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lilaclunablossom · 6 months

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Review

I saw 1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for my horror marathon, the day before Halloween.

I might’ve seen this movie as a kid, I don’t remember, but I was definitely always terrified by the idea of Leatherface. As everyone knows, he’s a killer who likes to use a chainsaw, and wears his victims’ skin. He’s inspired by the real-life serial killer Ed Gein, and while Gein didn’t use a chainsaw, and didn’t have the same speech issues, he did in fact like to wear human skin.

It’s directed by Tobe Hooper, who also directed Poltergeist, which was on the marathon list, but I wasn’t able to get to it. The shot composition is great, with some amazing stand-out shots, like the skeleton sculpture Leatherface makes.

The acting is good, maybe a bit goofy at times, but I feel like that added to the psychotic feeling, especially when certain characters are expanded later on. And WOW, I didn’t expect this movie to focus so much on characters other than Leatherface. Suffice to say, this movie was also twistier than I expected.

It’s pretty well-known by now that this is a vegetarian work, and now that I’ve finally seen it as an adult, it’s really obvious. Even without knowing beforehand, I probably would’ve figured it out. The main characters explicitly discuss how horribly animals are treated in slaughterhouses. Leatherface makes bone sculptures, places his victims on a hook like animal carcasses, and there’s pig sounds when he’s killing. Hell, even him wearing human skin is a parallel to wearing animal skin, hence the name “Leatherface” even though human skin isn’t called “leather.” In fact, now that I’m thinking about it, the only reason the main characters start roaming around the countryside is because one of their family members had their grave robbed… like how humans mess around with animal corpses.

The music was made by the director himself and Wayne Bell, and is apparently one of the earliest works of genuine dark ambient music. It uses no “actual” musical instruments, and is meant to sound like what an animal would hear in a slaughterhouse. I LOVE dark ambient, and this shit slaps. It’s SO moody and industrial, it’s wonderful.

So yeah, I’m not a vegetarian, but it’s extremely clever to make a slasher where the victims represent animals, and the symbolism in general is very well-done. Guillermo del Toro became vegetarian for 4 years after seeing this, and it’s easy to see why.

This movie is also famous for making daytime feel scary, and while there is a night-time section, this is true – most of the movie is pretty bright, but still feels scary. Lots of movies have done this since (Midsommar comes to mind), but it must’ve been impressive for the 70s.

Fun side note, I love the way Leatherface acts at the end. It comes across like he’s dancing, and it feels strangely cathartic. 4.5/5

I’m sorry animals, you just taste so good and my diet is too accustomed to you ;A;

#The Texas Chain Saw Massacre #Tobe Hooper #The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 #movies #film #horror movies #horror films #slashers #slasher movies #slasher films #horror #Wayne Bell

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byneddiedingo · 8 months

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Gunnar Hansen in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)

Cast: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Terri McMinn, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen. Screenplay: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper. Cinematography: Daniel Pearl. Art direction: Robert A. Burns. Film editing: J. Larry Carroll, Sallye Richardson. Music: Wayne Bell, Tobe Hooper.

Though The Texas Chain Saw Massacre* is brilliant in its own way, it's also one of the most unpleasant movies I've ever forced myself to watch. I'm surprised, nonetheless, that Tobe Hooper turned out to be pretty much a one-hit wonder -- that is, if you believe the rumors that Poltergeist (1982) was mostly directed by Steven Spielberg. And even the stunning effect of Chain Saw on the course of the horror movie depends in large measure on the cinematography of Daniel Pearl, the editing of J. Larry Carroll and Sallye Richardson, and especially the art direction of Robert A. Burns, which has been the source of creepy old house settings ever since, viz. the ones in The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) and the first season of True Detective (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2014). Chain Saw is full of tremendously effective and even hilarious moments -- I still find the hen in the bird cage one of the movie's most inspired bizarre devices, and Hooper perfectly stages the scene in which Sally (Marilyn Burns) thinks she has escaped from Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) and found refuge at the gas station. As she waits for the proprietor (Jim Siedow) to take her to safety, we concentrate on the open door, fully expecting Leatherface to burst through it at any moment, and we share her relief when the proprietor's truck appears outside, only to realize that the worst is yet to come. The film is surprisingly bloodless by contemporary standards, but we don't really need to see heads and limbs lopped off for it to make its effects. I'm just glad I never have to watch it again.

*The on-screen title spells "chainsaw" as two words, even though the posters spelled it as one, as do the sequels, including Hooper's own The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986). For consistency's sake, IMDb sticks to the on-screen spelling.

#The Texas Chain Saw Massacre #Tobe Hooper #Gunnar Hansen

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lostgoonie1980 · 3 years

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191. O Massacre da Serra Elétrica (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, 1974), dir. Tobe Hooper

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richard-is-bored · 3 years

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Underrated horror movie theme music

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (Christopher Young)

Friday the 13th Part 3 (Harry Manfredini, Michael Zager)

Halloween III Season of the Witch (John Carpenter, Alan Howarth)

Child's Play (Joe Renzetti)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, Wayne Bell)

The Texas chainsaw Massacre 2 (Tobe Hooper, Jerry Lambert)

Dawn of the Dead (1978) (Goblin)

Zombi 2 (Fabio Frizzi)

IT (2017) (Benjamin Wallfisch)

The Thing (1982) (Ennio Morricone)

Hellraiser (Christopher Young)

#bored #horror #horror movies #music #song #theme music #a nightmare on elm street #friday the 13th #halloween iii #the texas chainsaw massacre #the texas chainsaw massacre 2 #dawn of the dead #the thing #hellraiser #zombi 2 #child's play #it

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graveyarddirt · 3 years

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Playlist: Halloween Part 1 [#-L] 🎃

This isn't really a playlist as much as it's a masterlist of songs I've been collecting for years with the intention to group together into smaller Halloween and sabbat themed playlists.

There's goth (old & new), folk, metal, rock, movie themes, soundtrack scores, horror punk, new wave, new age, 50s horror bop, 70s esoteric prog rock, and songs from various Halloween specials with a hard focus on 80s TV specials.

➡️ youtube: Halloween Part 1 [#-L] playlist ⬅️

Long Play; 13 Vintage Halloween Songs from the 1910s, 20s, & 30s, Various Artists {listen} A Hornbook For Witches, Vincent Price {listen} Bram Stoker’s Dracula: full soundtrack, Wojciech Kilar {listen} Buio Omega: full soundtrack, Goblin {listen} Peter and the Wolf, David Bowie {listen} Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The, Tobe Hooper & Wayne Bell {listen}

(); (Don’t Fear) The Reaper, Blue Öyster Cult {listen} (Don’t Fear) The Reaper, Unto Ashes {listen} (Every Day is) Halloween, Ministry {listen} (Every Day is) Halloween (2019), Ministry {listen}

#; #1 Crush, Garbage {listen} 7 Devils, The Goddamn Gallows {listen}

A; A Clockwork Orange: Title Music, Wendy Carlos {listen} A Forest, The Cure {listen} A Nightmare on Elm Street: Prologue/ Main Title, Charles Bernstein {listen} A Question of Blood, Jean-Michel Jarre & John Carpenter {listen} A Witches Song, Ordo Funebris {listen} A’soalin, Peter, Paul & Mary {listen} Aisha, Death in Vegas feat. Iggy Pop {listen} All Hallows Eve, Type O Negative {listen} All Souls' Night, Loreena McKennitt {listen} Алукард (Alucard), Zinaida, opomnis’! {listen} Amphetamine Logic, The Sisters of Mercy {listen} Amsterdamned, Loïs Lane {listen} Angels (Laibach Mix), The, Christian Death {listen} Angry Johnny, Poe {listen} Autumnal, Arcana {listen} Ave Dementia, The Marionettes {listen} Awfully Sinister, Suspiria {listen}

B; Bad Moon Rising, Creedence Clearwater Revival {listen} Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Bauhaus {listen} Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Nouvelle Vague {listen} Black Angel, The Cult {listen} Black Dog, Babe Ruth {listen} Black Is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair, HAUSFRAU {listen} Black Madonna, Theatre of Hate {listen} Black Magic, Magic Wands {listen} Black Magic (Suspiria), Sindravania Projects & Viking Guitar Productions {listen} Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All), Type O Negative {listen} Black Snake, Atomic Rooster {listen} Blind Dead, WLDV {listen} Blob, The, The Five Blobs {listen} Blood, Plan 9 {listen} Blood Moon, Saint Sister {listen} Blood of My Lady {Part 2}, The, Unto Ashes {listen} Blood Walk, Cabaret Nocturne {listen} Boogie Monster, The, Gnarls Barkley {listen} Bottom of the River, Delta Rae {listen} Breedless, Ego Likeness {listen} Buio Omega: Theme Reprise, Goblin {listen} Burn, The Cure {listen} Burn the Witch, Queens of the Stone Age {listen} Burning Skies, Tones on Tail {listen}

C; Calcutta, The Names {listen} Candy, Chromatics {listen} Candyman: Cue 2C (Musicbox), Philip Glass {listen} Cantos Profanae (Troll theme), Richard Band {listen} Casper the Friendly Ghost, Daniel Johnston {listen} Cat People (Putting Out Fire), David Bowie {listen} Changelings, Gazelle Twin (John Foxx and the Maths remix) {listen} Cities in Dust, Siouxsie and the Banshees {listen} City of the Living Dead: Theme, Fabio Frizzi {listen} Come to the Sabbat, Black Widow {listen} Come Unto the Corn, The Hare and the Moon {listen} Crazy Man Michael, The Hare and The Moon {listen} Crow, The: Birth of a Legend, Graeme Revell {listen} Cry Little Sister, The Lost Boys OST {listen} Cut, Miranda Sex Garden {listen} Cyanide, Deathstars {listen}

D; Daddy Walked in Darkness, Gil Bateman {listen} Dance In the Graveyards, Delta Rae {listen} Dark Allies, Light Asylum {listen} Dark Entries, Bauhaus {listen} Dark Half, The, The Eden House {listen} Dark Mother, Menace Ruine {listen} Darkness, Daniel Deluxe {listen} Dawn Comes for Us All, Ex Reverie {listen} Day O (Banana Boat Song), Harry Belafonte {listen} Dead Man's Party, Oingo Boingo {listen} Dead Souls, Nine Inch Nails {listen} Death by Moonlight, Rhea’s Obsession {listen} Death Disco, Arbeid Adelt! {listen} Deception, The Crüxshadows {listen} Demo, Deathron/Futura Synk {listen} Demon Cleaner, Kyuss {listen} Devil Do, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs {listen} Devil’s Whorehouse, Misfits {listen} Devils Haircut, Beck {listen} Devil Inside, INXS {listen} Devil Town, Daniel Johnston {listen} Diane, Therapy? {listen} Die, Die My Darling, Misfits {listen} Die Monster Die, Misfits {listen} Dieche, Sex Gang Children {listen} Dig up Her Bones, Misfits {listen} Dirge, Death in Vegas {listen} Discopolis 2.0 (Fehrplay Remix), Lifelike & Kris Menace {listen} Disney's Halloween Treat, Galen R. Brandt & John Debney {listen} Dominion/Mother Russia, The Sisters Of Mercy {listen} Dragula, Rob Zombie {listen} Dream Warriors, Dokken {listen}

E; Emily, Clan of Xymox {listen} Enter Sandman, SHEL {listen} Evil, 45 Grave {listen} Evil Dead, Stellar Corpses {listen}

F; Fate, George Michael Myers {listen} Fog, The, John Carpenter {listen} Friday the 13th Part III: Theme, Harry Manfredini & Hot Ice {listen} Friday the 13th Part V: His Eyes, Pseudo Echo {listen} Fright Night, J. Geils Band {listen} Furry Happy Monsters, REM and The Muppets {listen}

G; Ghostbusters, Ray Parker Jr. {listen} Ghost of John (Traditional), Ryn & Phonetic Hero {listen} Ghost That Feeds, The, Nathan Chase {listen} Giza, Gatekeeper {listen} Graveyard Cha Cha, The Three D’s {listen} Graveyard Rock, Tarantula Ghoul and Her Gravediggers {listen} Great Pumpkin Waltz, The, Vince Guaraldi Trio {listen} Grisly Reminder, Midnight Syndicate {listen}

H; Halloween, Kay Lande and Wade Denning {listen} Halloween, Misfits {listen} Halloween II, Misfits {listen} Halloween, Mudhoney {listen} Halloween in Heaven, Type O Negative {listen} Halloween Parade, Lou Reed {listen} Halloween: Theme, John Carpenter {listen} Haunted When the Minutes Drag, Love and Rockets {listen} He's a Vampire, Archie King {listen} He’s Back (The Man Behind The Mask), Alice Cooper {listen} Headless Horseman, The, Kay Starr {listen} Heads Will Roll, Yeah Yeah Yeahs {listen} Heart of Darkness, Wench {listen} Helena, Misfits {listen} Hell, Squirrel Nut Zippers {listen} Hollow Hills, Bauhaus {listen} Howl, Florence + The Machine {listen} Howling, The, Babel {listen}

I; I Believe in Halloween, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black {listen} I Can See Ya, Ghostling {listen} I Hope You Die, Molly Nilsson {listen} I Put a Spell on You, Bette Midler {listen} I Put A Spell On You, Marilyn Manson {listen} I’m Just A Shadow, SHEL {listen} I’m Your Boogie Man, White Zombie {listen} Incendary Lover, Gitane Demone {listen} Incubus Succubus II, X-Mal Deutschland {listen} In the Mirror (Profondo Rosso/Deep Red), VikingGuitar ft. Chunkstyle {listen} It’s All Forgotten Now, The Caretaker {listen} It’s Halloween, The Shaggs {listen} It’s Your Voodoo Working, Charles Sheffield {listen}

J; Jimmy’s Grave, Deadbolt {listen} John Carpenter’s Halloween, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross {listen} Jump in the Line (Shake, Señora), Harry Belafonte {listen}

K; Killing Moon, The, Echo and The Bunnymen {listen} Killing Moon, The, Nouvelle Vague {listen} King Volcano, Bauhaus {listen} Kiss, The, The Cure {listen}

L; Last Caress, Misfits {listen} Last One Standing, The, Ladytron {listen} Li’l Red Riding Hood, Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs {listen} Life in the Gladhouse, Modern English {listen} Lips Like Sugar, Echo and the Bunnymen {listen} Litanie des Saints, Dr. John {listen} Living Dead Girl, Rob Zombie {listen} Living Hell, Misfits {listen} London Dungeon, Misfits {listen} Lost Your Soul, Cliff and Ivy {listen} Love Like Blood, Killing Joke {listen} Love Song for a Vampire, Annie Lennox {listen} Lucretia, My Reflection, The Sisters Of Mercy {listen} Lullaby, The Cure {listen} Lyke Wake Dirge, Pentangle {listen}

#halloween #halloween music #music #playlist #playlists

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lostprofiles · 5 years

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AE015

DEAD AIR / Vol. 1 / Terence Hannum

B&W inside + B&W on red cover 28 pages / 5,000 words

In 2017 Terence Hannum (Locrian, The Holy Circle, Axebreaker) began writing articles on horror soundtracks for the private monthly newsletter of the Horror Writers Association in a column titled DEAD AIR. This first volume collects the first five articles published in 2017, focusing on the soundtracks for; THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE by Wayne Bell and Tobe Hooper, THE BEYOND by Fabio Frizzi, ANGST by Klaus Schulze, CANDYMAN by Philip Glass, and IT FOLLOWS by Disasterpeace.

ANGST: "Klaus Schulze ... began doing soundtrack work, first for the pornographic film BODY LOVE (1977) and then for ANGST (1984), where he would say in an interview “the film was cut to the music”. In film score production this practice is extremely rare, typically artists play to the film, locking in on precise edits and changes. Shulze, on the other hand, gave the director Kargl long tracks that evolve slowly, repeating arpeggios and rhythms. Really providing more of a palette of sounds for Kargl to edit the film around and by doing so this tense relationship between rhythm and pulse emerges."

Terence Hannum is a Baltimore based visual artist, musician and writer. He has written the novellas BENEATH THE REMAINS, ALL INTERNAL, and THE FINAL DAYS as well as multiple short stories.

Order here: https://anathemataeditions.bigcartel.com/product/dead-air-volume-one

#dead air #anathemata #terence hannum #horror #ost #Texas Chainsaw Massacre #the beyond #angst #candyman #it follows #disasterpeace #Philip glass #Klaus schulze #Fabio frizzi #zine

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hauntologicalmusique-blog · 4 years

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WEEK 15 (w/c 13/04/20)

Further work was done on the composition this week, focussing on silence, rather than filling space. This was an idea given in the last feedback session that suggested more of the space within the video should be taken up with silence, rather than full of sound, as this could cause an undesired overwhelming effect. Silence can be key in horror soundtracks, as evidenced in A Quiet Place (2018), in which Burgos (2018) describes how silence and pauses feel unnerving and unnatural due to our surroundings of noise. This is what was intended for the composition, to feel unnerving and possibly unnatural, leading the research into A Quiet Place to guide the more silent parts of the composition.

An interesting point made by Prudom (2018) is how the sound for A Quiet Place was for the most part, recorded while being filmed, so this approach was taken when filming shots in the forest. This gave for an interesting contrast between the overall non-diegetic musique concrete soundtrack, and the diegetic sound of the forest and the forest shots. This links to last weeks observations about Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s soundtrack of being foley work gone too far (Weingarten, n.d.) and using this idea for the final composition.

It is clear from these observations that the sound for the final composition should include both foley work and electroacoustic sound. While the initial proposal stated that foley work would not be a part of the project, it is evident that even some basic foley would strengthen the project due to the locations that have been used.

REFERENCE LIST

Burgos, D. (2018). Here's Why Silent Movies Like 'A Quiet Place' Creep You Out So Much, According To Science. Retrieved 14 April 2020, from https://www.bustle.com/p/why-a-quiet-places-use-of-silence-creeps-you-out-so-much-according-to-science-8715866

Krasinski, J. (2018). A Quiet Place [Film]. New York: Platinum Dunes.

Prudom, L., 2018. A Quiet Place: John Krasinski And Emily Blunt On The Challenges Of Making An Almost Silent Movie - IGN. [online] IGN. Available at: <https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/03/15/a-quiet-place-john-krasinski-emily-blunt-silent-movie-sound> [Accessed 22 April 2020].

Weingarten, C. 35 Greatest Horror Soundtracks: Modern Masters, Gatekeepers Choose. Retrieved 17 October 2019, from https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/35-greatest-horror-soundtracks-modern-masters-gatekeepers-choose-126190/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-tobe-hooper-and-wayne-bell-1974-104973/

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badgaymovies · 4 years

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

TOBE HOOPER

Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB.

USA, 1974. Vortex. Story by Tobe Hooper, Screenplay by Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper. Cinematography by Daniel Pearl. Produced by Tobe Hooper. Music by Wayne Bell, Tobe Hooper. Production Design by Robert A. Burns. Film Editing by J. Larry Carroll, Sallye Richardson.

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hauntologicalmusique-blog · 4 years

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WEEK 13 (w/c 30/03/20)

This week focussed on the soundtrack for the video, as most of the focus for the project has been on the video thus far. Research was done into horror film soundtracks, and what makes them scary, determining that sudden loud noises are often the best way to get people to feel scared. It was evident that the soundtrack made for the video thus far was definitely on track, but still had a way to go in terms of actually making people scared. Techniques would have to be improved, and further manipulation of sound was to be done in order to properly convey the project.

Reflecting on the proposal, it was evident that a jump scare should be implemented at some point within the video, described as one of the most basic but effective horror tricks in the book (Muir, 2013). This jump scare should ideally be portrayed through the audio, as Bishop (2012) describes, jump scares are often loud, shrilling sounds, accompanied by generally disturbing audio. Research into realism in horror audio found that realistic sounds are often sufficient enough to scare the viewer (Heimerdinger, 2012), for this reason, it was determined that a sound object could take on the role of the jump scare. An unidentified, but realistic sound separate from its source, perhaps this would make the sound even scarier?

This idea was supported through looking back at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre case study, in which it is said that the musique concrete soundtrack is like “background noise turned avant-garde soundtrack, foley work gone too far” (Weingarten, n.d.). This could be the focus for the soundtrack of the video, background noise gone too far, which is what the project thus far has effectively managed to be.

REFERENCE LIST

Bishop, B. (2012). 'Why won't you die?!' The art of the jump scare. Retrieved 11 November 2019, from https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/31/3574592/art-of-the-jump-scare-horror-movies

Heimerdinger, J. (2012). Music and sound in the horror film & why some modern and avant-garde music lends itself to it so well. Seiltanz. Beiträge Zur Musik Der Gegenwart, 4, 14-16. Retrieved from https://www.academia.edu/1510776/Music_and_sound_in_the_horror_film_and_why_some_modern_and_avant-garde_music_lends_itself_to_it_so_well

Muir, J. (2013). Horror Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Slashers, Vampires, Zombies, Aliens, and More. Hal Leonard Corporation.

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