Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 2.0
Let's Hope the Remake Is Better
The very title of this film is the thing of which horror film legend is made. And so it has been since I've been around (I'm 35). Somehow I managed to never view this flick until I heard that a new version was coming and I wanted to be able to compare the original to the 21st century version.Despite everything I'd heard, I was really disappointed. The movie begins on the road as five young friends (yes, two are brother and sister) cruise through small Texas towns in a van. After stopping for gas only to learn that the tanker has yet to arrive, they head to the nearby residence of a former relative. There the trouble begins.Two of the friends head for a nearby swimming hole and discover a neighboring house. From that point, it's essentially what we'd call today "cut and paste". A droll and simple movie. Kill, kill. Slash, slash. No, I wasn't expecting Ben-Hur or Psycho, but after all the hype I figured this movie had more to offer than a brief cookie-cutter plot that could have come from the mind of a ten-year-old.Grandpa's last effort at killing was something of an oddity, though.