The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

R10/11/1974Horror1h 23m
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Who will survive and what will be left of them?

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Marilyn Burns

    Sally

  2. Cast 1

    Allen Danziger

    Jerry

  3. Cast 1

    Paul A. Partain

    Franklin

  4. Cast 1

    William Vail

    Kirk

  5. Cast 1

    Teri McMinn

    Pam

  6. Cast 1

    Edwin Neal

    Hitchhiker

  7. Cast 1

    Jim Siedow

    Old Man

  8. Cast 1

    Gunnar Hansen

    Leatherface

  9. Cast 1

    John Dugan

    Grandfather

It's maybe not fair to appraise a film 50 years after it was made too harshly, but I found this really quite over-rated and annoying. Five travellers pick up an hitch-hiker in their van but quickly discover that he has a penchant for knives and, well he isn't quite the full shilling. Anyway they manage to get shot of him and arrive at a garage that has no petrol near the grave of the grandfather of the wheelchair-bound "Franklin" (Paul A. Partain) and his sister "Sally" (Marilyn Burns) who are travelling with her boyfriend "Jerry" (Allan Danziger) and friends "Kirk" (William Vail) and his girl...