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re: Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Posted on 8/28/22 at 8:01 pm to CrappyPants
Posted on 8/28/22 at 8:01 pm to CrappyPants
TCM Part 2 was the best. I loved that one.
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Posted on 8/28/22 at 8:18 pm to CrappyPants
Nice troll post bro. You got some people wound up so congrats.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 12:41 am to CrappyPants
Part of what makes it great is the grittiness of the filming. I saw it for the first time when I was about 10 in 1983. Having grown up in Shreveport, I was very familiar with a lot of the small towns in northeast Texas where this was supposed to have taken place. The movie did a great job of capturing what these small communities were like in the 70’s and even early 80’s. This coupled with the fact that it was not monsters or ghosts or aliens but regular people is what made it so scary to me.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 3:24 am to CrappyPants
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The original? Complete trash.
If you want fake slasher films, then love the reboots. Not a fan of slasher films...but 70s slasher films are about as visceral as you can get.
You complain its not scary? Most slasher films aren't. They're mostly gore.
Its a cheap version of the horror genre...but you can't get more crazy creepy than the middle of buttfrick Texas in the 1970s when writers and directors had full authority. It almost feels like you're on the ground watching a doc. 70s films pushed the edge, the likes we haven't seen since.
This post was edited on 8/29/22 at 3:28 am
Posted on 8/29/22 at 6:14 am to Hoops
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Hitchhiking literally plummeted in popularity bc of this movie lol
It did for hitchhiking what Jaws did to swimming in the ocean.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 6:28 am to CrappyPants
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Am I missing something?
Yes, good taste in horror films.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 7:50 am to CocomoLSU
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it definitely doesn’t hold up well as one of the GOATs.
I still disagree.
One major issue with reviewing it after seeing its progeny is that everything else basically stole from it. Kind of like slashers and Halloween. So THAT is the issue more than the movie itself not holding up. It's style and substance are still being copied today, so it holds up.
Also, the shitty film gives it a snuff film feel and that's something that cannot be replicated today. Ti West does a good job making movies feel like they're from the 70s or 80s but they're still clean with modern film and post production. You can't replicate that grimy presentation like TCM or Last House on the Left.
It's not just the kills or direct interaction with the family. That scene where she stumbles into the room of feathers and bones is intense. It's very difficult to replicate that with clean/modern filmmaking.
I have to revisit 2 but I will say I pretty much loathe all other TCM movies except for the 2003 one, and that one is just uninspired slasher shite. The rest of the movies are horrible. Leatherface isn't a slasher.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 7:54 am to CrappyPants
watching chainsaw after seeing friday 13, halloween, nightmare etc... it just doesn't compare.
back in the 70s it was one of the scariest movies ever.
back in the 70s it was one of the scariest movies ever.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 9:28 am to SlowFlowPro
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I still disagree.
One major issue with reviewing it after seeing its progeny is that everything else basically stole from it. Kind of like slashers and Halloween. So THAT is the issue more than the movie itself not holding up. It's style and substance are still being copied today, so it holds up.
I don't mean it isn't one of the GOATs. I mean that if you sat someone down today who has never seen it and made them watch it, they wouldn't be terrified of it like people were 30-40 years ago. It's "scariness" doesn't hold up is what I am trying to say.
Of course it's earned its spot historically, and the horror genre is what it is (even today) due to the OG TCM.
I just mean in terms of a good, scary movie, it doesn't hold up as well as some of the other GOATs in my opinion. So maybe a better way to put it is that it's one of the GOATs, but has aged sort of poorly.
And it's certainly not "trash" as the OP said. Not by any means.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 11:44 am to CrappyPants
quote:I don't see how you couldn't have enjoyed the slow burn leading up to Leatherface's first apperance. It was masterfully done.
Complete trash. Am I missing something?
Posted on 8/29/22 at 11:56 am to CrappyPants
I watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the first time a few months ago, and I was pretty impressed with it. (I had just watched Lifeforce and that made me want to see more by the director. All I'd seen before was Poltergeist.)
When the horror actually starts in TCM, it's understated in a way that makes it really effective. The killing is quick and matter-of-fact instead of "cinematic," and I think that makes a big difference.
When the horror actually starts in TCM, it's understated in a way that makes it really effective. The killing is quick and matter-of-fact instead of "cinematic," and I think that makes a big difference.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 11:59 am to CrappyPants
OP you can go frick yourself with a chainsaw you mouth breathing son of a bitch!
Posted on 8/29/22 at 12:01 pm to Big Scrub TX
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I don't see how you couldn't have enjoyed the slow burn leading up to Leatherface's first apperance. It was masterfully done.
I didn't enjoy the slowness of it. That retard in the van in the beginning cutting his hand, the pathetic reactions of the doofus' in the car. He lasted longer in the car than most normal people would've allowed. It got more interesting after the first kill I have to admit but the leading up to it. The wheelchair guy arguing about losing his knife with that blond. Drool. And the skeletons all over the house. Looks like they got a run on an after Halloween sale at Walmart. Not very realistic. I have to admit, after reading a lot of the comments I do have to say I get it (as far as it inspiring the whole slasher theme to horror movies). And I did read it wasn't done on a high budget. Who the hell knows, maybe if they had more money to film it could've been better.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 12:10 pm to Lsudx256
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TCM Part 2 was the best. I loved that one.
Got to meet Bill Moseley a few years ago. I wish he would get more roles.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 12:28 pm to CrappyPants
there's never been another movie that makes you feel like the characters feel. idk how Tobe Hooper did it, but just watching the movie makes you feel hot, sweaty, tense, and claustrophobic. you feel disgusting, like you can almost smell the house through the screen. it's an amazing feat.
that shitty film and sound really contributes to the whole experience as well. One of the horror GOATs
that shitty film and sound really contributes to the whole experience as well. One of the horror GOATs
Posted on 8/29/22 at 12:30 pm to Carson123987
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there's never been another movie that makes you feel like the characters feel. idk how Tobe Hooper did it, but just watching the movie makes you feel hot, sweaty, tense, and claustrophobic. you feel disgusting, like you can almost smell the house through the screen. it's an amazing feat.
that shitty film and sound really contributes to the whole experience as well. One of the horror GOATs
Posted on 8/29/22 at 1:03 pm to CrappyPants
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The original? Complete trash.
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Am I missing something?
Taste
Posted on 8/29/22 at 1:56 pm to CrappyPants
Well, the shocking appearance of Leatherface and the brevity of it was great.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 2:31 pm to CrappyPants
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And I did read it wasn't done on a high budget. Who the hell knows, maybe if they had more money to film it could've been better.
I’m guessing you are under 25 or the type to just try too hard to go against the grain. How else can someone use the above criteria to discredit a movie this old.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 2:45 pm to Hoops
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How else can someone use the above criteria to discredit a movie this old.
It's not just that. Like I posted and Carson posted, the griminess of the style ADDS to the movie's effects.
This movie is about a gross, cannibal family in BFE Texas when it's inhumanly hot. If you over-produce the look of the movie it becomes more fake. The grittiness makes it feel more real.
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