Texas Chainsaw Massacre...what a film

I really liked the original and the prequel released a few years back as I found that really did explain somethings for the original film .

It wasn't the scariest films, but it was completely unsettling, from the very start, the strong sunlight, vast open spaces, the rickety bus. Everything set up perfectly imo and it is a brilliant film which is more disturbing than scary but still a great horror
 
That's it exactly.
Whether it was Romero,Craven,Hooper or Carpenter when they were on form they were very good but it was the willingness to experiment with everything from atmosphere to camera angles and sound that made they're movies classic.

I watched the movie Hostel because of hype,knowing alittle about the plot (the premise was very interesting) and knowing there was lots of gore involved.
But Eli Roth who was hyped as one of the best around played completely by the book by using basic film school techniques and adding no real artistic creativity,no interesting camera shots.

I think the problem is the new breed of directors are trying nothing more then to emulate the legenRAB of horror but by doing that are not creating anything that stays in the head for days on end.
 
We did play Pass The Parcel and the prize was a "Severed Head"! :eek: (not really of course i made that bit up)


:D:D It got worse, we watched "Exorcist" after that! I have no idea what her parents were thinking, wierd thing is i wasnt scared, but i think at 11 you dont think as deep about things as you do when your older.
 
I think it's great!! And no the 2004 is not better imo.

This is not a 'normal' scary film, but it scares me alot more the 'normal' ones do.

One of the things I love about this movie is that in a lot of horror movies there always is a reason for how they (the murders) became like this(e.g. Norman Bates, his mother drown him crazy and kept doing it after she died! A classisc psychopath. )

But not Leatherface, there is not explanation as to why he does these things and the standard raison d'
 
i watched it last night ..the remake that is ..was okay ..the original i like better ...more grittier and the some of the imagery is just great .its my favourite film , though i do like the hills have eyes and wrong turn ...
 
The original, Halloween, and Dawn of the Dead are some of the seminal films of the 70's. I own all the TCM's and the original is still the best.
 
Imo the definitive account of Ed & his crimes is in Harold Schechter's book "Deviant - The shocking story of Ed Gein". The reason Ed dug up women was he was obsessed with the idea of ressurrecting his mother, through a mixture of his Christian beliefs and books he'd aquired on voodoo. He would practise this on the corpses he brought home, obviously with no success. I guess in the end he decided to turn himself into his mother, hence the "skin suit".
 
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