The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, USA) is a Slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper. It is followed by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
- Contents: Watch Trailer | TV Spot | Available DVDs | BluRay | Film Review | Film Review 2 | Poster Art | Fun Facts | Press Kit | TCM.NET | Soundtrack | Chain Saw Confidential
- Featured in: 42nd Street Forever: Volume 2 - The Deuce | Mad Ron's Prevues From Hell | Terror in The Aisles | Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide Pt. 2 | Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide
- Included in: Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 | GCDb Top 20 | The Lucky 13: Slasher Film Classics | GCDb Top 20 Horror Classics
Main Details
- Released in 1974
- Color
- Running Time: 83 min | Germany: 75 min (new longer Version)
- Production Co: Vortex
- Distribution Co: Bryanston Distributing (1974) (USA) (theatrical) | New Line Cinema (1980) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release) | Astral Films (????) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Directed by Tobe Hooper
- Written by Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper
- Starring Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
- Produced by Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper, Jay Parsley, Richard Saenz, Louis Peraino
- Original Music by Wayne Bell, Tobe Hooper
- Cinematography by Daniel Pearl
- Film Editing by Larry Carroll, Sallye Richardson
Plot Summary
- Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas fall victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Also Known As
- Akuma no ikenie (Japan)
- Bloodright in Texas (Germany)
- Blutgericht in Texas (Germany)
- Das Kettensägenmassaker (Germany)
- Leatherface (USA) (working title)
- La Masacre de Texas (Argentina)
- Masacre en Texas (Venezuela)
- Massacre à la tronçonneuse (France)
- O Massacre da Serra Elétrica (Brazil)
- Massacre no Texas (Portugal)
- La Matança de Texas (Spain) (Catalan title)
- La Matanza de Texas (Spain)
- Moottorisahamurhaaja (Finland) (informal title)
- Motorsågsmassakern (Sweden)
- Motorsavsmassakren (Denmark)
- Non aprite quella porta (Italy)
- Texasin moottorisahamurhat (Finland)
- The Devil of Punishment (Japan) (literal title) (English title)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Finland) (video title)
Taglines
- The idyllic summer's day that became a nightmare of fear and blood..
- It Really Happened. It's Terrifying. It's Here. [Australia, Video]
- For them, an Idyllic summer afternoon became their worst nightmare!
- Nothing Cuts Like the Original!
- Banned for over 7 years! Now finally released INTACT! UNCUT!
- America's most bizarre crime! Brutal beyond description! Grisley beyond comprehension!
- Who will survive and what will be left of them?
- For five young friends, a typical summer afternoon drive becomes a terrifying nightmare.
- What happened is true. Now the motion picture that's just as real.
- Once you stop screaming, then you'll start talking about it.
- America's Most Bizarre and Brutal Crimes!...
- Before Halloween...Before Friday The 13th...Before Scream...There Was The Saw.
