My Dad got me into horror movies. Dad, Dee and I watch them together, it is kind of like a horror movie watching club! My Mother wants nothing to do with it. She has never seen "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", she never will.
Ever since I was about seven, my Dad would tell me stories about the production of this crazy movie. It was made like No movie had ever been made. It was hot. It was Texas. The rooms in the old house were filled up with bones from veterinary bone yards. It smelled. The prop mistress accidentally injected herself with formaldehyde. Gunnar Hansen could not take off the LeatherFace outfit to be cleaned. Edwin Neal said it was worse then Vietnam, he fought there in the year 1969. The movie was released in 1974.
After all of these years of lore, I finally decided to rent it from the library. It was the first time for Dee and I. For my Dad, it had to be the millionth.
A group of teenagers go road tripping to a cemetery (Marilyn Burns as Sally, Paul Partain as her brother Franklin, Allen Danziger as Jerry, William Vail as Kirk and Teri McMinn as Pam) to see if Sally and Franklin's grandfather's grave has been dug up. Graves were being robbed and a corpse was erected in the cemetery in a very crude way.
They pick up a hitchhiker along the way (played by Edwin Neal) and eventually kick him out of the van for being nuts. I won't tell you what The Hitchhiker did, that would be a spoiler alert! The teenagers end up at a gas station with no gas and they go to their Grandpa's old place. It is abandoned. Pam and Kirk go off in search of a swimming hole. They see an old farmhouse and decide to go there and ask for some gas.
They reach the farmhouse. Kirk knocks, no one answers, he enters the house. Who enters someone else's house if they don't answer the door? Especially a creepy old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere? STUPID. Inside, Kirk hears some crazy pig squealing. Being the law bending youth that he is, he goes towards the noise. THEN!! Out comes LeatherFace and---I won't tell you! Go see the movie! But it turns into a complete nightmare.
Who dies? Who gets away? The gas station owner and the Hitchhiker may be involved? And why does the gas station owner look like Milton Berle? Who the heck is LeatherFace (played by Gunnar Hansen) ? This and more you can find out by watching the movie. IT'S INTENSE!
This may be one of the scariest movies I have seen and it is not even laden with CGI! This movie is notorious and one of the best. I suggest you see it, but don't eat anything whilst watching it. It is not gory, but it has it's disgusting parts! Plus, you can almost smell the rotting bones in the Texas heat!
So thank you Dad, for introducing this great movie to me, I dedicate this post to you.
Ok, have you seen this movie? If so, what did you think? What is the scariest movie you have ever seen? If you see this movie, will you blog about it? Let me know, comment below! PS, here is the YouTube trailer. Remastered.
Nope, haven't seen any of the TCM movies. (Apparently there are 6 total). Horror is not my favorite movie genre. Not because of the gore, which I can handle just fine; it's the stuff-jumping-out-at-you and depictions of physical torture and abuse that bother me. And yet, for someone who doesn't like horror films, I've seen a surprising number of them. The scariest one was The Exorcism of Emily Rose. I screamed several times in the theater, much to the amusement of everyone else. :-P
ReplyDeleteUsually I am more for the supernatural horror movies, hauntings, possessions and such. I was surprised I liked this. But if you were to see this, you should see this version, because it is THE one! You don't actually see too much in this, it's mostly implication. One of the movies that bothered me most was "The Prisoners" with Hugh Jackman, safe to say I will not watch that again. I've only seen one horror movie in the theater! :) I won't be seeing the 2nd TCM, to gory! By the way, what is your favorite genre?
DeleteGood question... Hmmm... I guess I'd have to go with Action/Adventure. Comedy's a close second, though.
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