Parents Guide for
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) More at IMDbPro »

Suggested MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mild horror violence and some Language 0/10

No sex or nudity.

7/10

There are several acts of violence with minimal to no blood.

A man cuts himself and another person with a pocketknife (He appears to be crazy and not suicidal)

A roomful of bones (human and chicken) are shown.

Leatherface grabs a girl and forcibly seats her on a meathook (we only see her reaction from the chest-up and hear the hook impaling her). She then begins to scream in pain before passing out.

A skinned corpse is seen.

Leatherface digs a chainsaw into a mans stomach, and we briefly see it going in, but the camera cuts away to show mild splatter on Leatherfaces' face and clothes.

Two people are hit with sledgehammers and killed.

A girl and a boy are beaten with a broom.

A girl's finger is cut, and placed in the mouth of an old man, who then proceeds to suck on her blood.

An old man tries to hit a tied-up girl on the head with a hammer, but keeps dropping the hammer. He later succeeds, and we see some blood on her head.

A man is hit by a truck, but we only hear the impact and see the driver's reaction.

A man trips and accidentally cuts his leg with a chainsaw. You see the chainsaw enter the man's leg, but little blood is shown. He also attacks a truck driver and scrapes his side door with the chainsaw.

A Man's leg is shown wounded for the last five minutes of the movie, you can briefly see blood stains.

A woman is seen covered in blood at the end of the movie

2/10

Some mild profanity. 2 uses of "bitch". About 2 uses of Hell.

2/10

Wine and liquor are shown in the background. In one of the first scenes in the movie, a man appears to be drunk.

7/10

The horror is all about the behavior of the family, which is very intense and disturbing.

From start to finish, the film is characterized by an extremely intense mood of fear and horror.

Total=18/50.

This movie isn't as bad as people try to make it seem. Compared to todays horror movies this film is nothing, but it is a classic. For kids 13 and Over. Back when the movie first came out it was one of the first of its kind and was shunned and banned from many theaters, but now days its a classic, and is nit as bad as people set it out to be.