The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Movie: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

• Director: Tobe Hooper
• Release Date: 1 October 1974 (USA)
• Writers: Kim Henkel (story) and Tobe Hooper (story)
• Run Time: 83 min | Germany:75 min (new longer Version)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Horror , Mystery , Thriller  

Tagline: The idyllic summer's day that became a nightmare of fear and blood… [UK Video]  

Trivia: Director Tobe Hooper claims to have got the idea for the film while standing in the hardware section of a crowded store. While thinking of a way to get out through the crowd, he spotted the chainsaws.
 

Goofs: Continuity: After Sally has run back to the service station for refuge from Leatherface, there is a broom by the door, which changes position a couple of times during the scene.
 

“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… Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>”