A documentary about the classic 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' film, including interviews with Gunnar Hansen, Edwin Neal, John Dugan and Jim Seidow.
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Title: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait (Video 1988)
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| John Dugan | ... | Self | |
| Jim Siedow | ... | Self | |
| Edwin Neal | ... | Self | |
| Gunnar Hansen | ... | Self | |
| Forrest J. Ackerman | ... | Self (as Forry Ackerman) | |
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A documentary about the classic 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' film, including interviews with Gunnar Hansen, Edwin Neal, John Dugan and Jim Seidow.
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Despite not liking much of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise I went into this looking forward to some background on the film, some behind the scenes factoids and a further look into the movie.
After this hour long documentary had finished I wasn't really much wiser.
Essentially the same couple of stories are repeated, the titbits provided are really quite petty and the cast do not come across well.
What I mean by that is they aren't exactly good interviews, most of the cast come across as pretentious and make out that TCM was the greatest movie ever made.
I would say this is for huge fans only, the likelihood of learning anything new however is pretty remote.
The Good:
Gunnar Hansen
The Bad:
Hugely repetitious
Some poor audio recording quality
Shoddily made
Rather dull
Things I Learnt From This Documentary:
For appearance sake it's probably best you don't admit to enjoying hitting a woman on set
Admitting you wrote a topless scene just because you wanted to see an actresses boobs isn't much better