The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 23m
  •  (2)
  • 87

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Release Date:

Oct 4, 1974

Runtime:

1hr 23m

Synopsis

Two siblings visit their grandfather's grave in Texas along with three of their friends and are attacked by a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.

Cast

  • Marilyn Burns
  • Gunnar Hansen
  • Allen Danziger
  • Paul A Partain
  • William Vail
  • Teri McMinn
  • Edwin Neal
  • Jim Siedow
  • John Dugan
  • John Larroquette

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Metacritic

87
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Based on 12 Critics
7.8

USER SCORE (187)

Generally favorable reviews based on 187 Reviews
100

The film has outstanding sound effects, art direction and editing, and a clutch of effective, if necessarily, one-note performances.

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Metacritic review by Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire
50

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is as violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises -- a real Grand Guignol of a movie. It’s also without any apparent purpose, unless the creation of disgust and fright is a purpose. And yet in its own way, 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.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
100

What separates Texas Chainsaw Massacre from its predecessors is its anarchic, cynical hysteria—its bizarre and dark-as-hell gallows humor.

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Metacritic review by Eric Henderson
Eric Henderson
Slant Magazine
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