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Halloween was a joke. I don't think anybody was scared by that.
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I liked Halloween, but it was never scary. I never thought that the Chain Saw Massacre was scary in that it made you constantly on edge, but some off the ideas and the fact that it left what happened to folk when Leatherface got hold of them to your imagination (to an extent) did unnerve me somewhat. It's an enjoyable film. That whole chain saw dance is very disturbing. I've always thought that to be a very strange scene, and a very good scene to end on.
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What makes Texas Chainsaw Massacre scary are the same things that make Deliverance scary. It's being in the middle of nowhere, where you're unfamiliar with the local ways, and you feel like everyone is against you. Texas Chainsaw Massacre took that a step further by making these unfamiliar characters into psychopathic antagonists.
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Fucking Deliverance. That was a great film. I've still got my old VHS tape of it somewhere. I'd love to see it again.
As for Chain Saw Massacre, the proper film is good but all those sequels and remakes were piss-poor. Real run-of-the-mill horrors, they were. That first one I'd say is up there with bloody Psycho. |
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre's creepiness can be credited to how genuine it was. All that rotting meat, all those bones, and even the blood was all real. The director didn't have the budget to make lifelike props, and there were no novelty stores or suppliers for miles.
Much to the actors' chagrin, a house full of animal carcasses and blood-stained skins cooking in the sweltering Texas heat made for a lovely aroma. |
I remember reading that the bones used to make the chairs were real. They couldn't afford prosthetic bones (as you mentioned), so they had to import some genuine bones from India or some other country.
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