Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 2.0
It's ok...but it could have been a lot BETTER
This is my second review on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 version, only because my last review for this movie seems to be making people frustrated. I have watched it a few more times I think 5 times in total, and each time it gets better, but I just can't understand it. It starts off slow, and I don't understand what the rotting person on the tombstone means, then we come into the story which seems to drag on for the first half hour then it gets exciting when the first kill happens and we see Leatherface. And I am expecting to have to mood be clam for 10 minutes and here comes another kill...ok Now we can sit back and take a breather but no, the third kill. Ok 2 people are left, and then the fourth victim is offed and we have Sally who only wants to run around for 45 minutes and she never dies. Why couln't the other people think like her and try to live longer? The movie is too fast paced and moves too quickly. ONly 83 minutes and 10 of those minutes are opening credits and all that so 73 minutes of a movie that doesn't do much for anyone except make you leave with a sick feeling in your stomch. I wuld give it 2 and 1/2 stars but nothing higher! It doesn't deserve it I think! Hooper tried his best and it was...ok, but not the greatest and I don't know why this was such a successful movie!? It does have it's fair share of scares but not enough of them. The music is good and the angles at which some of the scenes are shot are very interesting! But it really shows that this was a low budget movie and it was ( 100,000$ ) but you could have taken out the sound where we hear the camera rolling and stuff like that. And like I said the music was good but it wasn't played at the right times. Like Sally was running through the forrest and half way through, the music starts playing. It could have been a lot better and you can hate me for saying that. Hooper could have made the movie longer if he went inot detail about the characters. I had no idea that Sally and the guy in the wheelchair were brother and sister until i read it in a review just now, and what was some of their names?? The 2nd and 3rd person to get killed, and the hitch-hiker and the dad. This movie could have easily been better with some more detail. It is still an ok movie, but not hte classic I think many people are portraying it to be!