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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: MPI
EAN: 0030306180298
Format: Anamorphic, Color
Label: Dark Sky Films
Manufacturer: Dark Sky Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dark Sky Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 9700
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Theatrical Release Date: 1974
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
It has been called grisly, sick, and perverse,' as well as raw, unshakeable, and the movie that redefined horror. It was attacked by churches, banned by governments, and acclaimed by only the bravest of critics. It stunned audiences worldwide and set a new standard in movie terror forever. In 1974, writer-producer-director Tobe Hooper unleashed this dark, visionary tale about a group of five young friends who face a nightmare of torment at the hands of a depraved Texas clan. Today it remains unequaled as a landmark of outlaw filmmaking and unparalleled in its impact as perhaps the most frightening motion picture ever made.
Bonus features include:
Brand new never-before-seen featurette with reclusive actress Terri McMinn entitled Off the Hook
Feature-length commentaries with director Tobe Hooper, cinematographer Daniel Pearl, actors Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Allen Danzinger, and art director Robert A. Burns
Featurettes The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth and Flesh Wounds
Theatrical trailers and TV and Radio spots
A tour of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre House with Gunnar Hansen
Deleted scenes and outtakes
Blooper reel and still gallery
Amazon.com essential video:
This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem's Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it's also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it's blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they're held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie's powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style--but it also has a wicked sense of humor (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the '70s, '80s, and '90s). OK, in case you couldn't tell, it's 'not for everyone.' But as a landmark in the development of the horror/slasher genre, it ranks with Psycho, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of my all time favorite Films ever made
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre tripped me out when I first rented it on VHS a few years ago. It was around 2001 and I rented it because I was like 13 and Bored! So me and friends watched it late at night, and everyone disliked it, cause they were idiots. I loved it! The film is so bizzare. Its just this old movie with a group of friends discovering an obandoned farmhouse near one of the girl's grandparents' old house. In the farmhouse lives a strange, sadistic murderer and his entire family! It's so ... Read More
Rating:  - THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE [BLU-RAY]
WORST VIDEO I HAVE SEEN IN MY LIFE. Before buying this blu-ray, I did not know that they are the much OLDER version.
Rating: - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
This is perhaps the stupidest movie ever made. If not the most stupid, it should easily make the top five (or would that be the bottom five?). Either way, the acting is terrible, the sound is horrific, and the plot appears to have been written during an afternoon of drinking and football watching.
Five idiotic morons, one in a wheelchair, are in a van in rural Texas. They stupidly pick up this total scumbag hitch hiker who proceeds to give everyone the creeps, but he isn't thrown out ... Read More
Rating: - Fresh from the Slaughterhouse
Review of the Blu-Ray edition (4 stars out of 5)
The Good Things
*Includes a number of special features; documentaries, deleted scenes, outtakes, and trailers.
*The movie is one of the freakiest ever made. It has some graphicness to it, but is not quite as bad as I thought it would be (newer movies like "Saw" are way worse). It achieves terror more through the creepy settings and unsettling ideas.
*Filming style is good. Has a lot of good camera angles and movements. ... Read More
Rating: - Who will survive, and what will be left of them?
If you're reading this review because you have never seen this film, stop now, navigate back to the product information page, and click "order". Created in summer of 1973 by Tobe Hooper, TCM has become one of the most recognized and influential horror films of all time. Achieving super cult status, spawning sequels, action figures, Atari games, it's safe to say that this one is a force to be reckoned with.
"The film which you are about to see, is an account of a tragedy that befell a group ... Read More
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