Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
Get Your Motor Runnin', Brotha!
Viewed: 9/06, 4/12Rate: 99/06: This is the original. A cult flick in its own right, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a beautifully shot picture but with a flaw: its slow pacing. Yes, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a true horror picture with great knack for its sheer depravity and terror. Once thought as a nightmare, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a reality. This is the type of an independent picture where conventional rules are not followed but rather the instincts. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is exactly how a horror picture should be made. It's no different from Night of the Living Dead and Halloween. Focusing on the flaw, it's slow at times and sometimes boring. Overcoming that single flaw, when the action starts, it's quite effective. It makes The Texas Chain Saw Massacre a film apart from its counterparts. The ending is a definitive scene of the horror genre.4/12: This is the one that started it all: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a legendary horror flick that is in a class of its own. What's interesting about it is that it features a family of mentally retards that are into cannibalism and graverobbing yet it's all perfectly logical to me. I mean, it's safe to say that a low level of intelligence does breed crimes, and what happened in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is as normal as it gets, at least by the standards of the family. There was never a horror film of a faceless murderer using power tools to senselessly massacre people, so that's why The Texas Chain Saw Massacre got mythologized over the years for absurd reasons (think back to Summer School's Francis aka Chainsaw and his buddy Dave). Yeah, it is a sadistic picture that left nobody to mercy. All in all, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is in the Hall of Fame of horror pictures.