A girl and her disabled brother drive with their friends to see their old family home (stopping on the way to make sure their grandfather’s grave hasn’t been exhumed). The first act is the slow, painful build up.
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It’s one that appeals to your senses and your instincts far more than to your intellect or your emotions. It’s hard to make out clearly exactly what you’re looking at.Īnd the camera stays focused on this image for far, far too long. We pan out and down slowly and see another head, some hands, clothed legs wrapped around some sort of monument - two bodies, incomplete. Texas dawn and the camera focuses on the rotting head of another corpse against the rising sun. In the background a radio report tells of grave robbers in the area - it’s hard to make out the details, but you can tell there are unspeakable acts being related (as the report goes on you hear fractions of other stories, other acts of cruelty - mentioned, but not dwelt on - teenage girls killed, an 18 month old child chained up in an attic). Brief shots, lit by a camera flash, of parts of a rotting corpse - fingers, bones, dead eyes. The opening sequence of TCM gives a fair indication of what you can expect from the film to come:Ī black screen and the sound of something - digging perhaps - and breathing. But opinion is divided over whether or not it stands up now, regardless of influence, as a decent, scary horror movie. For its time, its budget and in its era, TCM was an exceptional accomplishment. Some credit it with the beginnings of the “final girl” plot device used in so many stalk and slash movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s, others say TCM is responsible for making the “masked killer” format so popular as a horror device - whether you accept these accolades or not, it’s easy to find numerous examples of films influenced by TCM. There’s little argument that TCM is an influential film. If you haven’t seen this film, it’s about time you did.īeware of spoilers in the following review. On the 26th October, Dark Sky Films will release this restored and re-mastered version of the original ’74 picture, packed with extras and remixed in stereo sound. But while I couldn’t be part of the initial furore surrounding this film, its significance didn’t escape me - even before I’d seen it, to me, it was the stuff of legends. I didn’t get a chance to see it until a number of years later, mainly because I wasn’t actually alive in 1974.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( TCM) was originally released in 1974, causing international controversy, but also widespread exhilaration. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) DVD Reviewġ974, Region 1 (NTSC), 83 minutes, Rated R