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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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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it's incredible: way up there on my list of all time movie faves. amazing how much is going on, & there's truly "never a dull moment" seems like Hooper was never able to come close to being this great again, like Demme w/Silence of the Lambs
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"Lambs" was a Hollywood blockbuster. "Chainsaw" was made by a kid fresh out of film school. Hooper made it literally from scratch. Hooper was scooped up by Hollywood after this. He made "Poltergeist", which was a big hit. But "Chainsaw" has had more impact.
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i hear ya, but i love Lambs. of course, much credit must go to Thomas Harris for writing the story: that plot twist blew my mind (& a lot of other ppl's)
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Silence of the Lambs is great, Don't get me wrong. Hopkins was brilliant. And Levine as Buffalo Bill. Fuckin burnt into the collective consciousness of the world, now. Haha. "It puts the lotion on it's skin or else it gets the hose again."
