The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Driving through the backwoods of Texas, five youths pick up a traumatized hitchhiker, who shoots herself in their van. Shaken by the suicide, the group seeks help from the locals, but their situation becomes even more surreal when they knock on the door of a remote homestead. It's quickly apparent the residents are a family of inbred psychopaths, and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives. In hot pursuit is a disfigured, chainsaw-wielding cannibal known as Leatherface. Written by Love Hewitt

A group of young adults are on their way to a Lynard Skynard concert in Dallas. They cross through a small, isolated town called Travis County. They pick up a disturbed woman who then shoots herself with a gun. Looking for the local authorities, the group travels through the town, meeting the locals. One by one, they are picked off by a strange man with a demented face. Realizing that they are in mortal danger, they must escape from the town from a family of cannibals and a chainsaw-wielding madman. Written by ipreach4ever

On August 18th, 1973, in Texas, Erin, her boy-friend Kemper, their friends Andy and Morgan and the hitchhiker Pepper are returning from a vacation in Mexico having been to a Lynnard Skynnard concert. Kemper is driving when a disturbed young woman dangerously wanders onto the road. They decide to help her, and the woman commits suicide inside the vehicle. They decide to look for a telephone to call the Sheriff, and they end in the house of Thomas Hewitt, where their lives are threatened by the sick Leatherface and his deranged family. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In august 1973 a group of teens are driving in Texas to Dall's to go to a concert.The teens pick up a hicthhiker who is frighten.she shoots herself in the mouth which makes the kids call the sheriff.the teens come across a madman with a chainsaw who takes the teens one by one.Then Erin soon realize that she is in a house with a cannibal family. Erin must escape if she dosent want to become a victim of a massacre. Written by Anonymous


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In the beginning of the film, there is archive footage of a police search of the Hewitt house. The two officers survey the house and desend into the basement... See more (warning! contains spoilers) »

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