Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Pros: Horror classic.
Cons: Not really scary, to be honest.

Okay, I’m probably going to lose my “Horror Fan For Life” card for this, but I have to get it off my chest: I’ve never thought THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE was all that impressive. I don’t find it scary or particularly gory, and every time I watch it, I ...

Pros: Great characters, good atmosphere, solid direction
Cons: the ending's a bit abrupt

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Vortex Films
Rating: USA: R/ UK: 18/ Australia: R

While the exploitation genre has released its fair share of low budget and no budget masterpieces, there’s probably no film more revered and...

Pros: Leatherface, Atmosphere, Disturbing
Cons: A Little Too Twisted For Some

In my humble opinion, horror movies were best when the film makers tried to keep things simple. However when film makers try to make simple horror movies we get stuff like Camp Blood, I guess the magic has just been lost somewhere along the way. There is ...

Pros: Scary, gross, love the way it was shot
Cons: Ending

Ahhhhhh The Texas Chainsaw Massacre smut film that many mainstream horror aficionados label as a horror classic. While the film is pretty dated and bigger, badder films have been released since, it still holds a big place in my heart as one ...

Pros: Genuinely disturbing, memorable depictions of insanity, semi-realistic characters, authentic rural atmosphere.
Cons: Some pacing issues, unsympathetic protagonists, lack of outright gore may repell some.

Tobe Hooper is a director with a checkered career. In fact, looking at his more recent work makes it hard to believe that he was once an auteur of horror cinema. But like him or not, Hooper has earned his spot on the Horror Wall of Fame. In 1974, he and ...

Pros: Leatherface embodies the madness of Ed Gein
Cons: difficult to get through

Director Tobe Hooper, who has in the last decade become a mere shadow to prominent hack directors of teen slasher flicks, was at one time the most controversial man of his kind in Hollywood. His first major film, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, was widely revi ...

Pros: Absolutely relentless independent horror classic full of fright, creativity, humor and intensity.
Cons: I want to go back in time and execute Michael Bay like the Terminator.

"The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long ...

Pros: Terrifying
Cons: None

Raw, uncompromising, intense and terrifying (and that’s just the title), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is far and away the most purely horrifying movie ever made. One of the few horror films that fully lives up (or down depending on your view) to ...

Pros: The low-budget feel. Scenes of true horror. And, of course, Leatherface.
Cons: The sequels it spawned were as wretched as sequels usually are.

Two days ago, while making the usually uneventful trek from Dallas to San Antonio with my father, we decided to take the proverbial “scenic route”. Even Texas, a state that most outsiders seem to think is just a cattle-raising and oil-producing ...

Pros: perhaps the most unsettling film that I have ever seen
Cons: perhaps the most unsettling film that I have ever seen

When I finished watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre tonight for the first time in about ten years, I realized that my jaw was aching from continued and hard clenching. I had forgotten, you see, exactly how unpleasant and horrific this little...

Pros: Original, shocking, a trove of imagery, unforgettable in every way.
Cons: There's a remake coming out.

What do you mean you're a horror fan and haven't seen this movie? I'm disinclined to believe you, s ...

Pros: Very scary, atmospheric, spooky soundtrack, strange props, plays very well on peoples fears.
Cons: None that I can think of.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a movie about a group of young adults who go off into the Texan countryside for a day to check on the grave of the grandfather of two of the group members, as there has been an outbreak of grave-robbing going on in that ...

Pros: Actors, story, atmosphere, scares, execution, presentation, everything.
Cons: I don't like watching things like this.

Feel free to take my word on everything I will say in this review, but if you're a die-hard fan of this film, don't be too shocked with my rating. Let me explain my experience first. I'll give my reason at the end.. First the story: "The story ...

Pros: Really scary!
Cons: The beginning is slow, some people might find it too gruesome.

When I saw the commercial's for the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I thought it looked great, but when I read it was a disimprovement on the original I decided to rent the original. I have to say that it is probably one of the scariest ...

Pros: Directing, freaky plot, setting, extras on special anniversary edition
Cons: The evildoer Michael Bay remade the film. Where's Leatherface when you really need him?

Texas certainly seems to have had its share of calamities over the years. The slaughter at the Alamo. The tragedy at Waco. The assassination of JFK. Charles Whitman's sniper escapade. Tobe Hooper's 1974 cult flick The Texas Chainsaw ...