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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
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Ratings: 7.5/10 from 46,196 users
Metascore:
75/100
Reviews: 743 user | 148 critic | 5 from Metacritic.com
Five friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals. Director:Tobe Hooper |
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Marilyn Burns | ... | |
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Allen Danziger | ... | |
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Paul A. Partain | ... | |
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William Vail | ... | |
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Teri McMinn | ... |
Pam
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Jim Siedow | ... | |
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Gunnar Hansen | ... | |
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John Dugan | ... | |
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Robert Courtin | ... |
Window Washer
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William Creamer | ... |
Bearded Man
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John Henry Faulk | ... |
Storyteller
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Jerry Green | ... |
Cowboy
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Ed Guinn | ... | |
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Joe Bill Hogan | ... |
Drunk
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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... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
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Stalking Leatherface See more »Box Office
Budget:
$83,532 (estimated)Gross:
$30,859,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Narrator: The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long lives...
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Even in his lift boots, Gunnar Hansen could run faster than Marilyn Burns, so he had to do random things when chasing her through the woods (you'll notice in one head-on shot that he starts slicing up tree branches in the background). See more »Goofs
Continuity: When the group of teenagers pick up the hitch-hiker, he goes crazy and cuts Franklin's arm, so they throw him out. As they throw him out the van-door windows are shut. In the following inside shots they're open. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long lives...
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