The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

– Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.50 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 23 Minutes
Release Year:
1974
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.

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Producing Country:
USA
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Release Date:

04 Oct 1974

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Writer:

Kim Henkel (screenplay by), Tobe Hooper (screenplay by), Kim Henkel (story by)

Main Actors:

Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail

Plot:

En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination.

Production:

Bryanston Pictures

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
Metacritic:
75%