The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Commentary

[@TwistedSage]

Simone: "Ew there's like an arm on the chair" So disappointed in George for not saying it's an armchair.

[@lionelraoul]

George needs to do better.

[@UnderTheBlue]

he's slipping

[@anieltavares7991]

@@UnderTheBluehe was tired

[@handigeharrie9550]

@@anieltavares7991 Nah thats just how his eyes stand 🤣

[@falloutfan2502]

"It's a hand grenade"...

[@mparvin77]

Leatherface sitting by the window was described by Tobe Hooper as the monster realizing he’s in trouble. He can’t figure out where the hell all these kids are coming from. Brilliant.

[@AwkwardKyle]

"Officer, we have been havin' a DOOZY of a day"

[@GarrettJayChristian]

​@@AwkwardKyle Underrated reference 👍

[@jerbil9353]

"Was this film before the survival girl trope?" Arguably, it began it.

[@shalashaska828]

Fun fact: Edwin Neal who played the Hitchhiker had just returned from serving in Vietnam before filming Texas Chainsaw Massacre and has stated that he’d rather be back in Vietnam than ever have to shoot that dinner scene again

[@Bluesit32]

It was hell. They had been filming well over twenty four hours. It was blazing hot with all the lights (to say nothing of Texas's natural heat) made all the worse by the blacked out windows to simulate night. The meat on the table was very real and VERY spoiled by the end. It was so hot that the fake blood they intended to use when slicing Sally's finger turned into a thick gel. Completely unusable. So they just sliced her finger.

[@dicktrickle741]

He doesn't have the body of a serviceman, was he a prisoner of war?

[@Scallycowell]

Twenty seven hours straight in a farm house with no air conditioning in the dead of summer with the windows covered in trash bags to keep out the sunlight. Marilyn Burns said that her laughter in the final shot of the movie was them being told that they’d have to reshoot a previous scene because the footage was unusable. That entire production was grueling and it shows.

[@Scarshadow666]

Oof! Speaks volumes when he said that... 0_0

[@davidanderson1639]

Edwin Neal was awarded a Bronze Star for valour during his service in Vietnam in 1969.

[@jamesoblivion]

A lot of the later movies make Leatherface into some kind of vengeful sadist, but in the original, he kills mostly out of panic. People keep coming, and he's been given orders not to let anyone in. He clearly has the mind of a child, in the huge, hulking body of a monster. He's not malevolent (though his family certainly is), he's just scared.

[@gswithen]

50 years later and this masterpiece still does its job with almost no gore. What's in our head is much worse than what we see on screen.

[@sardonicsisyphus]

you think about gore that's worse than movies? I sure don't.... How much worse scenarios do you think and dream about? you may need psychiatic help if you think and dream about worse gore than in movies. How much worse gore than in movies is the stuff you dream and have fantasies of? Have you ever acted on your depraved phantasmagoria? Hoe many times? That's deplorable.

[@lukebarton5075]

The incessant sound of the chainsaw and screaming also help a great deal in adding to the stress and disturbing feel.

[@johnmaynardable]

That's what I've always thought too. I think the girl on the hook is the worst thing.

[@TrumanSparx]

Thanks for reminding me how old I am.

[@maskedman1337]

The soundscape and low-fi quality is soooooo key to the terror.

[@moxieone6816]

Her pulse never got above 85… -Doctor Chilton voice

[@JRush374]

Confirmed psychopath

[@jculver1674]

Simone is a sociopath, confirmed.

[@minnesotajones261]

...even when he ate her tongue...

[@fynnthefox9078]

Desensitization?

[@NikkieTwix]

Bravo 👏😂

[@dokidaddy1056]

Here's another fun fact: In that scene where they cut her finger to give grandpa the blood - They tried the effect quite a few times and it just wasn't working. Finally the girl said "Just go ahead and cut it." so THAT blood was real.

[@wozing]

27:43 Texas Chainsaw Class-as-it-were The reason they hopped out of the truck is because it was an 18-wheeler. It's _heavy_ and trying to get that moving again is gonna take time. If it were a smaller vehicle, you could floor it. But with the killer already attacking your door, I wouldn't risk taking the time to get that bad boy up to speed.

[@donbergeson6771]

The woman that played the blonde who survived, she played Linda Kasabian in the awesome Helter Skelter movie about the Manson Family and did a good job in that.

[@NeutronDance]

That's one of the brilliances of this movie is you don't see a lot of gore. Sure there's messed up stuff going on in the house but you don't see the hook impalement, you don't see the chainsaw slicing. It's up to you to fill in the blanks.

[@ScreamingScallop]

And it's still a thousand times more disturbing--and memorable--than any moment from the '80s latex-and-Karo-syrup-and-random-implement subgenre (let alone the later CGI resurgence) because these are interesting characters, even if one doesn't necessarily like some of them. There's no need for a splatter effect every ten minutes to keep the viewer awake.

[@minnesotajones261]

Yeah, you "see" it in your mind, like the chainsaw scene in Scarface. You don't see the gore, it's only implied.

[@billr3724]

Yeah, it’s the details that make things more effective. Before the hook impalement, when Pam is slowly approaching the house calling for Kirk, we are given a lingering view of her bare back. This image is a foreshadowing of what’s to come.

[@TwistedSage]

Little Miss Sunshine and Texas Chainsaw Massacre would be a wild double-feature.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

That’s an incredible idea.

[@jculver1674]

Two movies about dysfunctional families living in the American Southwest.

[@todd8398]

@@jculver1674 And both have a van that has issues running as a plot point.

[@desisdosis473]

Little Miss Massacre

[@omegashinra7672]

Juuuust gonna turn my headphones down slightly before Marilyn Burns starts screaming up a storm and gives me Tinnitus. Girl has some serious lungs on her.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Had. Unfortunately she passed away some years ago from a prolongued desease.

[@tomkapa]

I love how KZbin allows a guy getting run over by a big rig but not a gash from a chainsaw 30 seconds later😂

[@rileytruax766]

your aware that simone and george do the editing not youtube right? 😂

[@tomkapa]

@@rileytruax766 No shit, but KZbin is the reason they have to.

[@rileytruax766]

@@tomkapa but if youtube didnt see it cause it was censored how do you know they are not ok with it?🥲

[@JohnnyUtah15]

There are other reactions from other reactors that don’t cover up a majority of scenes that CineBinge does. I think that they’re playing it safe since they don’t want to get any takedowns and have to re-edit and re-upload videos.

[@rileytruax766]

@@JohnnyUtah15 this is true censoring movies for reactions is not required its just so they dont get age restricted

[@thomassavage-hx6ux]

This movie is famous in film for breaking the unwritten darkness rule in horror movies. before that at least in larger horror movies all deaths and kills occurred at night giving audiences a sense of safety when in daylight. Leatherface is wearing makeup because it is a woman's face he is wearing and they are having dinner, so he dressed up. That dinner scene is a direct inspiration to the meal scene in Resident evil 7.

[@johannesbowers7467]

Well... not quite. That's Franklin's face he's wearing, but as the "Team mom" he dressed up to host the dinner.

[@thomassavage-hx6ux]

@@johannesbowers7467 interesting, and i thought it was the same face all the time.

[@nathanwilliams9866]

@@johannesbowers7467 Franklin, was that the guy in the wheelchair?

[@johannesbowers7467]

@@nathanwilliams9866 yup.

[@adgato75]

Eh, there are some examples before this. Stephen King talks about "daylight horror" in his nonfiction book "Dane Macabre"

[@dreambrother82]

i saw this @ Midnight screening in the 80’s & a Theater Worker started a chainsaw as we were exiting. I will never recover.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

What an experience.

[@dainfarley9057]

That’s committed to his job at the cinema lol

[@sqwashsilver]

Leatherface was just defending his home from intruders

[@thomasknash]

Castle doctrine.

[@Provoses]

@@thomasknash DONT MESS WITH TEXAS

[@Smokie_666]

@@Provoses For real!

[@fynnthefox9078]

Yeah, he's just being abused and manipulated by the family he was raised by.

[@1fuglyNDN]

It's Not the BOY's Fault, That Illness (lepercie got in his head), Protect Your Inbred Family... ❤

[@sca88]

RIP Marilyn Burns, one of the first Final Girls.

[@VFLPlus]

In the U.K. this did not get a release classification from the national film censorship board. So permission to screen it devolved to the various local municipalities. Only one allowed it to be screened - the Borough of Westminster in London. So it was shown in one cinema off Leicester Square. A bunch of us went to see it. When we came out at the end every audience member was given a little badge (I think in the USA it’s called a button) to pin on our jackets. Said “I survived the Texas Chainsaw Massacre”. I kept mine for many years. But don’t know where it is now 🙁.

[@Spud_Lilliywhite]

Simone is ice cold. I reminded of the SOTL quote. "His pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue."

[@Scarshadow666]

Seeing how Franklin was left behind a lot and had a hard time getting around in his wheelchair really shows how far most Disability Laws/Acts have come since the '70s (this movie coming out before a lot of current disability laws came out would explain a lot)!

[@walkinglootchest1251]

15:08 I like that George pointed this out, when I took Speech in college we had to do opening arguments to defend movie villain characters and I chose Leather Face and my argument was that Leather Face was just protecting his home from multiple people just waltzing into his home uninvited, his methods to defend may be more brutal, but he defended his home with the means available to him at the time and that it's no different than someone grabbing a kitchen knife to defend themselves and that this was the result of a completely understaffed local police department and though his methods were more harsh than what any normal person would go to; with the amount of people he's experience walking into his home over the years, it would eventually break anyone and then I argued for a plea of insanity. Lol

[@TrevorJamesMcNeil]

The origins of the Final Girl trope reach all the way back to Psycho. In terms of slasher movies as they are known now, it is either this or the original Black Christmas which came out the same year. Both Black Christmas and Chainsaw Massacre also have much better claims to being the "first slasher movie" than Halloween despite what many morons still say.

[@christopherwall2121]

I think the Cook might be one of my favorite horror villains. I love how he never loses his folksy Southern charm even after he's revealed as a cannibal who cooks people and sells their meat. I love how he's way less physically intimidating than Leatherface or the Hitchhiker, but has them cowering from his every rebuke. And I love how he treats the whole murder-cannibalism thing as some embarrassing and inconvenient fact of life. He's great.

[@Valkonnen]

Fun Fact: In 1974, there wasn't anything like "Special Makeup Effects" and to have an ancient old man makeup would have required hiring Dick Smith, who had just turned Dustin Hoffman old for the film "Little Big Man". That would have started at around ten grand so it was out of the question. So they approached a Texas Plastic surgeon who had never done prosthtic makeup but was trained as a sculptor to make features in Medical school. So he created a 5 piece prosthetic makeup for the actor who was only in his 20's at the time. A trained prosthetic artist like myself would know that in order to make prosthetics look real , you have to add washes of red and violet in order to make it look alive. In this case, since he didn't know this, the makeup looked almost white, yet it worked to make you think that this guy was so old that he had very little blood in him.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

He was 19 😁

[@ThreadBomb]

Special makeup effects have been a thing in movies since Nosferatu (1922).

[@Valkonnen]

@@ThreadBomb I've been a special makeup artist for over 35 years. "Theatrical Makeup";as seen in Nosferatu was not special makeup effects. I guess I that you don't know the difference, but then you don't get paid to do it. The very first film to list "special makeup illusions" was the Exorcist.

[@Wraiven22]

It’s crazy how little this movie ACTUALLY shows. We just fill in all the blanks in our heads!

[@jamesoblivion]

When Leatherface cuts Sally's finger, the prop knife wasn't working. It was over 100 degrees, so the fake blood kept gumming up the tube behind the blade that was supposed to trickle it out. They'd been shooting for an insane number of hours, and Gunnar Hansen just kind of broke, and without telling anyone, he removed the cellphone tape from the blade of the knife, and cut Marilyn Burns's finger for real. The making of this movie was genuinely insane. During the dinner scene, everything on the table started to rot in the intense heat, and some crew members had to take breaks to vomit.

[@jculver1674]

Imagine how crazy this was for people to see in 1974, when these kinds of horror movies were practically nonexistent.

[@ThreadBomb]

There had been splatter movies in the 60s, most notably by director Gordon Herschell Lewis. They were a lot more explicit than Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Titles include: Blood Feast, Color Me Blood Red, The Gruesome Twosome, The Wizard of Gore, and The Gore Gore Girls.

[@johnmc3862]

Yes but this isnt really splatter. A lot of the horror is implied.

[@sweiland75]

The Final Girl trope began with the 1974 Canadian horror Black Christmas, which set the rules for numerous horror movie tropes still used, today.

[@skitz319]

They came out they came out the same day.

[@kharnblackfeathers6625]

I picked up a hitchhiker in new orleans here 2 months ago. It was a lost drunk college bro and he literally brought up this movie on his 2 mile ride back to Tulane.

[@alejandrorey359]

I watched this back in 2004. I was 9 years old and I borrowed the VCD from a classmate. Imagine watching this and your mother and father walks in and it turns into a family movie night. 😂

[@anthonydawson8080]

Oh man VCD! If you’re in the US that’s crazy. Very short time frame where people watched VCDs

[@sweetkiss119]

@@anthonydawson8080never heard of it? Only vhs? What is it

[@alejandrorey359]

@@sweetkiss119 Video Compact Disc. Basically the predecessor of DVDs. You couldn't fit a whole movie on one disc so you have at least two discs. I remember having LoTR on VCD. It took up three discs. 😂

[@alejandrorey359]

@@anthonydawson8080 I'm from the Philippines. VCDs stayed for quite some time here since the jump to DVDs was quite expensive for a while. Then one day they're basically giving it away for dirt cheap.

[@StCerberusEngel]

As if there wasn't enough grit in this movie, now you have VCD compression... XP

[@maskedman1337]

Having lived in Texas for decades: Drive around rural areas during the hottest parts of summer, when everyone is slightly dazed from the non-stop heat, and this film makes much more sense. The unrelenting heat messes with your mindset.

[@robertstuart480]

"Roadkill Cafe" is a joke/meme, but not an actual place. The poster we had of the menu in our local gas station had the tag-line, "You kill it, We grill it."

[@prollins6443]

I had that poster growing up. Specials of the day included "Rack of raccoon" and "Slab of lab" among other roadkill puns!

[@sinnerforlife2827]

This movie it’s a masterpiece!! It’s an experience!! Love this movie!!!

[@CarlosAlexDanger]

The guy shaking on the ground after getting struck by Leatherface is a great touch. A modern movie would just throw buckets of gore around and call it scary

[@ThreadBomb]

A modern movie probably wouldn't use gore because that would lose it its PG-13 rating.

[@Abcdefg-tf7cu]

@@ThreadBomb What? Most horror movies, modern and retro, are rated R.

[@tylernorwood5602]

Leatherface is definitely an interesting slasher villian icon that isn't a typical sadist. Described by the director, Tobe Hooper, as having a child-like mentality and intellectually disabled; only killing on behalf of his family and his warping perceived threats, the former which mistreats him and spin whatever lies to normalize their actions. A byproduct of evil.

[@thoso1973]

""What did we just watch?!" Welcome in the club 😄

[@todd8398]

Wait till they get to the fourth movie!

[@fynnthefox9078]

Art.

[@elijahvincent985]

Fun fact: Tobe Hooper was originally aiming for a PG rating on account of serving as a warning message for teenagers to avoid hitchhikers. The initial rough cut was given the X rating (the rating before NC-17) instead for the violence. So about 20-30 minutes were trimmed out (footage only exists as a silent film), and almost none of which contained extra gore or acts of violence that warranted the X rating in the first place. After trimming the footage, Tobe Hooper conceded with an R rating that he didn't want, but needed if the film was going to have any chances of being successful. While the idea of warning teenagers sounds noble,when you consider that the corpses in the opening shot and the bones in the living room were all REAL because it was cheaper to use real bodies instead of prosthetic props created exclusively for the film and the amount of production difficulties that clearly factored into the gritty aesthetic of the final cut, it's a wild wonder that he even suggested the PG rating in the first place.

[@Jessie_james1985]

I'm convinced those heart monitors don't work now lol

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

If you were to believe it, the intro and outro were the s scariest part.

[@ThreadBomb]

The movie doesn't have much in the way of jump scares or suspense.

[@brobbus0-dl6vl]

@@ThreadBomb it literally has one of the best jump scares in movie history.

[@jamesmonroeiii]

@@ThreadBombWhat are you on about?

[@Bluesit32]

​@@jamesmonroeiiiI think they mean when Leatherface leaps out at Franklin at night. That was fairly sudden and loud.

[@frithislord6159]

"LOOK WHAT YOUR BROTHER DID TO THE DOOR!!!" That line cracks me up 😂

[@joshuayeager3686]

One of the scariest films of all time and practically no blood used in the movie to convey it. A true testament to the film

[@rubyriches]

Fun fact: 13:06 The room full of animal & human bone & carcasses furniture was not only real bones but filmed in 45C(120F) heat; the smell was unconscionable & the heat so delirium inducing, the actor playing Leather face believed he genuinely had to kill the lead actress... 25:55 Let alone Leather face's actor screaming due genuinely believing the chainsaw falling on his legs missed the protection & was now sawing through his legs. 26:06 Hence the lead actress' elated breakdown in the penultimate shot believed to be not entirely acting..

[@OrphanCrippler69bb]

can you timestamp the scene? I wanna see it

[@rubyriches]

@@OrphanCrippler69bb Timestamps added.

[@pillboss1987]

I have a shirt from Roadkill Cafe in Sielegman Arizona along historic Route 66. “You kill it, we grill it” is the slogan. It’s just a gimmick, obviously they don’t cook actual roadkill. It was cool spot, a little old west front with some wagons. The whole town was obsessed with the movie “Cars” a lot of murals of Lightning McQueen.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

That’s funny.

[@cixelsyd40]

They are obsessed with cars because there is a very loose connection between Seligman and Radiator Springs.

[@XeonAlpha]

I noticed Simone’s heart rate dropped at the beginning when she starts petting her kitty. Definitely an emotional support animal.

[@MrYin90210]

He was trying to write "Yo, im'a do some killings now y'all" on the van. And he would've gotten away with it too if not for those pesky kids.

[@1fuglyNDN]

¡Mr. Jerkins, The Old Faire Grounds Keeper! 😢

[@falloutfan2502]

lol

[@blabla48076]

One of the most terrifying movies of all time, because it's so raw and realistic (because of the documentary style). One of my all-time favorites!

[@CrashOverride35]

That tracking scene with the first girl (in the short shorts) walking toward the house is so iconic. The clothing they wore inspired the wordrobe for the movie X.

[@NikkieTwix]

Eli Roth recreates it in Cabin Fever

[@d4mdcykey]

Been in the south my whole life, George, never heard of an actual roadkill cafe, but I will admit I would be little surprised if there really was some of them in more remote areas.

[@MrManiacKid]

As a tribute to the late Tobe Hooper, I highly recommend checking out his 1979 two-part television miniseries Salem's Lot, based on the novel by Stephen King.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Good idea.

[@SilentBob731]

That scared the crap out of me when I was a kid (though I suppose six was probably a bit young to watch it). Great suggestion.

[@fredfredburger5150]

the kid...at the window 😨

[@MrManiacKid]

@@fredfredburger5150 I know. Good ol' Ralphie Glick.

[@SilentBob731]

@@fredfredburger5150 "Let me in! It's OK, Mark, I'm your friend." 😱

[@bryanaragon6679]

An interesting fact, is that Gunnar Hansen's performance as Leatherface wasn't just about donning a mask and carrying on a chainsaw; No, but the director of the film Tobe Hooper gave the actor free rein to interpret his role as he wanted and gave Leatherface the personality he desired. Because of this, Hansen chose that Leatherface would be a mentally disabled and speechless man; This is why before filming his scenes the actor visited an asylum several times in order to learn the movements and behaviors of the admitted patients. 18:56 I always found quite fascinating or interesting on how Leatherface relentlessly chases his victims on all the films. He always keep running, despite that he is a big powerhouse guy. Mainly this is due that Leatherface operates under a different psychological state than his victims. Since his actions are mainly driven by a combination of adrenaline and a distorted perception of reality. Which allows him to push his physical limits without the same exhaustation than his terrified victims. 22:07 More like the tormentor, his more like the one who is responsable for the actions of them. Drayton although he is the older brother of Bubba and Nubbins. He is also trying to be like a father replacement figure for Bubba.

[@brianwashines2645]

The three men represented to me the three versions of Ed Gein. The gas station owner was the odd hermit guy who people sometimes saw in public when he had to go to town every once in a while; the hitchhiker, on the other hand, was the Ed Gein who went out at night, robbing graves for parts; Leatherface was Ed Gein in his house of horrors where Gein had suits made from human skin, which Gein wore attempting to "revive" his domineering mother after she'd been dead for years. There's a lot of apocryphal and documented history and myth around Gein that resonated for years with filmmakers. Tobe Hooper was a kid hearing all these stories about it, since it made national headlines in its day. Hooper took all of it and created a horror masterpiece.

[@Abcdefg-tf7cu]

I interpreted it to be about factory farming and the meat industry. Each member of the family is a different farm animal. Leatherface is a cow/bull, the cook is a pig, and grandpa is a defeathered chicken. The only hole in my theory is the grave robber guy, but he might represent rats or other pests that live in barns. He certainly seems very skittish and rat-like to me.

[@henriquejambu]

5:54 George you were on point! Sally, from this movie, was the first Final Girl!!!

[@joshkresnik6402]

“Who will survive, and what will be left of them?” My god, that tagline is fantastic

[@sammylane21]

When Leatherface just pops up on Franklin was the best jump scare. Feserved his death.

[@danielgibson7948]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a must watch. Tobe Hooper's take on sequels and the 80's. Totally different movie and lots of fun.

[@jdnaz1288]

Agree 100%, I love how insane & fun that movie is!

[@aiolaaldebaran6522]

Every time I watch a Texas chainsaw massacre film I’m always reminded of “the hills have eyes” (2006) a good watch

[@7thsygn]

"Fun" fact: "Leather face" is based on the same real life serial killer/weirdo as Silence of the Lambs, and Psycho- Ed Gein.

[@fynnthefox9078]

Ed Gein's not a serial killer. He only killed one person. Gein is more well-known as a grave robber.

[@deadbynightupbylunch]

@@fynnthefox9078 He murdered 2 women but yes textbook definition he’s a murderer and Grave robber. Serial killers are people who’ve murdered at least three people within a month.

[@BillyBong]

Yea, him and manson get too much "credit" for serial killings. ​@@fynnthefox9078

[@anthonydawson8080]

Ed Gein did rob graves and do interesting things with what he kept..

[@jesses5463]

​@@deadbynightupbylunch Regarding the time frame of a month that's not true. Actually, the opposite is more true. There are generally gaps of time between the killings as serial killings are crimes of opportunity so the more successful serial killers will tend to wait until the time is right to strike.

[@gordondafoe3516]

Simone, "'That's the creepiest place I ever saw". George, "You've never been to Edmonton?" Too funny. Back in the day, anyone from Eastern Canada called Edmonton "Deadmonton".😆

[@PhilospherStoned]

you are indeed correct Simone, the house in the TCM game is supposedly a 1:1 of the house from this movie which is pretty awesome lol

[@terricooper3678]

Greatest cut from Simone exclaiming "OMG" into the TEMU add..."ooh, ooh, TEMU"😂

[@lordtrigon1733]

Pungent film, you can practically smell it through the screen. Perfect movie.

[@synthetic240]

The 2003 remake is just as good, just as scary, but with better effects. It also has a fantastic performance from R. Lee Ermey. I'm not a big fan of how heavy the color grading was, but it was the style at the time. Tbh, it's my favorite TCM movie.

[@ParkerLongbaugh]

The guy who does the narration is the most famous actor in the movie.

[@torpedoboy4]

John Larroquette of "Night Court"

[@Bluesit32]

And he did the voice over for a bag of weed.

[@chri2453]

He was in Boston Legal.

[@StCerberusEngel]

@@torpedoboy4 "Dan-Dan" Fielding. :)

[@GapToothBitch]

The bad guy in Ritchie Rich​@@torpedoboy4

[@jamesoblivion]

John Dugan, who played Grandpa, was 18 years old. He was from Indiana, and returned there sometime after. When I lived in Indiana, he was waiting tables at the TGIFriday's in the mall. By the accounts I heard, he was something of an alcoholic.

[@McPh1741]

Simone: "Can you image finding this." This made me think of Danny Rolling, aka The Gainesville Ripper from 1990. He's known as the man who inspired the movie "Scream". On one occasion, he decapitated a female victim. Then he posed her body sitting upright on the edge of her bed and placed her head on a shelf facing her body from across the room. He did it purely for shock value.

[@GatorScribe726]

I was living in Gainesville at that time. It was damn scary. I was still living with my parents. My bedroom had double glass doors to access a porch. Even if they were locked, you could still open them. That didn’t put me at ease.

[@parthoroy9141]

Me too (a bit later) - Class of 1999 We had a mural on the 34th Street wall dedicated to the victims

[@paul-o1]

Nice, just randomly checked for Texas chainsaw massacre and this popped up nine hours ago. One of the best horror movies of all time. Not many horrors can do what this move did.

[@robcoz98]

One of my favourite moments is after "Leatherface" kills Jerry (the Disco Stu looking guy), just that brief moment of him just breaking down/freaking out and taking a moment to ponder is a great way of making him human. It really opens a lot to be interpreted if "Leatherface" is essentially just trying to protect his home and family from strangers in a way

[@NobuhikuObayashi]

lol disc stu

[@davidpoole5595]

He wonders Where are these damn kids coming from?????

[@todd8398]

I appreciate the Disco Stu reference. I also really like this scene, when LF rushes Jerry, the high-pitched scream Jerry gives make interesting contrast to LF's "bear roar".

[@Valkonnen]

You read that completely wrong. he was upset because he thought that More intruders would come and freeaked out.

[@ThreadBomb]

I don't think he's "defending his home"; it's just that his instinctive reaction to strangers is to kill them.

[@andriesoliviier9529]

First: I love you guys. Second: my office is downwind of the biggest abattoir in South Africa, so I'm treated to a full olfactory horror show before my first cup of tea 🍵

[@GarrettJayChristian]

Funny Simone brought up the set design because it was made from real collected roadkill; allegedly, in the unvented house in the full Texas summer heat, cast and crew would have to periodically go outside to vomit.

[@jobu-tupaki]

Halloween is considered the precursor of the slasher and for giving identity to the way the genre is done to this day, but I think "Texas" deserved more credit for this

[@cedricbrookins4851]

Leatherface, Norman Bates, and buffalo bill from silent of lamb have one thing in common . That is that they are loosely based on ed Gain a real person. That's scary.

[@D1210]

That metal door in that wooden house.

[@TheScreamingMime]

Moral of the story, don't enter a strange house without invitation or permission if you value your life. Even if the residents aren't insane, you could easily get shot doing that.

[@michaelblaine6494]

Absolutely,even if the house isn’t strange

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

That’s true.

[@VIMaggotVIBrainzVI]

Especially if you're in..... you know, rural Texas

[@tjm6983]

Or depending on the house, you could get shot just for going to the wrong house by mistake and knocking on the door or even just for pulling into their driveway

[@minermatic1919]

only in 'MURICA

[@bassage13]

I watched this when I was 8. I lived in Texas close to where it was filmed. My dad showed it to me. 80s gen x kids grew up way different. Young people today would be shocked by that, but every kid I knew grew up the same way I did.

[@guitarman8462]

He was more of a grave robber. The inside of his house was made of bones. This is where Alfred Hitchock got his idea for the movie ' Psycho ". In that movie Norman loved his mother and kept his mother's room in perfect order. Same in this the Texas Chainsaw film. The cops broke through a wall and found a secret room where they saw his mother's and was in shock . Not to mention what they found inside the house. His mother's room was in perfect order , he really loved his mother.

[@GBelmont87]

This came out 14 years after psycho, unless you mean this was inspired by that movie

[@dqan7372]

@@GBelmont87 Both movies inspired by same real events. Wild that we went from Psycho to this in just 14 years.

[@fynnthefox9078]

Yeah, people need to get their facts right. There's a clear difference between serial killer and grave robber.

[@guitarman8462]

@@fynnthefox9078 they said he only admitted to 2 murders of 2 women. If I'm correct ? Although the cops never believed that story.

[@CaturdayNite]

22:00 "There is no out in this." That is what sells horror to me, no out. If the characters miss or screw up a chance to escape it is one thing. But the more trapped in the situation they are the more frightening it is.

[@LastTorgoInParis]

i thnk Astrology Girl will always be my movie crush

[@JJgibson1]

Check out the movies The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(2003)(Remake), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning(2006)(Prequel to 2003 version), Texas Chainsaw(2013)(Sequel to 1974 version), and Texas Chainsaw Massacre(2022)(Sequel to 1974 version).

[@thomasknash]

Couple of post on a couple of things: First, the story is based on Hansel & Gretel (young people just show up to the monsters house) and the killers inspired by real life killers Ed Gein and Dean Corll, who committed the “Houston Mass Murders.” Corll’s crimes were uncovered in August, 1973 (same time as the film is set) and the filmmakers implied this movie is about those crimes. Secondly, the film is meant to make you experience what it’s like to be a cattle getting slaughtered. I firmly believe that Hooper was influenced by Georges Franju’s documentary depicting animals in a slaughterhouse called BLOOD OF THE BEASTS.

[@Valkonnen]

No, Tobe Hooper grew upin Texas near a slaughter house

[@thomasknash]

@@Valkonnen I have no doubt, but if you ever watch BLOOD OF THE BEASTS certain shots seem to be influenced by that film (Fanju also did EYES WITHOUT A FACE, which I also think was an inspiration).

[@fmellish71]

@@thomasknash Good call with the Franju reference

[@liljaalveone]

The best preview ever!:_))

[@Darth-Lesbian]

3:28 Yes. Some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen was ancient graffiti. Humans never really change that much 😂 If you want an interesting read check out “THE BAWDY GRAFFITI OF POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM”

[@mauriziogiacomocolombo-sr3oe]

This is horror! Not the crap of today. Is a masterpiece. Immortal.

[@moldy13]

Road Kill Cafe... You kill it; We grill it.

[@orko714]

Beat me to it.

[@sabalos]

Legit masterpiece. Greatest final girl ever. The sequel is its own kind of masterpiece!

[@jrr2480]

Fun Fact: The filmmakers of this movie was pushing for a PG rating at the time, but ended up with a mostly deserved R.😰

[@thomasknash]

Regarding why they didn’t just drive away in that truck. The truck was off, either stalled (which happens when you slam the breaks) or turned off (which is protocol for an accident). Starting up and getting a truck into gear to drive off isn’t fast, so you’d have to be sitting in the driver seat with your foot on the clutch next to an open window where a guy is swinging a chainsaw. Understandable why they’d use that moment to instead try to sneak away.

[@fnizzelwhoop]

That f'cking video thumbnail lol Really looking forward to watching this one!

[@gazoontight]

That final dance scene is always a crowd-pleaser. I always love it!

[@dreambrother82]

“Poor Simone” my thoughts at seeing this post. Infinite recovery time required surely.

[@Alispart]

She took it very well I think. A few hundred movies later her skin's a little thicker.

[@dreambrother82]

@@Alispart Definitely 😆

[@Replicaate]

From Leatherfaces perspective, his house is being invaded by strangers and he’s panicking cos he’s scared of what the family will think if he doesn’t deal with em.

[@FatherMellow]

Fun fact: In the script the mark The Hitchhiker puts on the van is also on the back of Grampa's chair but they didn't film the shot of it.

[@thomasknash]

It’s also the same as the bones hanging from the dilapidated house. I imagine it’s the family “brand.”

[@shreknet]

I'm happy you two are finally watching this, I consider this my favourite grindhouse horror film of all time. It's a rusty nail and you are a fly on the wall watching the terror commence. This film was a circumstance of it's environment of intense punishing heat and the combined talent of what the actors, set designers and crew brought. All resulted in this masterpiece.

[@Darth-Lesbian]

10:42 This has literally been one of my fantasies 😂 To own a cabin deep in the woods and fill it and the surrounding area with creepy stuff to keep out intruders. I have a whole list of cool stuff to try. I’m ready for the hag life.

[@iluvausten40517]

What you just watched is one of the most intense, well made horror films in the history of American cinema. I always feel compelled to tell this story whenever a channel I watch take a look at this film. I went to see a midnight showing of this movie at my local art house theatre. I just went to see the film, expecting nothing in addition to that. However, before the movie started, Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) appeared before a room of astonished fan and spent about 30 min. answering questions about the film. We then watched the film with him, and I was able to shake his hand after the movie. It was both amazing and creepy!!

[@NeelTheSphynx]

This film arguably has the first final girl of the modern slasher genre.

[@omegashinra7672]

I'd make the argument for Black Christmas as they practically released at the same time, but I think I have to give it to Texas Chainsaw because Sally actually survives, and Jess doesn't.

[@NeelTheSphynx]

@@omegashinra7672 and she really fights for her escape

[@matthew6427]

I remember running through a forest, from Old Bill 😅 (I was a young troublemaker) and right off the edge of a small cliff into a creek bed. Felt like a cartoon, where my feet kept moving on empty ground. Good times but glad I'm over it too.

[@lachtak42]

You also should watch 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - it's good and scary.

[@labmonkeyplays6665]

"What was the... Camp where everyone died?" You guys gotta be psychic LMAO. I woulda been like "Thats like half of horror cinema"

[@DarthMillennial1]

You guys definitely have to watch the 2nd one!!!! It’s bonkers

[@michaelriddick7116]

"Only parts of the corpse had been removed." That clip plays repeatedly at the start of the 1992 White Zombie song "One Big Crunch" (which is a lead-in track to their song "Grindhouse"). 🤘😎🤘 Great song, awesome album :D