Let this here be a lesson.
Picking up hitchhikers, not a very safe bet.
Also if you are a hitchhiker you should be weary of whose car you get into.
So if you look at the family of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre you obviously know that they're all insane.
There's grandpa (a nearly dead corpse of a man) who supposedly a great murderer in his youth and then there's three other ''gentleman'' who may or may not be related to this man, who are all part of this cannibalistic, murder centric family.
It's pretty easy to guess that they're not really all that trustworthy.
But if you look at the idiot victims they have a deal with; They're not exactly what you call 'all that reliable either. If I was a hitchhiker and got in the van with those four five idiots I'd be a bit concerned' themselves.
The bloke in the wheelchair is playing with a knife, and the rest of them come off as a bunch of teenage airheads.
I guess there's nothing really maddening about any of them, but they make for uncomfortable company.
Honestly I'd rather spend my days talking with hillbilly Nixon* the supposed father of the family.
But all joking aside about these weird characters Chainsaw Massacre is a phenomenally well put together movie.
It's one of the oldest of its respect genre and it's arguably still one of the best. Yeah it doesn't have any of the supernatural flare of later slasher flicks and the characters are incredibly simple. You only end up rooting for that girl in the end because she's just gone through so much hell trying to avoid being killed by these crazies. You kind of just root for her out of admiration. There certainly arn't many personal connection with these people.
I couldn't even tell you any of their names. And I only watched the film 20 minutes ago.
But luckily it doesn't matter.
They're set up just enough that we kind of get a baseline connection with them and then they're thrown into murder scenarios one by one and a surprisingly well put together way.
Also the Texas Chainsaw Massacre himself (or possibly Leatherface. I think that's what his name is supposed to be in this, but I always think I'm getting it confused of a different character from a different movie.)
Is a surprisingly scary antagonist.
He doesn't have any ungodly powers and he can't teleport around like Jason. He's just a out-of-shape looking guy running along with a chainsaw and slicing at people. And there's something so eerily realistic about it.
The lack of cinematic tricks and manipulation means you kind of just have to watch a very realistic-looking event.
It'a so much more gut-wrenching
Simplicity is the name of the game with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and It's oddly enough its greatest strength.
*Hillbilly Nixon, only slightly less popular than conventional Nixon. I wonder if these boys were part of the southern strategy. Guaranteed all of them (even old grandpa and Chainsaw Massacre himself) are registered voters. I bet they're not affected by Jerry rigging. But their votes are counted every time.
Heck maybe they don't even vote. Their votes are still counted.
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