The texas chainsaw massacre

My fav horror movie get over it!

 

Based on a true story

 

Actually it was filmed on the day it says it happened so they got away with saying that, but after the movie was filmed and out for awhile someone actually copied everything in the movie and killed a bunch of people in an old farm house in texas. So technically it was a true story after all was said and done! Haha!

 

how you know??

actually it was based on a guy who actually killed woman. I'm going to look for the site.

 

Toby hooper the director was inspired by the serial killer ed gein of pain field wisconsin he killed and dug up a couple ladies and wore there skin as a female skin suit he wanted to be a woman he also made a belt out of nipples and bowls out of skulls and tried to bring them back from the dead while reading nazi books he gutted an old lady like a deer in his basment. The movie psycho and silence of the lambs was also based on him. Yes i know but im talking about the copycat killer the remake of texas chainsaw massacre was based on.

 

How many of these did they make though?:biker:

 

a couple i think

 

I was happy to see the whine ass in the wheelchair meet his end.

Damn he was annoying.

 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was actually the first film to get away with saying based on a true story, when it wasn't really at all.

Ed Gein, the 'serial killer' that inspired it was mostly a grave robber, and the only similarity to the events in the movie was that he liked to make clothes out of them (inspiring the dead skin mask)


Anyways, my thoughts on the movie(s):
Original: sucky, boring, but the dinner scene is insanely creepy.
Remake: pretty awesome, great action, two or three mentally scarring scenes, one of the only horror movies I really like

 

There's something about 70's horror films, this one in particular, that just seem kind of magical. I don't know if it's the look of the film or what, but TCM still scares the shit out of me. If you really watch the original - it's relatively bloodless by today's standard, but it does have atmosphere. I think in order for a horror movie to really be good it has to have an atmosphere of isolation throughout. That movie still gets to me - it's part fear and part something else I can't quite put my finger on except to say that it's similar to the feeling that you get when I see the girl in the red dress for the second time in Schindler's list - I guess disgust and a kind of sadness. It's like you're witnessing the depths of a human's capacity for evil. In the case of TCM you're seeing the complete perversion of the idea of family and I guess that's what all good horror does - it takes something familiar and creates and ugly and exteme distortion of it.

I think the first remake was good - it definitely captured the essence of the original, but it's a different film - it just didn't have enough of that dry, hot isolated Texas booney feel. I think Wolf creek is a good contemporary example of what I'm trying to describe. I'd love to see a sequel to that.

 

http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/texaschainsaw.php


I remember seeing this longgg time ago...
He is a real serial killer. So who every negatived posted me click the link

 

I always felt the same way about those 70's films. A truly great horror film must have that brooding feel and even the old photography of the film adds to it.

Haven't watched TCM in a long time but it was one of my favorites growing up. Gonna have to watch it again sometime

 

He's the most famous serial killer besides Son of Sam -- but the movie still has shit all to do with that mild-mannered Wisconsin killer and their claim was pure exploitative gimmick.

That claim was the only reason this indie flick got any attention - and it forever changed movie marketing (for the worse).

I've just never understood how a boring story about some uninteresting loser teens for the first half of the film sets up a "brooding feel".

70s horror sucks; the decade's exploitation and action thrillers are much better. Similar atmosphere, similar tension, cool characters; no boring first half.

 

Got jokes, eh? The 70's was the best decade for horror. While I do like the exploitation films of that day a little better, most of the good horror came out in the 70's. Far better than the lifeless, CGI ridden borefests of today.

The idea of the impending doom of those "uninteresting loser teens", the fucked up events leading up to it and watching them getting killed off one by one, is what makes it a good movie. Nothing boring about anticipation.

 

Lmao got jokes

 

I didn't say modern horror's any better. (Though, most of the horror I like is modern - I think it's the worst movie genre of any decade)

How, though? It's not tense suspension -- it's boredom, waiting for action.

I don't care at all about the characters, so why do I care if they die? Fuck, most horror movies, I hate the characters so much that I'm rooting for the killer.

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween (either) are prime examples of this. The characters are whiny, annoying, slutty, prudish archetypes with nothing real to make me connect to them.
That's a prime reason of why the remake is better (aside from the pacing, which would be the main reason). At least three of the main characters are likable, that's probably a genre-record.

 

I see your point but personally, I rarely care about the victims' personality. A lot of the times, I wouldn't want to connect with them because they are, what you say "whiny, annoying, prudish", so when those characters do get killed, it makes their deaths all the more sweeter to watch. As sick as that sounds.

Halloween is more of a teen-scream so those qualities in characters are typical. While I do enjoy some of those movies, those aren't what I would consider dark or brooding. To clarify, I was mostly referring to some of the Italian and Spanish films of those days, as well as others from that time.

Also, I wasn't implying that you were saying the modern films were any better. I was just making a general comparison. To each their own though, I just can't get into a whole lot of newer movies, aside from a few. Most of the horror I've watched is from the 70's and early 80's.

 

I know I'm getting old , but I think the horror movies of today suck goat balls . Not even worth watching to me . T.c.s.m. was a classic , and I have to say the remakes of it today are pretty good as well . The seventies and eighties were a great time for music and movies . And who can forget the exorcist ? That creepy little bitch , still sends chills up my spine . I remember when it came out , and the movie credits said it was a true story too . It was , but it was a boy not a girl , and wasn't in Georgetown . It was in the Midwest i think . Amityville horror another one that wasn't real , and was said to be . Murders happened , but the haunting after were bogus .

T.C.M. , is great too . I love the old movies .

 

i love the film. something about the sleezy gritty grimey 70s and 80s horror films. they make me laugh and puke at the same time.

 

in my honest opinion as good as any horror can get in every which way imaginable most especially considering this is from nearly 40 years ago that its stood and held the test of time speaks volumes

fascinating characters(aside from the eteranally annoying franklin) and real life stories behind this movie

tobe hooper with all due respect to his body of work this is his best movie that truly brought to life a definitive and nightmarish vision largely helped by daniel pearls first rate photography

and than there is the iconic imposing pathetically monsterous leatherface in all his glory

9.5/10