Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
WOULD THE REAL ED GIEN, PLEASE STAND! THE FINEST FILM AND SOUND TRANSFER OF CHAINSAW YET.........THE BIZARRE AND THE MACAABE!
I did own all the dvd released editions of this movie. Like with the other chainsaw dvd editions you already own this ultimate edition is about making Hooper more money on something you already have. I will say dark sky films did an awesome job on this film tranfer of 16 mm prints. The high definition transfer is awesomely brilliant. This ultimate edition has the best film tranfer so far of any of the past pioneer dvd editions. No white marks and a nice color to the print on the transfer. The special features are of glutteness porportions. On this dark sky edition there are outakes and bloopers, commercials both tv and movie, with some special programs and interviews with some of the actors and actresses. People in 1974 actually walked out on the trailer preview in some movie theatres because of their horrorifying appeal. Tobe hooper got the idea for chainsaw reading news reports of the 1950s Wisconsins serial killer and cannibal Ed Gien. In chainsaw hooper realistically showed the audience Ed Giens real life of horror. The music score for chainsaw is a masterpiece for films of this genre. The soundtrack added more terror and macabe to this film. The sound tranfer on this dvd is a treat to listen to on your theatre system, 2.0 and 5.1 channels are available so you get the full effect of chainsaw. The scene that stood with me was of the young couple looking for the swimming hole only to find it dry, as they continued to walk they spot leatherfaces house, all you the viewer see is the camera slowly pan to your left as Leatherfaces house comes into your view, as the camera lens goes by, you see a few second shot of ragged bushes with a destroyed clock with a nail in it and cans hanging from the bush and the first site of leatherfaces house.The thing that gets me is it scared the hell out of me and it was in daylight. The couple was walking into hell and unaware of it, believe me after seeing this scene for the first time I knew this couple was finished.how about when the young woman falls into leatherfaces room of the the maccabe you see all the skulls and old tube set radios, animal skeletons and a hen in a birdcage with bird feathers all around the floor, the expressions of terror and fear on that young womans face is captured brilliantly, even the lighting for this scene dictated her emotion, with the warped music(soundtrack) to go with this scene. You really see inside the head of all out insanity. What about when leatherface gets his leg sliced open with his own chainsaw, instead of lying in pain, he gets up off the ground and goes after young sally instead, to me hooper showed insanity with this scene to a different level in the annals of cinema history, I really believed that this turned alot of people off but this scene stood with the viewer well after the movie ended. Perhaps the end scene when leatherface is twirling around with the chainsaw and suddenly (cut!)credits roll, pure madness and insanity caught brilliantly by tobe hooper.Lets not forget young sallys stay at leatherfaces house, as she is tied up, the emotion along with her extreme eye closeups capture a powerful vision of absolute terror. With the help of unknown actors hooper and a reliable film crew made a very bizarre and scary film.The sequals of chainsaw are nothing more than cash ins on the original, but who could blame tobe hooper for wanting to use the original formula again in chainsaw sequals, chainsaw 1 has made tobe alot of money.Tobe had other movie successes but nothing like chainsaw. Like I said the film and sound transfer are a treat to view and hear on this ultimate edition. Tobe hooper had a dream with chainsaw in 1973, what he created with very limited 16 mm film was horror cinema history.If you the viewer wish to see inside the mind of total insanity (the heck with the Silence Of The Lambs, another Ed Gien parady) the Texas Chainsaw Massacre cuts them all up hands down................