![]() ![]() ![]() Anything and everything has been done, so it should come as no surprise when I say watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2016 offers very little in the way of shock or horror. We’ve seen it all, everything from Extreme Asian cinema that relies heavily on insane blood splatter, to Exploitative films from Europe based on shock value. No denying that if you were present at a screening all those years ago, you might have been shocked and appalled with what you saw (of course you would have because it was new). Estimated to cost between $100,000 – $300,000 (even in those days not much) and eventually grossing over 30 million, TCM remained the highest grossing film until John Carpenter’s “Halloween” in 78′. Commercially the film was a huge success. Shocking audiences with the story of a cannibalistic family and most notably, “Leatherface”. ![]() So Hooper came bursting onto the scene in 74′ with “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”. So that’s what I’m hoping to do with this here article, each film is obviously different in its own right but let’s create some healthy debate and go from there. It’s usually a topic of discussion that gets horror fans fired up (myself included) but is anyone actually analyzing each others point of view? If subjects like Religion, Sex, Politics are anything to go by, probably not. Don’t get me wrong there are definitely exceptions to the rule (I’m probably one of them) but still the debate goes on. Example being, if you’re Generation X or Y you’d be more likely to prioritize originals, if you’re Generation Z then remakes. Some would say we’re just a product of our generation. Shortly after watching Tobe Hooper’s, “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” from 1974, I got to thinking about the age-old dilemma of originals vs remakes and why aficionados (especially of the horror genre) are so divided in their opinions. ![]()
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