Review of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) by Henryesparza — 04 Sep 2016

I have a love/hate relationship with this movie.

Love: The scares you get. The horrific villain. The 24 hours you get where you literally can't sleep. The horrific, torturous last 40 minutes.

Hate: (spoliers) The one guy that that girl runs into just happens to be the father/uncle of that one mother******. I mean I know they're close to the house and everything, but realistically what are the chances of that.

All in all, I rate the movie a 9 because the whole last 40 minutes of the film are absolute torture. That's were most horror movies fail these days. You get too many breaks in between the action. This does the complete opposite of that. The first 40ish minutes of the film you get sporadic scares. Couple of shots of Leatherface killing people no biggie.

In the last 40 minutes $hit starts getting fu**ed up.

It is basically torture what you have to endure in that last part of the film. Leatherface and his disturbed family just abuse the **** out of Sally the little cute blonde girl. Even at the last second when she's barely getting away and it looks like she's gone, she can't get into the damn pickup truck and you're still gasping for air trying to not get your heart to reach 200bpm.

(no spoilers now).

I like to compare this movie to one of those drop of death rides in theme parks. The buildup is gold, and then the culmination of the ride is so heartrushing you can't even breathe.