standing straight in the middle of the cell: great film. all y'all that complain about movie violence can kiss my ass. if u had yr way, there wouldn't b this, Goodfellas, the original Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Omen, Evil Dead, A Clockwork Orange, etc
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is a masterpiece. Tobe Hooper made that thing on a shoestring budget. It started a whole new genre of horror films. He made his own sound effects. I hear them being ripped off unto this day in other horror flicks.
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it is. i love it. it's insane, w/lots of little things going on like the guy at the gas station that's sittin' there starin' at the sun. & the guy in that pic turned in a great performance: my fuckin' hero
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And, Franklin, the whiny putz in the wheelchair. He should have gotten an Oscar. And, the Cook (guy who ran the gas station). He kidnaps the girl, puts her in the truck, says "Everything's gonna be alright" & then starts poking her with a stick...
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oh yeah, the scene where F blows the raspberries (come on out to the country, Franklin! it'll be great!): classic. yeah, he was great too. "he don't do no killing!" "i, i just don't get any enjoyment out of it"
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It took them 30 hours to film the dinner scene. Film was shot in Texas in midsummer. It was over 100 degrees (F) in the house, with the lighting, etc. One of greatest scenes in horror film history.
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yr right about that, mofo. the actress did a great job too. think i heard about how tuff it was for her: keeping up that level of terrified hysteria
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They kept having to re-shoot parts of it. She was pushed to the very edge. & it shows in the film. Everyone, the actors & the crew were exhausted. But they got it done. They made this film on $80,000, which for mainstream movies, would be the catering bill
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love the scene in the van too. it's a "don't pick up hitchhikers" PSA
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The opening scene is iconic: With corpses strewn around the graveyard and one is impaled atop a monument, in the mist, accompanied by the bizarre sound effects of Tobe Hooper. This is great cinema.
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