Product: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original Uncut) [Region 2] (1974)
Rating: 5.0
Simply the best!!!!
-"Have you already noticed that the soundtrack of this film is totally based on the middle scary section of "Echoes" from Pink Floyd, with that sound of humans as it comes from another world, pay attention, and you will discover that I'm right, by the way, the soundtrack fits perfectly to the film atmosphere".-I watched this absolute masterpiece when I was fifteen or maybe sixteen year old and several times I had to go out of television room trying to avoid looking at the television so scared I was. And nowadays when I watched it again, I tried to understand why it is so scary. I'm sure that the reason is the low budget, the atmosphere is so realistic that you can really think those things are happening, and start to think same thing happening with you or with your friends, is brutal, rude, the environment mainly at the final part whith dark night behind all scenes. That scene where Leatherface runs at Sally with the turned on "Chain Saw" trying to kill her, you only can discern three things, Leatherface, Sally and the CHAIN SAW, IS MACABRE. Another scene really scary is that Cannibal's banquet, with father, sons and Grandfather, that scene is surreal. She claims for her life, she shouts for her life, she screams for her life and they keep laughing all the time long, like saying - "We are going to kill you anyway" - The more she cries the more they laugh. Genius, they really didn't mind about human life, to them, human suffering is still more exciting, and this is terrible to imagine, because you can imagine what could happen to you if you were caught by that kind of people. The final scene when she runs toward the road screaming a lot with that dement trying to cut her with that knife, suddenly appears that huge truck and crashes the dement passing over him, she jumps up on the pick up and screams desperately, go, go, go, several times, like she turned into a kind of dementia either, and the vision of LeatherFace moving fast his beloved Chain Saw as he was pissed off of not getting to kill her, is the most perfect scene of all terror movie, fantastic, brutal, intelligent. She is covered in bloody herself and with a brutal fear look like on her face. Wow, again, wow, awesome. The most important thing to say is that even being the idea based on the same killer that inspired "Psycho", a lot of original ideas happened in this film, for example: Very young people travelling and being killed by some maniac, the mask on Leatherface's face. And others original ideas still not copied because would appears pretty evident the idea of copy itself, for example: The object used to kill people in this case the Chain Saw, and the brutal way Leatherface killed his victins with a sledge-hummer. The ideas on this film has been copied several times by great scary films like "Halloween", "Jason", and others, but I think this is good, because it's a tribute. I just say, buy this film and maintain it in your collection because it deserves to, this is a timeless classic.