The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Cast

John Larroquette
as Narrator
Gunnar Hansen
as Leatherface
Marilyn Burns
as Sally
Edwin Neal
as Hitchhiker

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Genres & Description

Action Horror Thriller

7.5 / 10

En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...

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Comments on this trailer
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Phoenix8278

Person: I’m not scared of Leatherface and I never will be! Me: So you’re not scared of a fat cannibalistic man who’s wearing another person’s face carrying a chainsaw? Ok. Completely understandable. - @Saturday, November 3, 2018 3:32 AM

thenamestheygivearedumb

This reminds me of the time I got caught in bed with someone's wife. - @Monday, October 22, 2018 3:33 AM

Cody Culp

Have the ex rental vhs - @Monday, June 4, 2018 7:44 PM

Cody Culp

Back when movies were great - @Monday, June 4, 2018 7:44 PM

Word Unheard

Rex Reed's words must have carried a lot of weight, back in the 70's. They use the same quote from him at the beginning of the trailer, and at the end. - @Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:16 PM

Johnny Allright

Before Micheal Myers, before Jason, before Freddy, before Pinhead, before Chucky, before Hannibal Lecter, before Candy man, before Ghost face before Jigsaw and before Hillary Clinton. - @Thursday, November 2, 2017 4:48 AM

Yokomoto Yokomoto

I love this movie - @Sunday, October 8, 2017 3:39 PM

GhostManBrandonDDpre

Big screen is the way to go. You get to meet the other fans too, some whom are also frightening. This is my favorite horror film and I think , the best non-supernatural or sci-fi horror movie ever made. Everybody gets hurt in this and it looks real, with a low body count and most deaths off camera. Great stuff with almost no budget. Film festivals and midnight movies might be your best bet now. Toby Hooper changed horror movies forever with TCM, it is good to see him being honored for it and his other work (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Fun House, Salem's Lot). A great talent, equal to Romero and Carpenter. SYFY channel showed TCM pretty much unedited about 8am the Saturday after he died. Good for them. His second TCM, way more violent and actually funny, is pretty good too. - @Thursday, October 5, 2017 9:52 PM

Stigma

RIP Tobe Hooper! RIP Gunnar Hansen! - @Monday, August 28, 2017 9:41 PM

latino heat

Love this old horror clasic. One of the scariest movies ive seen. Tobe hooper rip - @Monday, August 28, 2017 12:40 AM

supermariofan03

R.I.P. to Tobe Hooper. The man who gave us this very creative horror film. - @Sunday, August 27, 2017 7:23 AM

Luis Rocha

Michael jason friddy and rob zombie suck chainsaw massacre best - @Friday, May 26, 2017 6:32 AM

riversidepete 61

best horror film ever...hands down! - @Monday, October 31, 2016 12:22 AM

riversidepete 61

hands down, the scariest horror film of all time! - @Monday, October 31, 2016 12:19 AM

Haider Sabir

This movie is so scary and really intense one of my favourite horror flims I watched this when 14 now I'm 29 - @Sunday, October 9, 2016 4:49 PM

Natasa Smolcic

this movie will always scary and freaky - @Friday, July 22, 2016 4:24 AM

LOUIS RAMOS

RIP GUNNAR (LEATHER FACE) HANSEN 🔪⛓ - @Monday, November 9, 2015 4:20 AM

mymatejake

One of me favourites, like Wolf Creek too. - @Friday, August 14, 2015 8:59 AM

Kurt Kurdt

Ahhhhh! Great! - @Friday, August 7, 2015 6:33 AM

Deon Reagan

Still one of the most terrifying horror movie ever. - @Monday, June 22, 2015 7:53 AM

Curtis Sims

Classic movie. Very raw and intense. Tame by today's standards but still a great flick. - @Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:42 PM

The Vault Master

I've seen this on the big screen twice, and watching it with a crowd vastly changed my opinion of TCM. The second time I got to witness a rare old Bryanston print in 35mm. Being crammed into a tiny theater (it seated about 150 people), with old uncomfortable wooden seats, and a sticky floor made for an amazing grindhouse experience. There is no other way you could ever watch the movie and fully enjoy it the way folks did back in '74! - @Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:21 AM

Jason Stack

man, could that girl scream !! we double dated to the drive in in 1974, we were all juniors....40 mins . in the GIRLS said get us out hear NOW. falls church ,va. - @Wednesday, October 23, 2013 3:01 AM

cyranothecat

Agree. The great American horror movie. - @Friday, October 11, 2013 8:15 AM

Gregory Canfield

Rex Reed got it right. This is the most horrorfying motion picture ever made. I saw this when first released and, in almost 40 years, I have yet to see another film that even comes close. It is the ultimate depiction of how cruel and indifferent people are capable of being to each other. Don't we see evidence of that all around us? - @Wednesday, September 4, 2013 11:03 PM

John Jones

this was based on actual events - @Tuesday, September 3, 2013 3:54 AM

MichaelNicle

this movie is like Wine. The older it get's the better and creepiest it is !!! - @Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:37 PM

Ralph Palma

ONE MOVIE TO END THEM ALL - @Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:01 PM

MrHorror1971

what i like about it is that there's sound effects instead of music blaring out and distracting you from the scene leading up to the frightening points the effects are great most movies now days use way to much music for the scare factor sometimes even blurring out the dialogue - @Sunday, July 14, 2013 5:32 PM

Dark Globe

Trash trailer? Yeah right! This is awesome! - @Saturday, July 13, 2013 6:41 AM

bcc1976

There are two movies that frightened me as an adult: The Blair Witch Project (saw it when I was in college) and this. The Blair Witch Project was not scary after the first viewing, although it's still creepy. This movie frightens me every time I watch it. This is my favorite horror film and one of my favorite movies. It's truly magnificent. - @Thursday, July 11, 2013 3:13 AM

DJBeast

so true - @Thursday, June 27, 2013 2:29 PM

Christina Saccente

screw the remake, this shit was real - @Monday, April 8, 2013 11:03 PM

JackChap1

I love how the narrator says "This is the horror movie to end them all" But in reality, this movie pretty much started them all. Sure there were films before it but this one was just... can't even explain it. It's just incredible. - @Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:37 PM

TEVIN WILLIAMS

Don't worry , me and a friend are releasing a fan film sequel to the original that is going to have the same look and feel - @Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:17 PM

Godzilla52

It's sad that Hollywood has essentially ruined the legacy of this movie by releasing a ton of sequels and prequels, all of which were crap, the same thing happened with the Halloween movies. I really wish Hollywood would release more original horror movies that focused of subtlety and atmosphere to build suspense instead of gore and shock factor, i have no problem with gore in a movie, but the gore should be used to compliment the tension, not to replace it. - @Tuesday, January 8, 2013 1:40 PM

AngelofAnguish

In my opinion, the REMAKE, let alone the two sequels, the TCM: the Next Generation, and the TCM: the Beginning, WASN'T EVEN NECESSARY! Speaking of TCM, I just saw the trailer for the TCM 3D, which is coming out next near, here on YouTube. In my opinion, it looked REALLY DUMB! In my opinion, some people just don't know WHEN to "stop cashing in on a cult classic craze!" - @Sunday, November 4, 2012 3:27 AM

Ali Jome

im gonna download and see why it is among top 10 horror movies ?? i dont think i'll like it but i'll give it a try - @Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:13 PM

Eric Janvier

The only thing I couldn't get over was Franklin, dude annoyed me to no end and I was glad he got fucked up - @Friday, October 19, 2012 3:28 AM

Marc Hoyland

That would be one hell of a movie.. Leatherface would die first though.. unfortunately - @Thursday, October 4, 2012 2:53 AM

Deja Williams

yeah remakes do suck terribly be creative do ur own shit na mean - @Tuesday, September 11, 2012 7:40 PM

Deja Williams

well new line rocks from horror fils to black urban films like friday house party menace to society nightmare on elm street texas chainsaw and so forth and son on congradulations on putting the foot down in films u go new line - @Tuesday, September 11, 2012 7:39 PM

terryj1966

freddy vs jason vs michael vs leatherface - @Friday, June 22, 2012 6:54 PM

orlandod71

It was re-released in theatres back in 1980 by New Line Cinema who owned the rights and wanted to go up against the slasher films of the day. - @Sunday, June 3, 2012 6:09 AM

Leon Watson

best horror film ever the dinner table scene is horrific - @Friday, June 1, 2012 10:16 PM

Fin Tutuola

they should make a movie about those teenagers who murdered 21 people with a hammer - @Thursday, April 26, 2012 8:28 PM

MidKnightRyder36

Interesting thing is, he wasn't a serial killer, yet among any cinematic killer I know, this dude is the most horrifying and the things that the character is drawn from Gein, are the morbid things he'd do with body parts of a corpse he would dig up. He killed 1 or 2 people, I always read a different sort here and there, but he was no serial Killer, that just shows you how messed up he was that Leatherface is based around him. And yes, this trailer scares the crap outta me lol - @Monday, April 9, 2012 10:26 PM

Professor Firefly

Back when trailers didn't go by you at a breakneck pace...This was based on Ed Gein..Still scary and disturbing even now,like it was back then.. - @Monday, March 26, 2012 7:01 PM

Lorne On The Cawd

My grandmas nickname was Leatherface. Just a short illustration why... She was a veteran from Nam, chain-smoker, heavy drinker who would lay out in the sun for hours and hours just baking in the UV rays. Unfortunately, she is dead now. - @Thursday, March 15, 2012 3:57 PM

will

to all you people who think this is only a movie it is but you gotta remember this movie was also based on a true story the name texas chainsaw massacre really happened in texas and there was a guy named leatherface and he did do alot of bad crimes he and his family were basically canibals it even says that the texas chainsaw massacre was the most terrible crime in all of history - @Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:01 AM