Texas chain saw massacre script6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() On the other hand, the professionalism and attention to detail demonstrated by Nispel and Daniel Pearl (whose cinematography here is magnificent) on down to those responsible for filming locations and set detail, is consistently impressive. Some, like the mysterious little boy or the ending, are so-so, while others, like Leatherface's skin mask or the "extended family," are effective. On the one hand, a variety of new elements have been added to the story. Here the enlarged budget and technical expertise have worked both for and against the film. With some minor qualifications, this description also fits Marcus Nispel's 2003 remake. Throughout, violence is used in sparing and sudden bursts until the adrenaline-fueled final act, during which it is mercilessly sustained. Its use of tension, which is meticulously established in the movie's first 45 minutes, and release - the last 45 minutes - is almost elegant in its simplicity. As it often is in the American variations of this genre, the TCM takes the so-called blue state/red state dichotomy to a grotesque extreme: the backroads of the Deep South is another country and its inhabitants exhibit uncontained contempt for every unsuspecting wayfarer. In my view, the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is the most successful exponent of the genre. Even thirty years later, the basic idea continues to be remade and re-interpreted. ![]() The concept has occasionally found expression outside of the horror genre (Straw Dogs, Deliverance), but since Wes Craven's Last House on the Left (1972), it has been a mainstay of the horror genre. The horror/sci-fi movie critic Richard Scheib coined the term "Backwoods Brutality" to describe the slew of low-budget movies that emerged in the 1970s which had as their main theme the violent and abrupt destruction of middle-class serenity. ![]()
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