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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
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Ratings: 7.5/10 from 50,066 users
Metascore:
75/100
Reviews: 742 user | 161 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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Allen Danziger | ... | |
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Pam
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Robert Courtin | ... |
Window Washer
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William Creamer | ... |
Bearded Man
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John Henry Faulk | ... |
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Jerry Green | ... |
Cowboy
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Ed Guinn | ... | |
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Joe Bill Hogan | ... |
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Storyline
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>
Plot Summary | Plot SynopsisTaglines:
America's most bizarre crime! Brutal beyond description! Grisley beyond comprehension! [Australia theatrical] See more »Parents Guide:
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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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Timberline Rose
(Recorded at Hill on the Moon, Austin, TX., Engineer: Jim Inmon) See more »
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The film's original distributor was Bryanston Distribution Company, in fact a Mafia front operated by Louis "Butchie" Peraino, who used the movie to launder profits he made from Deep Throat. In return, the production received only enough money to reimburse the investors and pay the cast and crew $405 a piece. The producers eventually discovered that Peraino had lied to them about the film's profits; after Peraino was arrested on obscenity charges when his role in Deep Throat was revealed, the cast and crew filed a suit against him and were awarded $25,000 each. New Line Cinema, which obtained the rights to "Chain Saw" from the bankrupt Bryanston, paid the cast and crew as part of the purchase agreement. See more »Goofs
Continuity: The blood the hitchhiker smears on the van is gone in the long shot a few seconds later. 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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