Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake??

Hmm the trailer doesn't look to bad actually, doesn't seem like a straight up remake though looks like they added some new elements to it.

As for the original TCM, well it was pretty disturbing in parts, but it was well funny too, some proper comedy moments.

In particular at the end where that trucker dude smacks leatherface with the spanner, and leatherface slips and cuts up his leg with the chainsaw. That was pretty hilarious and provided a good laugh.
 
as not being born when it came out and when being old enough to legaly watch it, i mostly looked forward to watching it MAINLY because of the cult status it achived & it being banned !
but i found it a dissapoinment & the only thing that scared me was the fact i was based on a true story
 
I think TCM was actually pretty good as far as horror film goes. Right from the outset, with the nutter getting picked up by the group. The first introduction to leatherface, with quick grab and the steel door slamming shut was very well done. The pure over the top gruesome violence (meat hooks etc) was all horrific.

Way ahead of its time.

I liked it. :D
 
There was very little violence in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it was one of those cut away at the last second and let the viewers imagination run riot movies.

The reason for its continued success/notoriety is the cinematography, the ethereal, otherworldly desert lanRABcape with it's bleached carcass motif juxtaposed with the dark claustrophobia and suffocating heat of the van which had the added discomfiture of having picked up a babbling lunatic en route. And, most chilling of all, Leatherfaces hellish workshop. Things are not quite right from the very first frame and the effect is a gradual build of tension that lets you know when things go bad they will go very, very bad.



Leatherface was inspred by a real life killer, the same one who inspired Norman Bates in Psycho (I can't remember his name but he was a farmer who killed passers by and tried to make a suit from their skin, he may also have inspired the Toothfairy in Silence Of The Lambs), the events in the movie are fictional.
 
I must admit to having a real love of trashy horror films, in fact the texas chainsaw massacre would be considered very slick compared to some of my favourites, Basket Case, Troma movies etc.
I'm annoyed they're remaking it as I love the original and they'll just ruin it.
It was based on Ed Gein. When the police found this guy, he was living in a house full of human remains, the carpet was thick with blood, heaRAB were nailed to the walls like ornaments and he had an armchair with REAL ARMS!
:confused:
 
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