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| Image: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
Loosely based on the grisly exploits of American serial killer, Ed Gein, (also a model for Psycho's Norman Bates), Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre rightly deserves its place in the canon of horror classics. Five teenagers travelling through Texas pick up a creepy hitchhiker and find themselves at the receiving end of a macabre, nightmarish reversal of southern hospitality.
From its eerie opening images to its shocking finale, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre offers up an unrelentingly grim vision of family dynamics and the American psyche. The recent big budget remake, though it holds its own in the gruesome stakes, isn't equal to the original in raw power.
'The most purely horrifying horror movie ever made' - Kim Newman, Empire Magazine.
