The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I remember going to see the original uncut version.....I don't know how I managed to sit there eating my popcorn, totally unfazed. :eek:

The spate of horrors around at that time must've numbed me. :o

Now I can't bear to watch any of those old horrors except through my fingers....and never alone. :eek:
 
I haven't seen the new version but when I saw the original I remember being kinda bored and thinking "Is this it?" Followed by a big session of routing for the psycho. And I'm some hardcore horror fan as some films do have me watching through the remote, mostly the psychological ones...the 15 rated original version of the Haunting [1963 Claire Bloom] scared me shitless the first few times I saw it....Even now I think it's creepy, I prefer the horror of what you don't see.
 
Oh gosh...I remember being creeped out by that film too.

I'm getting shivers now thinking how I felt. :eek:

I remember I was staying with my aunt for a while and she stays in a small village and her back garden faces onto a hill........It was so pitch black outside that I couldn't bear to walk into that kitchen unless the curtains were closed incase a ghostly or other figure appeared in front of me in the window. :eek:
 
I just watched the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

It was okayish, but it wasn't really that good.

I prefer the original.
I think the original although flawed, had some excellent scenes.
None of which were reprised in the remake.

It was as though the people who made the remake thought about what they felt made the original successful, and just seemed to focus on meat hooks all the time.
And that baby subplot was just crap, and only seemed to be there to provide a sort of happy ending.
The original was very bleak, and ended very bleak.

The hammer and bucket scene wasn't present, and neither was the 'dinner party'.
The hammer and bucket scene is what makes good horror for me. When I saw that in the original it was very disturbing.
Scenes that are supposed to scare me, or attempts to use blood and gore to shock in standard run of the mill modern horror films don't do anything for me. They are often use standard setups and have become cliches of each other. I like to see something that I don't expect to see.

The original just seemed much better to me. The remake just appeared to be cashing in on the name and was a completely different story.
It had the flashy production values of a modern horror movie, but for me it had no soul.
I didn't real feel much tension in this film. Things happened that just felt predictable.
 
Alrightmate.....you are so spot on with your observations on the remake.

I know exactly what you mean about the bleakness starting and ending.

That's what was so damned disturbing about the original.

The original TCM back in those days was like the 'shock horror' surrounded by the Blair Witch crap...and that was crap in comparison.

However, the almost unprofessional documentary theme of the first TCM was what gave it its edge IMO and also the scenes that they decided to cut in the secondary making of it were so crucial to its disturbance that made the first what it was.....i.e. disturbing.

So you are spot on with that Alrightmate. ;)
 
It was obviously made for audiences who wouldn't watch the original but would watch newer, much tamer horror flicks like Scream. As a 'modern' horror film it's quite good, you just have to push the original out of your mind.
 
I haven't seen it but apparently it's one of the most grusome films but most of it is psychological because you don't actually see any gore, it's just what you think is happening, it looks good though :)

That's what is said about the original film by the way
 
When i were a kid TCM was banned in the uk, so later when it was eventually released here i watched it thinking this is gonna be a shockingly good film. I thought it was total pants utter rubbish. I went to watch the remake when it was released thinking that would allso be rubbish but it was alot better i thought, and Jessica Biel was in it that helped lol.
 
(This is what i put on IMDB)

It was just plain awful.

I think whoever it was who made the remake must have looked at the original and went "Yeah, Meat-hooks, that works maaaan, lets put LOARAB of meat-hooks in and that will make ours better, and like wasnt it right scary when the girl was getting chased, lets chase her MORE and then it will be better than the original. Oh, and dont forget scary music, lets totally overdo the scary music then ours will be loaRAB better"

And what was with the toddler she resuced? Where DID that suddenly come from? It was almost an afterthought...

It was just A. N. Other slasher film - yaaaaawwnnn
 
Im guessing u mean the TCM:The beginning one..

If you do, it doesnt come out here in cinemas for a few weeks... its either the 6th october or the 13th.. but i dont know which one.
 
The original TCM was a horror classic.

However, the remake was awful. The first ten minutes were decent and set up the film for what could have been something good, but then it all went rapidly downhill and decended into a typical Hollywood horror film - all style and no substance. Scary? Far from it. Dull? Absolutly.

I will check out TCM:The Beginning when it is released, but I am not expecting much from it.
 
i enjoyed the remake of TTCM. there was many flaws and dodgy bits.. but i enjoyed it.. nowhere near the best film ever.. but enjoyable to sit down and watch with a few beers nevertheless!
 
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