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DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 6, 1998
• R2: 22 May 2000
Budget $140,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 23 minutes
Country USA
Studio Bryanston Films, Vortex Japan
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
• Headcheese
• Bloodright in Texas (1974)
• Blutgericht in Texas (1974)
• Das Kettensägenmassaker (1974)
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Genre: Thriller, Horror, Slasher, Murder, Psychos, Cannibals, Serial Killer, Black Comedy, Cult Classic, Gore, Suspense, Disturbing, Teenage
Tagline: Who will survive and what will be left of them?
Plot: The granddaddy of all splatter films. Five teenagers driving through rural Texas stumble onto an old farmhouse which turns out to be inhabited by a ghoulish family of mass murderers. Chainsaws and meat hooks are the tools of these white trash psycho-killers' trade -- they decorate their home with human bones, skin and other gruesome relics, supplementing the body count with corpses from the local graveyard when fresh victims are scarce. It looks like curtains for certain for the teen travellers trapped inside this house of horrors -- unless one scantily-clad female can elude the powertools and survive the night of terror
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 At first glance it's an unpleasant and brutal low-budget film, but at second glance it's a stylish little film. Truly a classic.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
An eerie, neo-realistic (almost to the point of being documentary-style) horror film is surprisingly low in gore, but way up there in sheer terror. ... "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" could only have been made effectively in the 1970s, as so many of the films sequels would later prove.-- (eSplatter.com)
Tobe Hooper's brilliant use of "implied" violence dispels the myth that this is a very gory movie. See the "meat-hook" scene for this..  --Gryphon (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
One of my favorite horror films. This is a violent and edgy cult film that leaves you thinking about it weeks after viewing it. Highly recommended for any horror fan. 9/10--FrighT MasteR (UHM)
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| Directed by |
Tobe Hooper
Poltergeist, Lifeforce, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 |
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| Written by |
Tobe Hooper
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III |
| Kim Henkel
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III |
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| Cast |
Gunnar Hansen
Murder-Set-Pieces, Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation, Mosquito |
 | Marilyn Burns
Terror in the Aisles, Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation, Helter Skelter | | Paul A. Partain
Race with the Devil, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth | William Vail
Mausoleum, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth | | Edwin Neal
Murder-Set-Pieces, Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation, Zombiegeddon | |
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| Music By |
Tobe Hooper
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist, The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
| Wayne Bell
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Eaten Alive, Future-Kill |
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The house in the movie looked totally creepy, very dark and overgrown wildlife and bush covered it. Small amount of light were seen coming out the small window through the dirty dark curtains.  -- (terrorwatch.net)
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