With Grandpa Hardesty long dead and buried, the Sawyers can only visit the sins of the grandfather on the children - and if their friends get in the way, that's just too bad. The same thing seems to have happened to Grandpa, who the Hitcher insists used to be the best hammer-swinger at the ranch.
The Hitchhiker insists the old way was better, but he's not an objective source since the new technology cost him his job. As author Christopher Sharrett suggests, that means an older world of blood feuds and wars between clans.īut what would Leatherface's clan have to do with these random kids? Franklin unknowingly explains on the drive over - Grandpa Hardesty used to be a big cattle rancher who hired men to slaughter his herds with a sledgehammer before replacing it with a more high-tech, humane bolt gun. They could be entering the pre-civilized past or a post-apocalyptic future. Along with two other friends, they journey to check on. The film follows Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A Partain) as they travel to rural Texas. The house where the exterior and interior scenes were filmed once stood in an area known as Quick Hill, in Round Rock, Texas. The kids' road trip takes them far into the outer reaches of civilization, down unpaved backroads to a place where there's no sign of human life except a rusted-over service station and a couple falling-down old houses. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Directed by Tobe Hooper, the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre came out when the slasher genre didn’t really exist. The world of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has been topsy-turvy from its inception, and the original family house, where Leatherface’s family lived, is no different.
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Hooper and his small crew may have made the movie on the quick and cheap, but that doesn't mean they didn't take care to pack the frame and the story with plenty of deeper details to unpack and explore. There's enough going on in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" to reward watching it over and over again - if your nerves can stand it. And even more incredibly, it brings the trashy goods while still having its mind on higher pursuits, creating a statement on American life that can be, and has been, endlessly analyzed even at the highest levels of academia. It's one of the leanest, most efficient scare delivery systems ever made. But once the killings start, the tension doesn't let up for a second.
The movie takes its time building its sun-drenched atmosphere, at once grungy and gorgeous, so vivid you can smell the sweat and scorched grass. And even after half a century, none of the movie's hundreds of imitators are anywhere near as scary.
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