Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 2.0
waaaaaaay too overrated
Honestly this movie is not nearly as good as many people say it is, and these are my reasons:1} some scenes are unrealistic - when leatherface starts sawing Kirk into pieces, there is no blood shown at all, now i understand that Tobe may not have wanted too much gore but in other scenes blood is shown (eg. when leatherface slams kirk with the hammer). another unrealistic scene is when laether face saws at franklin while Sally just stands there screaming her head off, i mean, any idiot would run like hell at that very second but she just stands there like some sort of retard.2) some scenes are just too long- when pam falls into the bones the camera just focuses on the bones for what feels like forever. Another is when leatherface was chasing sally through the woods; 8 minutes of leatherface running after sally, who is just runnning and screaming her head off, waving his chainsaw about. that was one of the most annoying scenes in the whole movie.3} LeatherFace - that fool didn't scare me for one second, his brother was way more creepy. leatherface is just a big stupid retard that can't do anything but grunt all day, he's always taking orders from his dad and even whimpers when his dad yells at him, now come on, how the hell is a guy like that supposed to scare you, his mask looks like a clown or something.Maybe in 1974 this actually scared people, but today, it didn't scare me, although at times it did make me laugh.the only real reason i gave it two stars was that it introduced a very good idea into modern horror nad fueling the remake which is an excellent movie.take it from me, watch the remake (if you want to call it that, it's actually only loosely based on this), now that movie just HURTS you, and LeatherFace is much scarier in it(oh, and for those of you purists who think that the remake is crap and this is amazing, you really need a lesson in horror; the remake scared me and this didn't, and i watch a lot of horror movies, new and old, including Last house on the Left and House on the Edge of the Park).Think about this review the next time you watch this movie and when you watch the remake.