Why I Love Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

That's bullshit because there is no gore in the movie, firstly. Secondly, if anything, it was independent shock cinema. Of COURSE it's going to look "low budget", it's an indy horror from 1973 shot on a flippin' Super 8mm camera!!!!!

It was raw, off the cuff, and had such overbearing plausibility that you CANNOT deny the possibility that what was depicted in TCM could very well be an everyday occurance in some backwater town in the boonies.

The movie was FILLED with subtle visual "hints". Leatherface slamming the door and you have no clue what's going to happen next. That says so much more than watching him hack some poor kid to pieces. Scenes like that added to the mystery, the fear of the unknown, which is what drives true horror. Not predictable, cliched goings-on like in todays movies.

The content of the movie isn't what was scary, it was after the fact, when you finish it, thinking about how utterly realistic what we just saw very well could be. You don't even have to suspend reality in a movie like this, because you can percieve it as realistic. THAT is what makes a movie scary.

I found the scene where she's tied to the chair very scary.

We hate unrealistic films that had the money to make it realistic and were filmed closer to date. Okay, so the original TCM didn't look real. We have to understand that it was made in the '70s and had a low budget.

Originally posted by Major Knight
Her stuck in a chair is a big torturing scene..really. well that just seemed to make the movie seem really cheesy and lame. I say it doesn't resemble horror because in this movie where "people get murdered and get put through a terrifying ordeal with a cannibalistic family" its just felt way low budget. the whole way the movie was played on kept making me taste the cheese over and over again. there was no real scare factor. I hear so many plp say they hate these fake scary movies now a days that use cheap jumps and gore to be scary but thats all this film was.

i give up.. just enjoy underworld and resident evil apocalypse which are obviously better films than tcm could eva hope to be 💃

and i thought you were a fan of horror for a minute there too...

i am 🙂

Sarcasm, Tabs. Deano's just isn't as blatantly obvious as mine, sometimes.

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
That's bullshit because there is no gore in the movie, firstly. Secondly, if anything, it was independent shock cinema. Of COURSE it's going to look "low budget", it's an indy horror from 1973 shot on a flippin' Super 8mm camera!!!!!

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
It was raw, off the cuff, and had such overbearing plausibility that you CANNOT deny the possibility that what was depicted in TCM could very well be an everyday occurance in some backwater town in the boonies.

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
The movie was FILLED with subtle visual "hints". Leatherface slamming the door and you have no clue what's going to happen next. That says so much more than watching him hack some poor kid to pieces. Scenes like that added to the mystery, the fear of the unknown, which is what drives true horror. Not predictable, cliched goings-on like in todays movies.

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
The content of the movie isn't what was scary, it was after the fact, when you finish it, thinking about how utterly realistic what we just saw very well could be. You don't even have to suspend reality in a movie like this, because you can percieve it as realistic. THAT is what makes a movie scary.

Spoiler:
like when the girl shoots her self in the head

Originally posted by Major Knight
Her stuck in a chair is a big torturing scene..really. well that just seemed to make the movie seem really cheesy and lame. I say it doesn't resemble horror because in this movie where "people get murdered and get put through a terrifying ordeal with a cannibalistic family" its just felt way low budget. the whole way the movie was played on kept making me taste the cheese over and over again. there was no real scare factor. I hear so many plp say they hate these fake scary movies now a days that use cheap jumps and gore to be scary but thats all this film was.

You my friend watch movies in a detached state. I do not know if it is possible for you, but getting a little more involved with the main character would have helped you understand the insanity of that scene. You would feel/understand the horror and desperation she felt and climaxed like the rest of us.

Major Knight, that stupid head shot was deleiberatly put in as "wow" factor. and its freaking stupid. if you were packing heat all that time, wouldn't you have thought of maybe SHOOTING LEATHERFACE? but no, you run away and shoot yourself. stupid start to a pointless movie

some people dont appreciate a classic

indeed

Originally posted by tabby999
Major Knight, that stupid head shot was deleiberatly put in as "wow" factor. and its freaking stupid. if you were packing heat all that time, wouldn't you have thought of maybe SHOOTING LEATHERFACE? but no, you run away and shoot yourself. stupid start to a pointless movie

theres no way the remake could have the same impact on people that the original had...absolutly no way...the remake is very good i'll say that but i think it is unfair to compare the remake to the original...i can see why u think the remake is better but if u watch the old one again and watch it carefully and then think to yourself..why has this film got so much hype..then maybe u will appreciate it more

bollocks to that major knight. as if you simply "find" a gun on the side of the road, what a weak attempt at explaining that. and its a classic because it is one of the movies quoted by many, many directors and fans as one of the best horror movies ever. it is one of the movies that raised the bar in horror and made a whole new set of people want to try make their own.

we wouldnt have 3/4 of the horror movies we have today if it werent for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original).

Very true, SlipknoT. Leatherface is the first slasher, no?

Nah. "Bay of Blood" by Mario Bava, most would say. But, by definition, "Halloween" really kick started the actual slasher genre.

I personal thought that it was crap. i wasn't scared at all and there were too many bits where you were like ohhh dear god they did this in the movie....

wasn't Psycho really the first slasher?

i think psychos more psychological then slasher.