6/19/2023 0 Comments Kirk the texas chain saw massacreShe’s not strong, she’s weak and frail and you honestly feel like she’s not going to survive the ordeal. Sally is played perfectly by Marilyn Burns. Leatherface cutting his own leg is the majority of the gore in the film, and even that is barely shown on screen.Īcting: The acting here is top notch, from everyone. For all bones and furniture made of skin, you don’t ever see people actually getting cut up. All of the gore is implied, which adds to the movies effectiveness to scare you. The rest of the deaths in the movie are completely bloodless, even when the Hitchhiker gets run over. There’s one death by chainsaw, and even then you barely see a small bit of blood fly across the screen (and that’s if you’ve got the DVD, as it’s almost invisible on VHS). Even those that have seen the movie will claim it to be gory, but it’s not. This is where so many people get confused about the movie. The setting also backs up the whole feeling of hopelessness, as there’s nothing outside the crazy family house besides darkness. The pacing then slows down to allow the viewers to be tortured alongside those onscreen. It moves along nicely in the early going, bringing you into these characters and finding out who are, before dropping the bomb of what they’re walking into. The movie not having music adds to that whole “this is real” feeling that ended up surrounding the movie for the next forty years. Sometimes you hear a cymbal going off, but the sounds are mostly grunts and groans, or the sounds of the inside of a slaughterhouse (seriously). The tagline of the movie should have clued people in: “What happened is true, now the motion picture that’s just as real.” With no internet to prove it’s not real, people just bought it. This is yet another case of the movie coming out at the right time, because people bought that it was a true story and passed it along for years. The writer/director, Tobe Hooper, based some of the character of Leatherface on real life serial killer Ed Gein, who liked to dress up in the flesh of his victims. The movie is supposedly based on a true story, and should you find yourself visiting a number of horror movie message boards, you’ll still find people to this day that argue it’s based on a true story. That is what makes the movie so damn scary to me it’s hopeless. You watch this knowing there’s no way for them to get help, and no one is coming to save them. The film is also helped that a lot of modern technology wasn’t available to these kids. In the 70’s, it was almost routine, so the kids finding the hitchhiker and getting attacked by him first gives you a little glimpse of what’s to come. Today, no one picks up random people walking down the highway. There’s so much that works for the movie because of the time frame when it came out, like the hitchhiker early in the film. TCM had the luck of coming out in the early 70’s. Even now, at the ripe age of thirty, I still get the creeps watching the movie by myself. I’ve always been a fan of horror movies, but none of them scare me in the way Texas Chainsaw Massacre does. I’ve seen a lot of horror movies, I grew up in the 80’s when Jason, Freddy and Michael Meyers were at their peak and it wasn’t unusual to dress up as one of them for Halloween. I wanted to start my “review” off with that line because it’s me being one hundred percent honest. The film, even today, is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. What can be said about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that hasn’t already been said? I realize I glossed over the plot, like the hitchhiker and the fact that the family are cannibals, but really that’s up to you to see for yourself. The climax sees Sally barely able to escape, with the hitchhiker getting run over and Leatherface not able to catch up to his prey. Franklin ends up on the wrong end of the chainsaw, and Sally spends the night with Leatherface, his two brothers, and their grandpa. Jerry eventually ends up dead next, before Sally and Franklin are attacked. The first to get killed are Kirk and Pam, who meet Leatherface, the chainsaw wielding star of the movie. Once the kids reach the old house, the bodies start dropping. After Sally and Franklin confirm their grandfather is still safe in the ground, they decide to take a trip out to his old house that they’ve not visited since they were kids. The local commentaries in the area have been desecrated by vandals, who dig up bodies and pose them on tombstones like artwork. The two of them, along with three other friends take a trip across Texas to visit the grave of Sally and Franklin’s grandfather. The story centers around Sally and her brother Franklin. Review: This is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen in my life. They eventually go to the old family farm house and wind up on the bad side of a group of cannibals. Plot: Five teens take a trip through Texas to check on their grandfather’s grave during a rash of ritualistic grave desecrations.
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