Texas Chainsaw Massacre...what a film

I watched this years ago on pirate video, it was pretty scary then, it seems more funny now.

If you scare easily morning I'll hold your hand. ;)
 
Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I'm watching this for the very first time now, aged 30 years and 3 days, and I'm like: :eek::cry:
 
The film is totally crap and poorly acted. they pickup that sick idiot hitchhiker who cuts himself with a knife. then they end up at an old house and get killed one by one (apart from sally). the only scene that is remotely scary is when the girl is crawling along the floor in a a room full of bones. the 2004 remake is better.
 
I've seen it before, but was flicking through parts of it as I found it quite disturbing to watch for some reason tonight, think it might be the loudness of the screams.

The remake lacks actual tension IMO; it's filled with heavy music and the sound of the chainsaw all the way through, which takes away what the original had - the original was blunt, it had the right camera angles and sound, it was like being sat in the house with them. The remake is just like the rest of the poor slasher "horror" films out today.
 
I would'nt call the original scary more like very disturbing.
I know it sounRAB terrible but I have always found it actually very funny which I think it was actually intended to be-half horror and part black comedy satire on 70's America and Texas.
But it's so raw,relentless and mostly authetic feeling because of the low budget it is a strange experience.

The remake I find much better to watch,not because it is even close to the brilliance of the original but because it's much easier to view by being mostly a generic Hollywood movie then the arty 1974 original.
 
I first saw this film when i was 11 at a mates birthday party!! Her parents got it out!!! I sat eating hotdogs whilst watching it, no wonder im a mixed up gal now :(
 
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