The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) MOVIE REACTION!!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Eric Rick Calvin and Aaron kick off Horror Themed Content for October with a reaction and discussion to the 1974 Movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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"Hereditary" horror movie reaction, please!;
I should probably join the Patreon to suggest this but I heavily suggest Don’t Breathe and Lights Out for horrors that aren’t necessarily gore intensive but rather make your skin crawl and make you clench your entire body while you watch
this movie is actually about the vietnam war and nuclear testing effects if you read between the lines..horror films back then were about messages not whats happening on screen..thats not important..thats what later horror fails to understand...there was a subtle undertone to why horror films were made in the early 70's..
React to "Turistas, Caiam Fora!", it's a american terror movie recorded in Brazil.
Fun fact - Sally's finger was cut FOR REAL at 24:44.
I have heard Gunnar Hansen say that he had trouble with the fake blood tube and eventually got so annoyed by the situation that he decided to just use a real knife instead, so the old man probably sucks Sally's REAL BLOOD in that scene.
This is how we used to roll in Texas, but then after this documentary we had to dial it back a notch.
XD
Its tru 👀
Best comment!!
Thanks for giving me my belly laugh of the day!! Your comment was hilarious!
Lmaooo W 😂
The gas station is a BBQ restaurant now, looks exactly like it does in the movie. It has a horror gift shop with props from the movie.
you got that backwards. the gas station is now a motel. the house is a restaurant. i live a half hour away from the original house and the remake
@@alicedelgado955 actually the gas station is now the gift shop for the motel. the motel rooms are located behind the gas station. but.....they do sell BBQ in the gas station and you can eat it there so in a way it's a restaurant. The original house was moved from where it used to be. The road the truck driver takes off running is no longer in use and overgrown in grass and weeds. The house is a restaurant today.
I was just there last weekend! Good food.
@@Smittyreens I agree, the food is good! My wife and I were there a year ago this month, celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary. Checked out several shooting locations from both the original and and remake.
That's cool
"He shot this movie for a PG rating."
"Yeah?"
"Did he get it?"
"No."
Shocking lol
LMAO
It was actually originally rated X. Tobe Hooper appealed and got an R rating.
PG = Plenty of Gore
@@thisisgreentext2147 PG= Pretty Gnarly
I love how they are voicing Leatherface's thoughts like "Where are all this kids coming from?" and "She locked me out of my own house!" :')
This is probably the funniest reaction I have seen to this movie. Leave it to blind wave to make it hilarious. Girl: Jumps out the window. Eric. “I’m not doing that. I got a chainsaw.” Lol
Hi there😊
This film technically has little gore, but with the subject matter, the grungy look, the intense way it was shot, it feels less like a Hollywood movie and more like a snuff film made by some psycho.
Hell, the movie itself just looks grimy and greasy^^
As if it was found in some abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere.
Makes you want to take a shower.
And that psycho was Tobe Hooper
Gore isn’t just severed limbs and tons of blood. Gore is (in a simple description) intense or severe body horror. There may not be a lot of blood in this movie that there’s several shots of “rotting” corpses which falls under the gore category.
Yep! Total snuff film feel.
Fun fact Gunnar Hansen, the guy who plays Leatherface is not only a big guy but a fast one too, those moments in the movie where he's chasing Sally he constantly had to slow himself down because she's a slow runner. If you watch the movie knowing that fact you can see it yourself several times
"I'd say it holds up."
"Yeah, I would say too, I mean, some truly disturbing shit."
Thank you, guys. So many people dismiss this film for being "dated", but it's so well made for the budget, and the psychological torture of Sally is relentless. It has its flaws as you pointed out, but I can't think of another film with such a macabre atmosphere.
film taught kids not to pick up strangers...
@@cryfly1 Hitler had a different opinion.
@El Vato When I first got into horror and watched this, even tho I saw a lot of modern horror, nothing has really come close to the feeling I get watching TCM. It feels like you're watching something real. House of 1000 Corpses came close to getting the same feel, tho I'm not really sure there will ever be a horror movie made like the original Texas ever again.
Maybe so, but how many times can you truly watch this movie lol unless you’re just truly into it,, but it doesn’t offer much after the 1st or 2nd viewing.
It’s influence and tropes have paved the way for the slasher genre.
The hammer kill really messed me up as a kid, it's just how suddenly it happens and how graphic the death spasms are before he's violently dragged away and the door slams, and that's all there was to his death
That slam and loud echo that follows is very dark and traumatizing when it follows a kill you never see coming that ends as fast as it comes.
The 2nd film with the hammer kill looks so unrealistic. Hell the whole movie itself is unrealistic. More of a comedy honestly.
Eh …..there is no graphic violence in this film.
@@RebelGaming4UThat’s because it’s meant to be a comedy dumbass. Tobe Hooper deliberately made no 2 completely different to the first film.
Meh 🫤… that’s the same way they put down some of the animals on the slaughterhouses so in a way Leatherface killed him like an animal.
15:34 22:27
RICK: he shot this movie for a PG rating. CALVIN moments:......
AARON: did he get it.
RICK: NO.
LMAO
I was just about to comment that, I fucking died XD
Nice time stamp
Which is kinda surprising, given that the movie is pretty tame in terms of overt violence/blood/gore/nudity.
Just shows what a damn joke the MPAA is - even back then.
Joshua Dsouza should have put in a time stamp
‘Leatherface.. I think I’ve heard of that before’ Woah, wasn’t expecting this reaction to be THIS blind, Awesome!
Daltonio SAME! I’m shocked they’ve never heard of The Texas films or Leatherface before. Especially with their background of films
They are nerds. What do you expect? All they know is Darth Vader, Thanos, and Joker. Leatherface is on their level, of most terrifying villains ever.
The scene at the dinner table is just so brutal. I've learned a lot about this series from watching the Dead Meat kill counts.
Yeah
Not from like, watching the actual movies?
@@Ancientumoto no he goes over bts and production of the movies and other facts of them.
@@Ancientumoto He does behind the scenes stuff and I've learned a lot about practical effects and the work that goes into some horror films just for it to be covered up with cg blood.
@@staceyjess8712 no i know who he is. I just dislike ppl who only watch recaps on youtube without acttually watching the movies yaknow? But if you just watching for like the extra trivia and bts stuff then i get that
"I can't get any phone reception out here." - every horror movie for the last 20 years
Poor Leatherface, just tryin to protect his house from all those damn people!!
Yes this is a tale of a true hero protecting his home! When he finally has had enough of these people breaking in he takes the fight......to them
Lol
Leatherface is the victim of psycho brothers.
If raised in the right environment, he would have been a serious worker in a timber sawmill.
for real tho, he had to be thinking where all these people were coming from. He opened his own door and they were standing right there.
Technically, they’re the criminals and he was within his rights to defend his home.
13:05
*Kurt gets hammertimed
*Calvin clearly puts a line through something he's written, presumably Kurt's name.
For some reason this was hilarious to me lmao
Franklin's actor was in character 24/7 and literally everyone hated him! It wasn't until like 10-20 years later everyone found out what a nice guy he was!
Also, when Leatherface cut Sally's finger, that was the actress's actual blood! It was supposed to be fake but the tube that was supposed to shoot out the blood kept clogging and with all the dead animals in the house, it was not a good place to do multiple takes! Between takes Gunner, the actor who played Leatherface, took of a small piece of plastic that was supposed to dull the blade off and cut her for real and for years the actress who played Sally didn't know it was on purpose! If you couldn't guess, this film was hell to make!
you all need to watch Tucker & Dale vs Evil
Soon as i saw them watching rhe beginning of this, thought the exact same thing. May also be because another reactor I watch should be doing it in a cour of weeks :)
LODintheshadows which reactor?
@@MrStyro after work reactions, he mainly focuses on British TV, but started doing movies recently. Just finishing the cornett trilogy right now
This movie makes me wanna take a shower after i watch it...just feels dirty and grimey
its that realization on corner of mind of yeah its rediculous as hell... BUT there have been news stories of ppl as psychotic and crazy like this over the years. the scenes show the idea of that true form of horror and insanity vs say halloween its a psycho just menacingly moving around and kill his targets. here leatherface and his family are crazy ppl, enjoy mutilation and locking ppl up for enjoyment reasons.
Yo I did not expect everyone outside of Rick to not know about the Texas Chainsaw Film Series or even know who Leatherface is.
Didn't surprise me at all. Doesn't seem like they have seen most classics
For them, movies started in 1977.
Yeah the not knowing leatherface is crazy lol
Yeah. Kinda sad
yea when i saw this video i thought "great another movie they all have already seen" but i was so happy they didnt see it.
The reason that Leatherface catches up with Sally was that the actress was so slow and Gunner Hansen (Leatherface) had to stop to cut tree branches just to give her some distance
this bit set me off kaughing, it was clear he was trying not to catch her!
They shot it to be PG, but to be fair PG back then meant something a little different. I mean, Jaws was PG.
It made it scarier imo! Because its all imagination based!
Right. Most films were either PG or R. There was no PG-13.
Still a bunch of BS that it didn't get the PG-rating.
Temple of Doom was closer to a R-rating than this^^
@@arsenelupin9697 it’s not about the gore.
@@hawkflame9584 Yes it is - at least most of the time, because the MPAA are a bunch of hacks.
To stick with an Indiana Jones example: The very first movie had to slightly blur the head-explosion scene or else it wouldn't have received the PG-rating. Everything else - perfectly fine.
Poltergeist got a PG-rating, The Haunting (the original 1963 version) even got a G-rating and that movie has plenty of psychological horror.
I remember watching a documentary about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies and I remember the director saying that Leatherface is really stressed out and confused as to why a bunch of people keep showing up to his house, which is kind of funny.
This is why I like living in the city, I'm terrified of crazy hillbillies
Lol 😆 don't forget people like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho also exist!
Cannibals live in cities too.
I love the movie for the fact people think this is so bloody, but it is one of the least bloody horror films, it takes place in your mind. One of the points this was made during a gas shortage, this family has generators and chainsaw use, no rationing. This is based loosely on Ed Geins who lived out in nowhere, and when he killed people and used their skin and bones around the house.
Yeah, it's like Psycho in that it's not as gory or bloody as people would think they were. The only thing you see in Psycho as far as gore and blood is the blood down the drain and that's it.
My dad was 13 when this came out. He said they only showed it at the drive in theater, where he snuck in threw a gap in the fence with his friend, and he said it was the scariest thing he’d seen and to this day thinks it’s the best horror movie ever made
Even though this movie is dated in a lot of ways, the gore and violence in it is still incredible. And Aaron and Eric's reaction were exactly what you'd expect for someone watching this for the first time
When I watched it for the first time with my sister we just laughed at how ridiculous it was. It’s was our first time watching an old movie but we consider this as a waste of our time. Happy sally made it but I also would’ve been happy if she died. The girl didn’t even try to put up a fight. Getting beat up by a broom was when I knew this was a joke😭
I love this movie and one reason is it shows you don't need a lot of money to make something that has memorable imagery. Two examples that are my favorites are that door slam after Leatherface gets the first guy and the ending shot with him dancing around with the chainsaw. That door slam is such a chilling moment and all he's doing is closing a door. That last shot looks more artistic and cinematic than a movie like this has any right to have in it. There are movies with hundred million dollar budgets that leave no impression, talent makes that big a difference.
Oh my God!! Texas Chainsaw Massacre is my favourite series of horror movies... I was not expecting this! Thank you so much!
RIP Gunnar Hansen, dude was absolutely damn terrifying as Leatherface
Interesting was how they tried to cut her finger and finally Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) pulled the tape off the blade and cut her for real. Also as he was chasing her in the woods, he complained that she ran so slowly that he had to stop and cut branches with the chainsaw so she could pull ahead and he could chase her again.
One other thing was the saw was live with the chain on it real.
This movie is so scary and it doesn't even have that much gore
It just shows you that you don’t need gore to make a scary film! It’s all about the disturbing subject matter!
Just the quality and dull look of the film scares me more than current horror movies
25:47 Apparently the dinner scene was hell to shoot. The food rotted under the hot lights and it made the actors delirious to the point Gunnar Hansen who played Leatherface thought he actually was his character for a bit and thought that he had to actually kill Marilyn Burns who played Sally.
Ah, TCM, the movie where not too much *graphic* stuff happens and you still walk away feeling like you just watched the most graphic and disturbing thing you ever watched.
Like, I can watch the most grindhouse moveis ever. Saw, Terrifier, Hostle without getting too squicked out. I've watched this movie twice, and each time I spent the entire time sitting there wondering *why* I was watching this. It feels so wrong.
That's a real chainsaw not a fake one
"Keep repeating 'It's only a movie, it's only a movie, it's only a movie'" was actually the tagline to Wes Craven's Last House on the Left, released two years before Texas Chain Saw Massacre, so I dunno about that trivia. I can't see him sitting there, repeating the tagline from his own movie. 😆
Aaron and Eric during that jump scare...hilarious.
Crazy. I can finally say I just saw the Texas chainsaw massacre last night. And I must admit. This film still holds up today. Love how you guys mentioned how films today don’t linger anymore. Always quick to cut to the next scene . Just let the scene play out. Wish more films did this more.
Masterpiece for me
"No it's not based off anything" - Rick
Yes it is! It's based on Ed Gein. The guy who possibly killed his younger brother, then two people in his town. Would dig up graves and make furniture using the corpses, including a bowl that was just the top of a human skull. He also would sometimes apparently dress like his mother.
Leatherface and pretty much the whole Sawyer family, Norman Bates from Psycho, and Buffalo Bill and somewhat Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lamb were written from the concept of the Ed Gein murders.
It was inspired loosely it wasn't based on him.
@sarah ei Yes. Even Hannibal being used to find Buffalo Bill is inspired by Bundy helping law enforcement catch the Green River Killer.
Ah yes wonderful October! The screaming at the end of the movie is deafening...
I definitely see RE7 being heavily inspired by this movie, among a few others, like Aaron brought up
35:33 The marking of the van is arguably the beginning of the kids being treated like meat for slaughter. The Hitchhiker brands them, the Cook inspects them (notice the gas station didn't clean off the bloody marks on the van), and eventually the Butcher kills them.
The picture and the gun powder just emphasizes the Hitchhiker loves both art and destruction, which makes sense for a grave robber who likes making art out of corpses and bones.
Marilyn Burns did a great job, though I can't help but wonder how much of it was enforced method acting. They actually cut her finger in the dinner scene because they couldn't get the special effect to work and they'd already been filming for almost 24 hours at that point and just wanted to get the shot done. Then, they messed up filming the last scene, so she burst into laughter during the reshoots when she realized she was finally done with this movie. Though she didn't get a lot of money for this (apparently the Mob-fronted film distribution company actually stole most of the profits for TCM), she cameod in two later movies and has done lots of interviews over the years.
The "Mom" (or more accurately Grandma) was the corpse next to Grandpa, and it's implied that Leatherface crossdresses to fill the void in the family left by her presence.
Buffalo Bill and TCM (and Psycho) were actually all based on the same serial killer, Ed Gein, who mostly grave robbed and dissected corpses into skin suits (he only confirmed killed two people).
Yeah Nubbins basically put a bloody cattle brand on the van to tell his brother Drayton that Sally and friends were the next batch of meat.
These guys would have a blast reacting to the Evil Dead Trilogy
I would just love to see their reaction to the "WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?" scene in ED2
Oh god, yes! They would love Ash vs Evil Dead too
I love these guys I’ve been watching them for 6 years almost half my life
Haxz ive been watching em about 5 years, which is roughly 1/10th of my life...😏
You guys were actually right about what Leatherface was thinking and growing through when everyone kept showing up at the house. in the commentary and interviews, Toby Hooper said that Leatherface was scared, he thinks like a child, and freaking out and wondering where everyone was coming from. he was basically protecting his house and himself. what happened to the truck driver who ran off in the end? a joke says he's still running down that road. but in the movie Texas Chainsaw 3D, he's the guy laying across the counter cut up. So they caught him. But in the original part 2, it's never explained. but it does have Dennis Hopper and you should watch that movie just for him and his insanity. Part 2 has a lot of more of the dark humor that is rare through part 1. It was terrible working in that house filming due to the 100+ degree heat. Leatherface takes the personality of whoever's face he puts on. Also the Cook, or Drayton Sawyer as he's called in part 2, is their older brother. you guys really need to watch part 2 and see how different it is and how tobe hooper put a lot of dark humor in it. who was the window washer? no one knows. but it's said he might have been put their to contrast against Drayton Sawyer, the cook. Drayton as the gas station ownder presented himself as being nice and somewhat normal. but the window washer was off in some way. just not right. Also in reality, the window washer was the owner of the gas station and asked to be in a small roll if they wanted to use the place. The movie does have a memorable sound to it....it's the sound heard in the intro to the movie when the camera flashes. the narrator at the start was John Larroquette. He played Dan Fielding on Night Court. Yes the movie was based off of someone......Ed Gein. A serial killer known for digging up the bodies of dead women, also killing women and wearing their skins. the movie Psycho was also based on Ed Gein, mainly in the relationship to the mother. In the scene where leatherface is chasing Sally through the woods, Gunner Hanson (LF), kept catching up to her. so the director told him to stop every once in a while to cut branches in order to allow Sally to get ahead. It's funny you mention crazy Eddy aka Hitchhiker (Nubbins) as a dummy. Cuz that's basically what he becomes in part 2. He's carried around by his twin brother and his nickname is revealed as Nubbins.
He thinks like a Child 😂😭👿
@@SuperiorNo1 yeah, hes probably metally disabled...
More like he has the mindset of a child. I like how the original series deals with the truck driver, it’s just funny.
Thanks guys! Really enjoyed this reaction. Like Rick, I saw this when I was young (probably too young) and it messed me up for life. If you liked this you should check out "Last House of the Left", "The Cell", "The Descent", or Rob Zombie's "House of 1,000 Corpses" (my favorite). Why do I keep doing this to myself?!?
You guys were cracking me up this entire reaction! LOL "Where are all these damn kids coming from?!" Erik always making me laugh
That very last scene with Leatherface seemingly dancing with his chainsaw as the sunsets behind him is a cinematic masterpiece.
You know this franchise has a crazy cast. In the following films you can see Rene Zellweger, Mathew McConaughey, and Viggo Mortensen.
Everyone says this movie has so much gore! But there's really not, it's the implication of gore and your imagination fills in the rest.
You guys should watch The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2.
Its the only sequel worth watching, and the only one that doesn't retcon the original film.
Its more of a dark comedy, but its still disturbing. Its got one of the best comic relief characters in horror, Chop Top the crazy vietnam war veteran brother of Leatherface.
That movies sucked.
It's weird how not gruesome this film mostly is, because it feels like it's a lot worse than it is in terms of gore and gruesome imagery. It just FEELS grimy and dirty and grubby. Like it's something that that family made themselves.
This movie is SUCH an original. So glad y'all watched it!
In the beginning, when they are knocked over by the side of the road, it is supposed to be the draft of the truck moving at speed that launches both debris and the characters down the hill.
The scene where Pam gets impaled on the meat hook, just after that when Leatherface is cutting up Kirk, Tobe Hooper had to tell William Vail who played Kirk to remain completely still so that we don't really accidentally kill you. Gunner Hansen's (Leatherface) chainsaw which was real and running came 3 inches from Vail's face.
That Calvin comment about tying people up and the reaction to it was sooo funny.
Respect to the gentleman in the middle.
Just enjoying how “horror” and suspense was made in the ‘70’s. Before fake CGI.
Just good ole fashion suspense. Thx.
The narrator was John Larroquette from Night Court/Blind Date.
Let's not forget Stripes.
What the hitchhiker wrote on the van was the log for the BBQ/Gas Station. She finally put two and two together when she was sitting in the office of the gas station and she looked at the BBQ oven. The same logo was on the glass. Leatherface was wearing Kurt's face at the end.
There was an audible “huh?” when I saw this on my feed
The guy who played Grandpa was 18 years old. About 30 years later, he served me mozzarella sticks at a TGIFriday's in Indiana.
My teacher in English Literature used the hook scene from this as an example of effective horror. Leatherface is basically a territorial animal, he just wants to be left alone but these kids keep entering his territory forcing him to eventually go on the defensive, plus the actor playing him spent time in mental wards studying the behavior of patients to enhance his performance, which I still think is one of the scariest in all of cinema as despite his giant size he makes noises like a scared animal which clashes with his appearance adding to his unnerving nature.
Toby Hooper also said he wanted to have some underlining dark comedy in this film, which he played up a lot in the sequel, but I'm glad to see you guys pick up on it here. Plus, the corpse in the attic was a real corpse shipped from another country.
This is amazing!! This is in my top 3 favorite horror movies, right along side The Shining and The Thing!
Edwin Neal (The hitchhiker) real did cut Marilyn Burns (Sally) finger, reading the trivia during filming the weather was 110 degree Texas heat, plus the filming lights meant all the food on the table quickly rotted, and the room's poor ventilation and body odor made the reek even worse, raising it to genuinely health threatening levels and they were filming that seen for 27 hours!
This movie is actually based on Ed Gein.
Also this movie is great
God i love these movie reactions, no matter what film it is the video is always hilarious
Welllll the speculation about the plot at the beginning wasn't wrong, per se! Leatherface has a horrible time with these strangers getting into his house. I love how quickly you guys pick up on that, how scared he is about these kids intruding.
32:16 Kinda funny considering a few years after the movie came out they uprooted that house and moved it to an entirely new plot of land somewhere else.
What's cool is that also with Leatherface inspired by Ed Gein, the film can be looked as social commentary on the meat industry. In the late 60s and 70s alot of cattle developed "Mad Cow disease" which resulted from eating feed that contained other bits of chopped up cattle. When an animal eats another animal, a brain disease developed. This resulted due to lax regulation of beef, and factory beef standards. As a result, the brains of the cows (which you used to be able to purchase and eat before) were removed once it headed for inspection and to the groceries. The movie shows the slaughter house in the beginning which Franklin's father used to work at. The movie's "music" or filmic sound comprises of animals in a stock pen before being slaughter, and many of the characters are killed with butcher tools. Even the Gas station which had "barbecue" is indicated to be other humans. And to top it all off, it's set in Texas, a Major cattle, beef, and bbq state. Adding this view on top of the inspiration of real life grave robber Ed Gein, on top of other major themse developed from the 70's makes this an awesome horror film. Also, it's just a great horror movie.
My mom watched this in theaters when she was a teenager, and she looked over her shoulder in a panic the entire walk home that night.
Haven't watched the reaction yet but this is my favourite horror movie of all time and I'm so glad you did this.
A perfect ending.
There is a message to the movie. Tobe Hooper, the director, was equating humans being butchered like animals for food. The bbq at the gas station is not made from pork or beef. Also, it's never been confirmed as for as I know but it makes sense that Leatherface is the guy compulsively washing the truck. Makes sense to me since obviously there are no outsiders working at that gas station/bbq joint.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) gets my subscription
The The Texas Chainsaw Massacre started the slasher genre in October of 1974 along with the Canadian film Black Christmas also released the same month and starring Margot Kidder who would later go on to play Lois Lane in the original Richard Donner Superman movies. You guys should watch that next start at the beginning ya know?
Leatherface has a mind of a child so he thinks he's just protecting his household his killing means nothing as his family taught him this way he don't even understand he's doing terrible things
completely addicted to you guys! Hi from Brazil!
Fun fact : the finger cut for grandpa was real as can be. Real blood, real slurping 🤮
17:10 Aaron: ''a little weird...''
*Eric looking at Aaron*
Aaron: ''Weird.''
13:05 that one scene sacred me so much as a kid
" ... Imagine being a disappointment to THAT guy..." Great comment. .... PEACE to ALL
"This came out four years before Halloween, so it's a fairly early horror movie."
Me, watching Nosferatu: 🤔
yeah lmfao pretty funny they think 70s is "early"
So many people are like that.I was talking movies with a younger co-worker a few weeks ago and we got into talking about vintage cartoons.He was like "I only watch old cartoons,like Futurama".
That truck driver just bolts off like an NPC out of GTA 🤣🤣
I love the grungy look they got from shooting on 16mm film.
"Why did he move?!"
Try standing on the roadside when a semi barrels by. 😆
Love this movie! We drove to Texas back in 2002 (Texas is awesome by the way!), and I told my wife we'll be fine, but we're staying on the Interstates, no back roads!!! I love how this movie was shot and it totally makes you feel like it's a documentary. And with the beginning narration, further locks in that it was real. Of course it's not, and partially based on Ed Gein from Wisconsin. I also love the first sequel from the 1980s, also directed by Toby Hooper. More black comedy and gore vs. horror. The 3rd one isn't horrible, but the 4th one is junk. The 2000's remake and prequel are pretty good too. Gotta love R. Lee Ermey!
That sounds like an awesome premise for a film Eric, and you should film it. Blind Wave's first full film project. And ten years later, you guys are the new Blumhouse
The Hitchiker didn’t show them the pictures of the dead bodies from graveyard. That was his private collection.
Please review the remake with Jessica Beal
I grew up in Childress, which is mentioned in the movie. I have been asked multiple times about the real events happening there (which they didn’t). It was in Wisconsin instead of Texas, and there wasn’t a chain saw.
Leatherface wore the same clothes for the entire shoot, no washing to maintain continuity. Apparently stunk to high heaven.
I'm no filmmaking student or expert but even as a layman, you can tell this movie has a lot of innovative and different shots and cinematography for a horror movie that ofc was never appreciated because of its subject matter.
Fun facts about TCM:
-Film was shot in the dead summer of Texas, so it was incredibly hot on the set. Early scenes with the chicken in the cage. "Leatherface" actor had to smack the cage, whenever he ran by, just to keep the chicken alive.
-The scene when they cut "Sally's" finger to feed grandpa, the actors were so tired, hot, exhausted, crazy, they actually cut her finger on purpose cause they were so done with working. So her reaction was real. She wasn't expecting to actually be cut.
-The chainsaw is 100% real. The scene at the beginning when he's cutting the body in front of the girl on the hook. The actor was a few inches from his face with a real chainsaw. Scenes where "leatherface" is running with it. The actor fell during a scene and nearly killed himself. So when you see him run in the film, notice he doesn't change directions quickly, because he couldn't see with the mask on... So he gave himself a greater stride.
-The same director of photography (Daniel Pearl) also did the remake in 2003 with Jessica Biel.
-The actress who played "Sally" actually jumped off the second story roof of the house. She went through the stunt glass, but the shot of her hitting the ground, is actually of her jumping off the roof and hitting the ground, for real. She ran slow in the movie because she was actually hurt.
-The movie is almost bloodless.
Definitely react to more horror classics like this! 👍
Rosemary's Baby! Completely different, but same period
Here are some fun facts about this movie. The blood in the movie was pigs blood which made the sets smell awful so the actors would constantly run to windows. The skulls and skeletons were real skeletons that the director bought cause it was cheaper. The heat was so bad that during the scene where leather face cuts her finger with a knife. The hose that was gonna spurt the blood kept fucking up and pissing off the actor that plays leather face. He secretly took off the protection tape from the knife and actually cut her finger. Note: i got these from the channel called "fact fiend" he does great stuff
The 74' original still gets the props.
The remake and it's prequel from the 2000s were good.
Texas Chainsaw 3D was not my cup of tea.
I have to recommend watching House of 1000 corpses by Rob Zombie. Its an insane movie.
I'm pretty sure Julia Louis Dreyfus borrowed the "Jerry" yell from Franklin for The Parking Garage episode
You guys should react to The Lighthouse. I think that would be a great movie for you all to watch.
If you like this you probably enjoy the Orginal Last House on the Left by Wes Craven or The Hills Have Eyes.
I watched the remake and that has established my fear of gore movies like I'm NOT frightened by ghost-based horror movies but this! Coz I'm a skeptic when it comes to ghosts and definitely believe that we should be afraid of the living than the dead coz this sort of things can really happen in real life. Then, here I am, wanna watch your reaction although I know I'm gonna freak out!
Too date, this is still the scariest movie I've ever watched.