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Edwin neal texas chainsaw massacre12/28/2023 “After getting into the old-age makeup, John Dugan decided that he did not ever want to go through the process again, meaning that all the scenes with him had to be filmed in the same session before he could take the makeup off. Apparently the actor went full method with it, so his fellow actors thought he was a right penis. I liked the Franklin character, who started out sort of creepy and unsympathetic and then turned into some kind of voice of reason for the movie. Great stuff.Ī lot of the performances were, if massively over the top, actually pretty good. The bunch of kids driving out to a secluded cabin (in the woods, indeed), and all the rest. Lots of horror movie tropes in this one, which is fair since this is the one they all came from. I confess to ignorance, never having really seen much of his stuff (I hadn’t seen this before either, and I haven’t seen any of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre sequels and remakes), but this was definitely a nice build up to a shockingly abrupt and violent series of gory murders (that first appearance of Leatherface with the hammer, bwaaahahaha) and suitably horrible creepy-redneck cannibal family antics. Hooper creates – or so I’m told – great atmospheric and slow-build stories, particularly in his horror. Fahrenheit we were the only four people in the theatre who weren’t enjoying the movie ironically, but that might be uncharitable of him to say. The reboot-reboot?Īnyway, this is a true classic and highly enjoyable. My main take-away was that the crazy hitchhiker character looked suspiciously like James Franco. And check out the stuff about the mafia front that acted as original film distributor. The IMDB page linked above, and the Wikipedia page here, have a lot of fun info about the movie.įor example, John Larroquette (of Boston Legal fame, among many many other things) claimed that his payment for narrating the movie was a marijuana joint. This was really fun and – considering its age – an excellent film, very much a classic of the cinema and the genre and … okay, it was cheesy and hammily-acted at best and generally old-movie-looking, but it has held up really well. The swing of the hammer and the way the victim falls to the ground and starts shaking, is just plain brutal n unbearable to watch.We practically cosplayed as the Sawyer family. Ther is no gore or violence portrayed but jus the impact of the scene is brutal. The first kill is the most brutal n shocking. Also the scene wher Leatherface maniacally dances with his chainsaw is downright creepy. Some may find the dinner scene to b the most iconic n terrifying coz it gives the entire idea but i found the scene wher Leatherface keeps chasing the victim with a chainsaw to be pure nightmare n pure terrifying n intense stuff. Her constant jumping from the windows n repeated screaming n the trauma she goes thru made the movie more emotionally scary. Screaming from Marilyn Burns got on my nerves at times. The whole film has this dark n isolated look but the best part is nothing is shot in dim light or shaky cam or with flickering lights stuff. The opening statement and the way it is handled, all gav this movie a documentary feel n made it more terrifying. The dreadful, creepy n isolated atmosphere added more intensity. It has amazing direction n top not cinematography. What a terrific achievement inspite of the tiny budget. Revisited it recently on a dvd which I own. I first saw this in the late 80s on a vhs n found it to be very very disturbing.
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