IMDb plot summary: Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, and William Vail.
This is one of the most viscerally upsetting horror movies I've seen in awhile. Right from the beginning, even before anything menacing has actually happened, there's a sense of things being just generally not right, a vague "squick" factor. That only gets more intense as it goes on, to the point that when the credits finally roll, even though our heroine is ostensibly safe, it feels like she's stuck in a perpetually unsafe world. This all sounds more negative than it is. This is a tremendously impactful horror film, and that's exactly why it's not one I can imagine ever wanting to watch again.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre > To Rome with Love
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre < Spellbound (2002)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre > Thor
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre < Sin City
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre > The Happening
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre < School of Rock
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre < The Hunt for Red October
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre < A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre > Death to Smoochy
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre > Zero Effect
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre < 12 Angry Men (1997)
Final spot: #961 out of 2820.
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