Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 3.0
Not half as gruesome as one might think...
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre" starts off promisingly with two skinned corpses being tied to a gravestone - but then it all slows down to a over-average, though (of course) nasty teenage-slasher movie. The story about some rather dumb teenagers being killed by a family of homicidal maniacs in rural Texas is rather neglectable, but there are still some scenes in this movie you won't forget easily: for example, when Kirk dares go into the mysterious farmhouse and suddenly finds himself face to face with impressive killer Leatherface, or poor disabled Franklin being chainsawed by Leatherface jumping out of the bushes all of a sudden - this really lets you know Tobe Hooper is a master in handling shock effects. All the time watching TCM I sat waiting for the ultimate gore scene with lots of bowels flying around and people being dismembered in a horrible manner, but my hopes were to be disappointed. It's not half as yukky as all those guardians of moral claim it to be, but it's kind of fun anyway. There's one thing I must complain about, and it's the very amateurish realisation of this movie; at times, it feels like it was filmed with a handycam or something, shaky and blurred as it is. See it to be able to say you've seen it, but there's not much to it. If you want a good horror movie, check out Raimi's "Evil Dead" - a classic as well.