Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
I Saw This When It Opened
I feel you will get a kick of how I saw this movie.It was 1974 and I was only just 15 years old,my friend asked me if I wanted to go see a movie in Boston and that his father was going to take us,and I said yes let me ask my Mother and she said okay,it was the evening showing.I then said to my friend what's the name of the movie?he said "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"and I said whats that?he said I don't know but I want to see it,I remember my thinking was that it was going to be some sort of Documentary.So we arrive I get my popcorn and drink we sit in our seats and the movie starts.Already the opening music is making me uneasy along with the images of the corpses,so as the story goes along I start thinking someting is going to happen to this group,as soon as Kirk arrives in the house and Leather face hits him with the hammer I slouched in my seat and had never seen anything like that before,my friend sitting beside me looked at me and said "are you alright"and I remember clearly saying to him these exact words"WHAT IS THIS"I felt like walking out of the Theatre right there and then,but the part that really made me squirm was the meat hook scene,remember I'm just 15 years old and the scariest thing I had viewed up till then was the original "Frankenstein with Karloff"I managed to sit through the entire movie closing my eyes a few times with no escape,It stayed with me for a few weeks and took a while to get over it,that's how much of an impact it had on me.Of course now I own the movie and when I view it,it just bring's me back to that eventful day.To me it is the scariest Horror movie of all time.