The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
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ToastedCheese — 1 year ago(November 22, 2024 02:37 AM)
Yes, it was messy and Hooper edited out a Leatherface underground garage attack sequence because it was just too stupid and ruined the pacing. He also needed to reign in the rest of the film by about 10mins of cuts. The hammer attack by Chop-Top on LG was ludicrous and he was still alive after all those smashes to his head.
Too much running around from one place to the next and Dennis Hopper going ballistic in a psychotic way that seemed like his Frank Poole character from Lynch's
Blue Velvet
, had just walked off that set straight onto Hooper's.
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fuckyouallfuckyouallfuckyouall — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 10:33 AM)
Same here!
I just love Leatherface's costume on the original, the whole combination of both feminine (make up and lipstick on his "face") and male (brutality) characteristics, like he dresses up as the mother he never had, (not the biological mother but a woman who cares for him and doesn't look at him as a deformed freak or doesn't encourage him to kill people) giving to himself the attention and love he never received.
On the later remakes, this feature permanently gone and Leatherface becomes just another mental insane serial killer with a twisted hobby, so we can't resist the temptation to compare the new Leatherface with other serial killers like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers.
On the first film we experience something that isn't there in all remakes, perhaps the beginning of 2006s remake (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) is the only scene worth to be mentioned, i watched the first 20 minutes of that movie more than 3 or 4 times, really good character re-build!
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fuckyouallfuckyouallfuckyouall — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 10:46 AM)
Well, that's the point; making the audience feel disgust and despair and appreciate life more since they aren't into the position of the victims.
I guess that one can either hate or love splatter movies, there is no middle choice in there…
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fuckyouallfuckyouallfuckyouall — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 10:56 AM)
Fair enough. But even if you do hate them, TCM is undoubtedly one of the most iconic horror movies franchise, ever.
A friend of mine never saw a single horror movie in her life, she only watches romantic comedies and dramas and she avoids anything creepy at all costs and she knows TCM. That says it all
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MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 11:09 AM)
I'll always like the first, because it was so raw and surprising at the time. I saw it at a drive-in.
I have to say that #2 is a close second.
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fuckyouallfuckyouallfuckyouall — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 11:18 AM)
I wish i could go back in time and see the original film while having selective amnesia and forget the other remakes.
It still is frightening 50+ years after the official release so i can't help myself but wonder
how much
terrifying would be for teenagers of the '70s!
It would be like revolutionary into horror movies, to say the least.
I'm 30yo and when i first saw
Saw
(pun intended
) , it changed everything to me!
So i guess that we could somehow compare those two, Saw being equivalent terrifying and jaw-dropping for teenagers of 2004s (like myself) as Texas Chainsaw Massacre was for teenagers of '70s.
(i know that The Cube -1997- inspired the director and producer of Saw, but i was a baby back then so Saw is more like a movie i can remember watching at a young age while The Cube surely is a great movie but i watched it many years later, long after i discovered Saw)
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