4 me, this is a very close 2nd-best all-time horror film. Halloween is sane by comparison: cold, clinical, surgical, whereas TCM is brilliantly, & creatively, insane. This film is amazing #horrormovies
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (4 October 1974 (USA)) - imdb.com/title/tt007227
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One of my favorites. Made on a shoestring budget of some $80K. Has become a blueprint for a new genre in film making.
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I never get tired of watching it. So creative & funny. So strange
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Ironically, you never actually see anyone gored by a chainsaw. But you feel like you do. And, Tobe Hooper's sound effects are now burned into the world's collective consciousness. I've seen so many films literally lift his sound effects onto theirs.
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Franklin got killed w/the chainsaw. I suppose u mean u don't see the blood & guts coming out. There's so many great things. The skinny guy who lit the fire in the van, he was terrific. & u've got little things, like the guy sitting outside the gas station who's staring at the sun
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They all get chainsawed except the one gal. But you never actually see them getting chainsawed. But it seems like you do. It's masterful filmmaking. The guy who played Franklin should have gotten an Academy Award.
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yeah, he was funny. thee's so much to like. the body convulsing after being hit w/the sledge. the completely insane part of trying 2 help grandpa kill the girl, & what was up w/him? she was good 2. she had 2 scream hysterically 4 quite a while, & it was all believable
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Yes. The scene at the dinner table is a masterpiece of horror filmmaking. "Let grandpa do it. He was the best!" The scene at the end where Leatherface is doing pirouettes in the road with the chainsaw... pure genius. So many little gems in that film.
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We're on the same page. These horror films I consider to be overrated: The Exorcist & Nightmare on Elm St
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The opening scene of The Exorcist where the priest is on an archaeological dig in the Middle Eastern desert somewhere is the most compelling. I like the imagery & sound effects. After that, the film goes downhill. I've been watching old Karloff movies lately.
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The vast majority of the film takes place in a bedroom. It should have been a play, & it should have stayed on the stage
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You might be right. But the film is considered by many to be one of the all time greats. One of my personal favorites is Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Septimus Pretorius is brilliant. His interaction with the monster is sublime.
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