{"id":24438,"date":"2023-11-27T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/?p=24438"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:11:27","slug":"the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"24438\" class=\"elementor elementor-24438\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1adea6b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"1adea6b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ab85f47\" data-id=\"ab85f47\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07179bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"07179bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>As I&#8217;ve said in previous blogs, I was not a horror movie fan growing up.<\/p><p>It was not until 2022 that I finally watched all of the Freddy Krueger and Jason movies.<\/p><p>As of November 26 of 2023, I can say that I finally saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.<\/p><p>I watched the 40th anniversary (the movie is now 50 years old as of this writing) DVD with 4 commentary tracks.<\/p><p>Director\/Producer\/Co-Writer Tobe Hooper made this movie in 1973.<\/p><p>It eventually spawned several sequels and remakes, but this is the original.<\/p><p>I can definitely say it is a scary movie, but not a very bloody\/gory movie like I thought it would be.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s way more of a psychological horror movie.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s about a group of people on a road trip that goes very wrong, in which (spoiler alert) most of them are killed by a cannibal named Leatherface, who uses a chainsaw to cut up their bodies and he and his two brothers eat them and their other victims.<\/p><p>Most of this is not shown, again this is not a blood and guts movie by any means, but if you watch it, you get the point.<\/p><p>Very effective story, and it still holds up.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s always been heralded as one of the scariest movies (it was not shown in UK theaters for 28 years because it was deemed unacceptable viewing to the general public) , and even though it&#8217;s not very bloody, I&#8217;ll agree it&#8217;s definitely scary.<\/p><p>And even though it was a very low budget movie, it was well done, and again, still holds up 50 years later.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a849f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7a849f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><!-- default-view.php -->\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview default-view\n\t\t\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-3d6f707efa78abfecb0cfc72f650f394-1\"\n\tdata-nextgen-gallery-id=\"317\"\n\tdata-gallery-id=\"317\"\n\t\tdata-gallery-name=\"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movie\"\n\t>\n\n\t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tngg-3-columns\t\t\t\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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It was not until 2022 that I finally watched all of the Freddy Krueger and Jason movies. As of November 26 of 2023, I can say that I finally saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie. I watched the 40th anniversary (the movie is now 50 years old as of this writing) DVD with 4 commentary tracks. Director\/Producer\/Co-Writer Tobe Hooper made this movie in 1973. It eventually spawned several sequels and remakes, but this is the original. I can definitely say it is a scary movie, but not a very bloody\/gory movie like I thought it would be. It&#8217;s way more of a psychological horror movie. It&#8217;s about a group of people on a road trip that goes very wrong, in which (spoiler alert) most of them are killed by a cannibal named Leatherface, who uses a chainsaw to cut up their bodies and he and his two brothers eat them and their other victims. Most of this is not shown, again this is not a blood and guts movie by any means, but if you watch it, you get the point. Very effective story, and it still holds up. It&#8217;s always been heralded as one of the scariest movies (it was not shown in UK theaters for 28 years because it was deemed unacceptable viewing to the general public) , and even though it&#8217;s not very bloody, I&#8217;ll agree it&#8217;s definitely scary. And even though it was a very low budget movie, it was well done, and again, still holds up 50 years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-movie-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24438"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24448,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24438\/revisions\/24448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}