Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 4.0
Dedicated to making me soil my pants!
I've just watched this for the first time. I'm gonna watch it again with my mates cos this film has it all. Dumb big-breasted women, blokes with dodgy haircuts and a guy stuck in a wheelchair who you knows gonna get killed big-time. Guess what, he does!The film starts straight away! In other words, in the first two minutes you've already seen the most horrific piece of modern art you're ever going to see. By this I mean there's a dug up decaying corpse pinned to a monument in the graveyard. It's gross, but also a brilliant piece of movie-making, trust-me!Then, nothing happens for about twenty whole minutes until the group of teenagers with big-breasts and dodgy haircuts topped off with dodgy flares pick up a hitch-hiker. Straight away you know he's nuts but hey, you might be wrong, or so you thought. You soon know otherwise, I don't know why but I think you might guess it when he starts mutilating himself in the van. Not content with that, he decides to cut open the guy in the wheelchair. Obviously they chuck him out the van but not before he does his very own impression of a Scottish football match and starts headbutting the van as it drives away. Stupid, but very funny and somehow very un-nerving.That's the start of the movie dealt with. I'm not going to spoil the rest except to say one thing. The whole ten minute chase scene is the most scariest thing on tape I've ever seen. Imagine it, you've just seen your brother get run through by a chainsaw. The culprit looks at you through a leather face mask, his eyes sparkle. You think to yourself at that split-second, he looks familiar, then you wave it away. I mean, how could you best-mate look like Leatherface? However, you know what he's got on his mind and that's carving you up as well as your brother and then serving you as the main course at Thanksgiving. This is the most un-nerving and unsettling ten minutes of film I've ever seen. I was genuinely scared.The funniest part of the movie. When Leatherface trips up and the chainsaw lands on his leg and starts cutting into it. Brilliant light relief at the end of the movie. Another funny part, Leatherface doing a jig while swinging the chainsaw round his head.Most un-nerving part. The woman is running away as one of the brothers follow behind slashing violently at her back with a switchblade. Very sick!Overall, this is genuinely the scariest movie I've ever seen. I've never been this scared since I was a kid and watched Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time. If you like horrors, buy this! It's a must-see movie!