All Regions. When The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit movie theatres in 1974, it quickly supplanted the previous year's top horror flick, The Exorcist, as "the most terrifying movie ever made." Unlike The Exorcist, however, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre eschewed standard production values and modern special effects in favor of a grainy documentary-like approach with visceral, low-tech, in-your-face visual effects.
The tale of five young students who unwittingly meet up with a sinister hitchhiker, the mask-wearing maniac Leatherface (whose mask is actually made from dried human skin), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre turned a lumberjack's tool into the stuff of nightmares and the blood-curdling scream into an art form...
Special Features:
Feature-length commentary with Tobe Hooper, cinematographer Daniel Pearl and actor Gunnar Hansen
Feature-length commentary with actors Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Allen Danziger and art director Robert A. Burns
Kim Henkel interview
Tobe Hooper interview
TV spots and Radio Spots
Theatrical trailer
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.44 x 5.39 x 0.63 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Director : Tobe Hooper
- Run time : 84 minutes
- Actors : Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Gunnar Hansen
- Country of Origin : Australia
