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I'm also inclined to note that there's a distinct lack of a sound effect for this action, there's no suckling meat noise when Main Girl #2 gets hung up on the rack, and you never see the hook entry wound or anything, so the movie's really just relying on you being squeemish enough to hate the idea o...

The film's edit is credited to Larry Carroll, but a lot of the film was constructed with Tobe Hooper grinding everything along while negotiating the funds that would be needed to finish the film.

For a Finn of my age The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is more than a film - it's the epitome of our old movie censorship.

The way Hooper filmed it was like a documentary, not carefully and steadily building suspense, but manically twitching all over the place to create an uneasy feeling, sort of a reminder that this isn't a film that prides itself on the way of the artiste.

The amateur camerawork and editing don't draw attention to themselves in a negative manner but only serve to complement the film's grimy aesthetic, especially when the film veers away from looking like a home movie and starts ratcheting up the horror.

Consequently, the violence is brief and sudden, and can't be distinguished from the remainders of the film because it's filmed in the exact same way a dialogue scene is, and that in itself is quite disturbing because its portraying violence in quite a detached way, that very few other films choose t...

Anyway, these stories of horror keep going and going and then I realized what it was trying to say: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is another such story.

While this film is not one of my favourite horror films of all time, I can say that I appreciate and respect it a hell of a lot.