The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviews

Comments (2) | Original Score: 2/5

The movie is some kind of weird, off-the-wall achievement. I can't imagine why anyone would want to make a movie like this, and yet it's well-made, well-acted, and all too effective.

Full Review | Comments (37) | Original Score: 2/4

Comments (2) | Original Score: 0/5

Cultish trash set new low standards for brutality.

Comments (16) | Original Score: 1/5

Chainsaw-wielding Leatherface remains one of the most disturbing characters in horror.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 4/5

Best for older teens and adults only.

Full Review | Comment (1) | Original Score: 3/5

...the only other film to truly capture that uniquely unsettling promise of Romero's first zombie epic was Tobe Hooper's absolutely perverted directorial debut...

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The documentary-style approach is what pushes this flick over the top; it's a grim and glorious classic of modern horror.

Comment | Original Score: 5/5

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.

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It defies all efforts at criticism. Condemning it misses the point, while praising it assumes a proper context in which to place it. It simply is, beyond all notions of taste or judgment.

Comment | Original Score: 5/5

It's a masterpiece, pure and simple..a smart young director summing up the basest instincts of his species.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 10/10

The Great American Horror Movie.

Full Review | Comments (4) | Original Score: 5/5

Comment | Original Score: 4/5

Seeing this again recently has convinced me that it's quite a bit better than I initially judged.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre loses none of its intensity as the years go by.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/5

Still a remarkable and utterly unnerving horror film to this day...

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 4/4

Artfully documentarylike and shot under conditions that produced genuinely traumatized performances, the original Massacre eschews cheap thrills and attacks the psyche.

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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.

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goofy and only occasionally scary

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/5

Ao lado de Dementia 13 e Halloween, este filme representa uma das bases do horror moderno, chocando o espectador com sua edição nervosa, seu sadismo assustador e com a histeria impressionante de Marilyn Burns.

Comment (1) | Original Score: 5/5