Product Description

It has been called grisly, sick, and perverse," as well as raw, unshakeable, and the movie that redefined horror. It was attacked by churches, banned by governments, and acclaimed by only the bravest of critics. It stunned audiences worldwide and set a new standard in movie terror forever. In 1974, writer-producer-director Tobe Hooper unleashed this dark, visionary tale about a group of five young friends who face a nightmare of torment at the hands of a depraved Texas clan. Today it remains unequaled as a landmark of outlaw filmmaking and unparalleled in its impact as perhaps the most frightening motion picture ever made.


Bonus features include:
Brand new never-before-seen featurette with reclusive actress Terri McMinn entitled Off the Hook
Feature-length commentaries with director Tobe Hooper, cinematographer Daniel Pearl, actors Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Allen Danzinger, and art director Robert A. Burns
Featurettes The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth and Flesh Wounds
Theatrical trailers and TV and Radio spots
A tour of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre House with Gunnar Hansen
Deleted scenes and outtakes
Blooper reel and still gallery

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6846 in DVD
• Brand: MPI HOME VIDEO
• Released on: 2008-09-30
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Color
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 84 minutes

Amazon.com
This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem's Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it's also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it's blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they're held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie's powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style--but it also has a wicked sense of humor (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the '70s, '80s, and '90s). OK, in case you couldn't tell, it's "not for everyone." But as a landmark in the development of the horror/slasher genre, it ranks with Psycho, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. --Jim Emerson

Review
the Ultimate, the zenith, the most exhaustive possible celebration and dissection of this horror classic. I d even wager that no one will be able to put out a better one in the next 10 years --Fangoria