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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Synopsis

Tobe Hooper's influential cult classic continues the subgenre of horror films based on the life and "career" of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, which began with Alfred Hitchcock's own influential cult classic Psycho. When Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) hears that the Texas cemetery where her grandfather is buried has been vandalized, she gathers her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) and several other friends together to see if grandpa's remains are still in one piece. While in the...more

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4.0

75 out of 100 Metascore®

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5

The original is the best. by redyeah
It gets no better in a horror movie than this. So creepy and terrifying and gruesome without that much blood. It is remembered as one of the bloodiest ever....

5

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