my review of the texas chainsaw massacre 1974

[bornix101]

ps this is my first review be gentle criticism would be helpful


Just from the title you can tell what to expect from the movie a bloody scary film that isn't just scary it can be funny. At times but it not trying to be a funny horror movie and that what makes it one of the best slasher films out there. During my review ill try not to use spoilers anyway. The plot is five teenagers go to visit their grandfather grave that has been desecrated while on the way to their fathers grave they. Deiced to visit their old family home and of course their van runs out of gas this movie provides everything. A good horror movie need suspense violence creepy atmosphere great charterers i mean leatherface is such an original character a slasher villein who dose not know any better killing out of fear and self defense over all i would say this is a much watch for anyone who calls them self a horror fan this film. Tobe Hooper doesn't fail to deliver with this cult classic 4/5

[TylerDurden99]

Even though I don't find it scary, it's one of the few horror movies I love.

[cinemaafficionado]

For an extremely low budget movie, it was incredibly well made and realistic. Some of the suspence scenes were straight out of Hitchkock.
Leatherface openning that door and snatching that guy was just " wow " .
Tobe Hooper unleashed a cult classic.

[akatemple]

Really one of the best horror movies based on a true story (that just scares the crap out of me) that there is.

[Nausicaä]

^ Very loosely based.

[Sexy Celebrity]

i mean leatherface is such an original character a slasher villein who dose not know any better killing out of fear and self defense

I don't think he kills out of fear and self defense. I think he's been trained to see other human beings, besides his family, as meat. Other people are like chickens and cows and things and the land around his home is his farm. When he's out there chasing people with the chainsaw, he's catching meat -- he's catching dinner. He has been brought up to see the world this way. He might be afraid of people to an extent, but it's because he's not used to people as anything other than objects. Everything about Leatherface -- what he cares for -- is his family. It's only until the sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, do we realize that Leatherface's starting to look at his female victims and see them as more than just food -- his natural sexuality is coming out and he wants them as love objects. By the third film, though, this even seems to merge and blend to where now Leatherface can feel both things -- love and hunger.

[dadgumblah]

Nice comments on the film, bornix. I feel the same way that most everyone does about the film, except the film really didn't scare me but...it made me very unsettled. So, if that counts as scared, then mission accomplished! :)

I agree with cinemaafficionado that the scene that really got me was Leatherface pounding that guy, pulling him into the slaughter room, then slamming the door. The whole scene seemed to go by so fast you barely had time to react. Only afterwards did you go, "What the what?!"

When I first saw it, it was re-released in the late '70s (even though a certain "famous for its facts" movie site doesn't mention that date, only its original 1974 release). It was either '77 or '78 because I had just got my first car and a friend and I drove to a theater to watch it. There were two couples in front of us, making fun of the film and irritating us with their rudeness. Yet, about 1/3 of the way through, when things really got serious, I noticed that they were completely quiet and remained so till the end of the film. So, it got to them also. :D

I liked it enough to see the sequel, which starred Dennis Hopper, which I also enjoyed..well, as much as I can enjoy a "torture" type flick. Not to demean it for other folks...just don't like to see innocent types suffering. Dimbulbs like in the Friday the 13th films, well, I just say, "Go, Jason, go!"

[Cream]

Nothing scary about this movie at all. Just hacking and slashing, hacking and slashing... It bored the crap out of me just like Friday The 13th. Some horror movies that I like: Deep Red, The Changeling, Black Sunday, The Haunting...

[ollanik]

I only watched 2003. version...