After failing to score some gas, they stumble upon a mentally unwell hitchhiker who starts rambling on about the old town slaughterhouse. Sally, her wheelchair-bound brother, Franklin, and friends Pam, Kirk, and Jerry, are headed back to Sally and Franklin’s home town in the heart of Texas for a little mini-vacation. That’s what good horror movies are good at – they identify an experience that all of us are scared of and they ask, what would happen if you really found yourself in that experience? We get to live it, but from the safety of the movie theater. It doesn’t mean that when you go on that road trip and you take some barely traveled road into some sketchy decaying town that you aren’t thinking, “Um, am I going to end up being turned into a rack of barbecue?” But that doesn’t mean you don’t fear it in the back of your mind. It’s very likely you will never find yourself kidnapped by an insane crazy backwoods family in your lifetime. There’s something to be said for preying on our “worst case scenario” fears in a fake, and therefore, safe, medium. Is it a good thing that we’ve ditched this sub-genre? The industry doesn’t like exploitative violence that doesn’t seem to have any point other than making people suffer – women in particular. ![]() While director Tobe Hooper would go on to have a successful career after the film, nobody else on the production or cast would experience any success in the business. The actor who played the hitchhiker said shooting his scenes was the worst experience he’d ever had in his life due to the extreme heat and excessive body odor. ![]() ![]() Premise: A group of teens on a homecoming vacation stumble upon the ultimate house of horrors, with a chainsaw-wielding maniac using his home as a de facto human slaughterhouse.Ībout: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre shoot was infamously harrowing due to how hot it was (the movie was shot in 100 degree Texas heat for weeks).
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