But see, even if we don't get a blog post out of it, I still have to have these images in my head that I don't want. Me: Can't you just register the fact that I'm concerned, and leave it at that? But no pressure: if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. She: Wait, so are you concerned that I'll be traumatized by watching this shit, or are you just concerned that I won't perform up to my usual standards? that I have some doubts about whether this film will work for our purposes. actually appreciated it too, but the heavy mood during that viewing was not exactly conducive to mockery and mirth.) I warn N.
#The texas chain saw massacre hook movie#
(Last year, for example, we tried to watch David Fincher's Se7en. It's a movie I love, and N. And we've had bad luck with some darker films that we've tried to watch for this series. I'm not a fan of extreme gore or torture-porn myself, and most of the films we've watched that have a high violence-factor-from The Thingto Evil Dead to Re-Animator-all had a healthy dose of humor and general goofiness to temper the trauma. really does hate scary movies-it's not an act-and I generally try not to subject her to anything too irredeemably unpleasant. Truth be told, however, I was a little worried about how this would go. Me: Well, you usually hate the movies I do know and love, so maybe your odds are better with this one. I don't think it's really my kind of movie. And what I do remember, I don't remember loving. I've certainly seen parts of it, and I know generally what happens, but it's been a long time.
But I have to confess: I'm not completely sure I've seen this movie. Me: You know…I think that might actually be all there is to know about it. But I'm assuming it's some backwoods crazy psycho killing people with a chain saw. She: No, I just have excellent reading comprehension skills. Me: Wait-are you sure you haven't seen it? I'm assuming it takes place in Texas…and that there's a chain saw involved… She: This is another one I'm going into pretty blind. Me: Okay, so… The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. (and I) Knew About It Before We Watched It: (Which is-in the end-the real reason I chose it for this marathon.) In fact, as I was forced to admit to my beloved girlfriend N., I wasn't 100 percent sure I'd even seen all of it before. For even snootier approbation, critics gave Tobe Hooper's low-budget exploitation flick a place on Sight & Sound's list of the top 250 movies of all time, and it is also part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art.īut I have to confess, I didn't go into this with any particular love for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Slant gives it the top slot, IGN has it at #9, and it enjoys a 91% "fresh" rating-and a place on the list of best reviewed horror films-on Rotten Tomatoes. (For a random sampling of opinions on its place in film history, Entertainment Weekly and Time Out both rank it as the 3rd best horror movie of all time, behind only The Shining and The Exorcist. Obviously, it is widely regarded as one of the most important-and scariest-horror movies of all time. Why We Watched It: You know, to be completely honest, I'm not entirely sure why we watched The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Partain, William Vail, Allen Danziger, Teri McMinn, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedlow, John Dugan, and Gunnar Hansen. What We Watched: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), directed by Tobe Hooper, written by Hooper and Kim Hinkel. more succinctly says, "If I have to watch these fucking things, you have to write them up." It is one thing, after all, to explain to my readers why I haven't yet produced the latest installment of The Unenthusiastic Critic: it is another thing altogether to justify it to my girlfriend, thus retroactively removing what little motivation she had for subjecting herself to these movies in the first place. and I did find time to watch a couple more horror movies before our arbitrary October 31 deadline, and I think I should still write them up anyway, calendar be damned. Real life interfered, and I apologize for that.
Yes, yes, I'm well aware of the fact that All Saint's Day has come and gone, and that somehow I only managed to post a couple of entries in our 2013 Halloween Movie Marathon. As always, spoilers follow, so if (like my girlfriend) you haven't already seen The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and if (unlike her) you would like to, you should really do that first. Continuing with our 3rd Annual Halloween Movie Marathon, “ The Unenthusiastic Critic”-my wise-assed, horror-hating girlfriend “N.”-joins me for a viewing of the 1974 Merchant and Ivory Tobe Hooper film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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