The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviews
Flix Capacitor
Though certain aspects of the film don't hold up that well, Tobe Hooper's seminal horror remains a hugely disturbing experience.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Independent
Chainsaw-wielding Leatherface remains one of the most disturbing characters in horror.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Crazed
Still a remarkable and utterly unnerving horror film to this day...
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| Original Score: 4/4
Common Sense Media
Best for older teens and adults only.
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| Original Score: 3/5
BBC
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre doesn't try anything funny, there are no winks to the audience. And it's all the better because of it.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Oregonian
Artfully documentarylike and shot under conditions that produced genuinely traumatized performances, the original Massacre eschews cheap thrills and attacks the psyche.
Eye for Film
All these elements set the stage for some of the most prolonged scenes of sustained panic ever captured by cinema, as Hooper infects characters and viewers alike with the thrill of a madness from which there can be no real escape.
DustinPutman.com
A cutthroat, unendingly bleak masterpiece of horror cinema.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Antagony & Ecstasy
It's a masterpiece, pure and simple..a smart young director summing up the basest instincts of his species.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Combustible Celluloid
Seeing this again recently has convinced me that it's quite a bit better than I initially judged.
Film4
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre loses none of its intensity as the years go by.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Austin Chronicle
The violence is outdated by today's standards, but the original Chainsaw still packs a punch with its rough look and disturbing overtones.
Top CriticThe picture gets to you more through its intensity than its craft, but Hooper does have a talent.
Despite the heavy doses of gore in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper's pic is well-made for an exploiter of its type.
eFilmCritic.com
The Great American Horror Movie.
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| Original Score: 5/5
TheMovieReport.com
The film's intense final half achieves its unshakable effect through a combination of things aside from graphic gore.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Film Freak Central
A profoundly sensitive look at social prejudices and the toll said prejudices take on the human social organism.
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| Original Score: 4/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
An intelligent, absorbing, and deeply disturbing horror film that is nearly bloodless in its depiction of violence.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Groucho Reviews
In his laughing-outlaw way, Hooper pointed a new direction for horror cinema. [2-Disc Ultimate Edition Reviewed]
| Original Score: 3.5/4
