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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
This has got to be one of the most
terrifying, most widely known horror film of all time. I am speaking about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The film was shot on a low-budget (which makes it all of the better).
This movie proves that you do not need computer graphics to get a reaction out of people. The film quality is really, really grainy which makes it look al the more realistic.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on the vicious murders of Ed Gein. So yes, infact this movie is somewhat more realistic than most horror films.
The film opens up with a man's voice explaining the story. He is pretty scary sounding :) and pretty convincing.
The next we see is an average group of five teenagers driving in a van to visit Franklin and his sister's grandparent's house.
Pretty normal right!? They end up picking up a random hitchhiker. A BIG MISTAKE. The hitchhiker likes to take pictures and talk about the best way to kill cows for slaughtering.
If what he talks about is not strange enough he then proceeds to cut his hand :). If you haven't guessed it yet, the hitchhiker is part of the cannibalistic "family" that lives in Texas, of which Leatherface is a part of.
The kids make it to house safely. They look around the house, while two of them (a guy and girl) go off to swim in a pond.
The pond is all dried. But they notice a house that is close by so they check it out (what morons). Well, the guy enters the house first and walks towards a back room where the best butcher in town is waiting.
Yep, that's right Leatherface himself. He is stuck down by a sledgehammer to the head. He drops like a sack-of-bricks. The girl goes in looking for him. She goes into the backroom where she finds the guy hanging by meat hooks.
Leatherface comes running in and kills her off and stuffs her in the fridge. Another guy gets killed off soon after that.
This leaves Franklin the invalid and his sister. It starts to get late. They become worried because nobody has returned.
So they go in search of their friends. Franklin wants to go but his sister tells him to stay. But Franklin ends up going. A little time passes and out of nowhere comes....
Leatherface. Well Franklin is sacrificed because he is too hard to wheel around ;) But his sister gets away. A chase ensues between Leatheface and Franklin's sister.
Well, she ends up going to the local gas-station where they had goon earlier in the movie. Well, the guy that owns the place is a part of the "family".
I will not tell you the rest, but I will give you a clue of what to expect "a family dinner".
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Reviewed by: Big D
-"For five young friends, a typical summer afternoon drive becomes a terrifying nightmare"
-Two thumbs way up.
-Don't pick up hitchhickers.
-Vegetarians beware this film!!!
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