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duranduratulsa · 3 months

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Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #thetexaschainsawmassacre #texaschainsawmassacre #tobehooper #RIPTobeHooper #leatherface #gunnarhansen #ripgunnarhansen #marilynburns #ripmarilynburns #EdwinNeal #terrimcminn #paulapartain #rippaulapartain #JimSiedow #ripjimsiedow #AllenDanziger #williamvail #JohnLarroquette #vintage #vhs #70s #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsashorrorshow

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literarysiren · 1 year

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In a year surprisingly awash with disabled characters in genre film, I made these two companion pieces, and one of them even inspired a podcast episode. I'm a Franklin Hardesty apologist.

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horrororman · 1 year

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Remembering #PaulAPartain (May 3, 1946 - January 28, 2005).🕯

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halloweenmoviewatchlist · 7 months

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

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horrorwaveofgrain00000 · 2 years

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#texas chainsaw massacre #1974 #horror #horror movie #gunnar hansen #paul a partain #teri mcminn #allen danziger #edwin neal #jim siedow

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toomuchlovereviews · 6 months

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

⭐️⭐️⭐️ .5

I know gays that decorate their house just like this, and I never once thought of them as someone that would be happy-go-lucky with a chainsaw.

And, to be totally honest, none of this would have happened if they hadn’t trespassed into a stranger’s house. Not saying they had it coming, but I think common sense should kick in at some point.

Plot was compelling, Leatherface is a cool villain, but I think some scenes could have been condensed - especially when the introductory scenes used text and a news broadcast to set the scene. Slightly lazy storytelling.

Side note: If you watch this on Tubi, like I did, the ads come in at the FUNNIEST times.

Watch this if:

You prefer off-screen horror

You can get past the last 30 minutes being only screams

Similar titles:

Halloween (1978) (scary, crazy, silent guy with a weapon)

Gaia (2021) (psychological thriller, great if you like the rural/eco horror)

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worrygutz · 18 days

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Marilyn Burns and Paul Partain briefly discussing Tobe Hooper’s behind the scenes manipulation antics (from the Texas chainsaw discussion and commentary)

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weirdlookindog · 10 months

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - VHS Cover

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spookytuesdaypod · 9 months

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spooky tuesday is a (now not so new!) podcast where we’re breaking down all of our favorite slashers, thrillers, monster movies and black comedies on the new scariest day of the week.

how has it taken us this long to cover one of the most influential films in horror history? on our latest episode of spooky tuesday, we're throwing it back to one of the very first final girls with the texas chain saw massacre (1974). the film that both introduced Leatherface to the world and invented the power tool as an instrument of psychological damage, this scary '70s story made a lasting impact on both the culture and hitchhiking crime statistics. but there's more to talk about than just that. despite the torture porn connotations of the franchise at large, the original flick is pretty subtle — and it's absolutely stunning, too.

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the-spooky-mind-of-spiderwish · 3 months

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#the texas chain saw massacre #tobe hooper #marilyn burns #paul partain #70s #horror

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headcheese1973 · 2 years

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duranduratulsa · 2 months

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Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #thetexaschainsawmassacre #texaschainsawmassacre #texaschainsawmassacre50 #tobehooper #riptobehooper #leatherface #gunnarhansen #ripgunnarhansen #marilynburns #ripmarilynburns #EdwinNeal #terrimcminn #paulapartain #rippaulapartain #JimSiedow #ripjimsiedow #AllenDanziger #williamvail #JohnLarroquette #vintage #vhs #70s #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsashorrorshow

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adamwatchesmovies · 1 year

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

I know these words get tossed around often but I mean it when I say The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of the scariest films ever made. Even if you don’t agree, its influence on the horror genre is undeniable.

Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns), her paraplegic brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) and their friends Jerry (Allen Danziger), Kirk (William Vail), and Pam (Teri McMinn) are travelling by van through the countryside to visit an old family home. After encountering a disturbed hitchhicker (Edwin Neal), they cross paths with a family of cannibals.

Immediately striking is the picture’s knack for feeling more documentary than fiction. The conversations between the young adults are innane and they speak over each other like normal friends do. Aside from the news-like voice over (by John Larroquette) at the beginning, little about what you see foreshadows what’s coming. When characters die, the violence is brief, almost as if the cameraman is eager to leave the scene of a real-life crime. When the film’s most memorable character, Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), appears, it’s out of nowhere and shocking. At any point, you’re never quite sure who the main character is and therefore, you never know quite when the picture will end. Similarly, there are no character arcs or typical “film-y” conventions. Many of the most frightening and shocking scenes happen during the day, adding extra credibility to this tale of horror.

These elements combined make this a living nightmare. The violence is often left to your imagination. You see just enough to know you don't want to see more. It’s a nearly overwhelmingly bleak film, particularly when the cannibals overwhelm the heroes and laugh about the fact that they’ve done this before and plan on doing this again. While many horror films play up the morbid humor inherent to a killer picking people off one by one in increasingly gruesome ways, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre piles on the dread relentlessly. A prolonged scene has Sally running from the chainsaw-wielding maniac, screaming at the top of her lungs. It just keeps going and going. You wonder when it’s going to stop because it makes you uncomfortable. But that’s the thing. You’re uncomfortable because you can’t do anything about it and you know, deep down, that no one is coming to save her from those dark woods. It’s traumatizing and gives a double-meaning to the picture’s tagline “Who will survive, and what will be left of them”?

By the time your mind comes to grips with what’s just happened, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has already moved on. You’re never given the footing necessary to recover from what you see. Just thinking about the film's final scene gives me chills. The use of music, the camera work, the lightning, the simple but effective scares and the realistic presentation make this 1974 film still terrifying today. (On Blu-ray, October 26, 2018)

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horrororman · 5 months

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Remembering Paul A. Partain (November 22, 1946 - January 28, 2005).🕯

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screencapsus · 1 year

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

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blood-sucking-freaks · 1 year

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre Facts

TCM is one of my favorite movies so here's some facts :)

-Bubba's real name is not known. Neither is Nubbins. But, at one point Drayton calls Bubba 'Junior', so we know he's either named after Grandpa Sawyer or their late/absentee father, though as neither are named, Bubba's name was never revealed.

-Gunnar Hansen wanted Bubba to be able to speak broken sentences, but the idea was shut down by Tobe Hooper

-Was originally supposed to be titles 'Head Cheese'. The title was later changed to 'Leatherface'. A week before filming was supposed to begin the title was finally changed to 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'.

-The dinner scene was shot in one day. It took 27 hours. It was so hot that the meat was rotting, so between the heat and the smell, cast and crew members were running out of the house every few minutes to throw up. It was filmed in one day because John Dugan, Grandpa Sawyer's actor, refused to sit through the 10 hour makeup process more than once, so all of the scenes with Grandpa had to be filmed at once.

-Most cast and crew, especially Gunnar, didn't like Paul Partain, Franklin's actor, as he stayed in character during the entire process of filming. When the two met again after filming and Gunnar realized that Paul was simply method acting they became close friends up until Paul's death.

-Gunnar was avoided by most people during filming. The cast of Bubba's victims avoided him because they didn't want to be around their killer. Gunnar wasn't allowed to take off his wool costume, so the heavy clothing and the Texan summer heat resulted in him being very smelly.

-Marilyn Burns was really cut during the scene where Grandpa drinks Sally's blood. After multiple takes of the scene, Gunnar got annoyed and secretly took the protective tape off the knife being used and actually cut her to get a more authentic reaction.

-The chainsaw was real and almost hurt several cast and crew members, Gunnar included.

-The armadillo in the beginning of the movie was taxidermized by Tobe Hooper.

-During the time of filming, the 'Sawyer house' was owned and lived in by a family, so the production was only allowed to rent the right section of the house.

-The house is now relocated and restored, and used as a restaurant called the Grand Central Cafe.

-The bones and meat were real, as it was cheaper to rent real human bones and use actual dead animals than to make fake ones.

-Makeup artist Dottie Pearl accidentally injected herself with formaldehyde during the preparations of the dead animals.

-Tobe Hooper got the initial idea for the movie while he was Christmas shopping in the hardware section of a crowded store, when he saw a chainsaw display while thinking of a way to get out of the crowd.

-Edwin Neal, Nubbin's actor, is a Vietnam veteran. When asked how hard filming the movie was, he said that he's rather go back to Vietnam than reshoot the movie. He also said that if he ever saw Tobe Hooper again he might kill him.

-The film was shot mostly in chronological order.

-The last shot filmed was Bubba cutting his leg. Gunnar wore a metal plate over his leg and a piece of meat and a blood bag was placed on top.

-Gunnar's costume had one dyed shirt, so it couldn't be washed during the entire time filming.

-The movie took four weeks of filming every day, though it was only supposed to take two weeks.

-The victim's van belonged to one of the sound recordists, Ted Nicolaou.

-Bubba's teeth were special prosthetics made by Gunnar's dentist.

-At 6'4, Gunnar got multiple slight head injuries due to doorways and other objects. The Leatherface mask limited his peripheral vision severely. Even at his height, he had to wear three inch heels (which makes Bubba canonically 6'7).

-By the last day's shoot, Marilyn Burns' costume was so drenched in blood that it was practically solid. While most of the blood is fake, a lot of it was real, as she got badly cut on branches and undergrowth during the scene where Bubba chases Sally to the gas station,

-During the last night of shooting, the cast got high on pot brownies brought by Dottie Pearl. The brownies had to be hidden when Tobe Hooper's mother visited the set.

-Nubbin's death scene was shot in reverse.

-The narrator for the intro was payed in weed.

-During the scene where Bubba and Nubbins bring Grandpa downstairs, Gunnar kept pushing the rocking chair forwards, sending John falling into Edwin, which left neither party very happy. Gunnar kept doing this until John leaned into his ear and whispered threats.

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