Amazon.co.uk Review
This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem's Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it's also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it's blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they're held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie's powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style--but it also has a wicked sense of humour (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the 70s, 80s and 90s). OK, in case you couldn't tell, it's "not for everyone", but as a landmark in the development of the horror/slasher genre, it ranks with Psycho, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. --Jim Emerson
Product Description
Tobe Hooper's original classic in an incredible 3 disc edition including brand new features.
Special Features
Tobe Hooper's original classic in an incredible 3-disc edition in a limited edition steelbook including brand new special features:
Remastered from new high definition transfer;
New 5.1, 2.0 and remastered original mono audio mixes;
Commentary with Tobe Hooper, cinematographer Daniel Pearl and actor Gunnar Hansen;
Commentary with actors Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Allen Danziger and art director Robert A. Burns;
"The Shocking Truth" documentary;
"Flesh Wounds" documentary;
A tour of the TCSM house with Gunnar Hansen;
Interview with Tobe Hooper and writer Kim Henkel;
"Off The Hook" with actor Teri McMinn;
"The Business of Chain Saw" with production manager Ron Bozman; Deleted scenes, outtakes and galleries
Remastered from new high definition transfer;
New 5.1, 2.0 and remastered original mono audio mixes;
Commentary with Tobe Hooper, cinematographer Daniel Pearl and actor Gunnar Hansen;
Commentary with actors Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Allen Danziger and art director Robert A. Burns;
"The Shocking Truth" documentary;
"Flesh Wounds" documentary;
A tour of the TCSM house with Gunnar Hansen;
Interview with Tobe Hooper and writer Kim Henkel;
"Off The Hook" with actor Teri McMinn;
"The Business of Chain Saw" with production manager Ron Bozman; Deleted scenes, outtakes and galleries
Review
The most purely horrifying horror movie ever made --Empire
