film will pale in comparrison. Trust me.