The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974

Name: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Genre: Slasher, Folk Horror, Survival, Psychological
Released: 1974-10-11
Rating: 7.6

“Who will survive and what will be left of them?”

Directed by Tobe Hooper

7.6

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 7.4Rotten Tomatoes 85%Metacritic 91TMDB 7.3

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On the charts

#5·Top Folk Horror Films #9·Top Slasher Films #9·Top Horror Movies of the 1970s #22·Top Survival Films

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Year

1974

Runtime

83 min

Box Office

Budget

$140,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$30,922,680

Domestic

$30,859,000

🏆 4 wins & 2 nominations total

The premise

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

Horror Vault's take

A group of young road-trippers cutting through the Texas backwoods stumbles into a nightmare they never saw coming — one rooted deep in the rotting soil of a deeply wrong household. Tobe Hooper's 1974 landmark trades polished scares for something far more primal: a suffocating, sweat-soaked sense that civilization has completely run out. What unfolds is less a haunted-house story than a collision between ordinary youth and extraordinary, inescapable evil — with a chainsaw-wielding figure at its terrifying center.

Content: Graphic Violence, Chainsaw Violence, Disturbing Imagery, Cannibalism Themes, Intense Peril, Animal Cruelty Implications

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