The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - the first of its kind, set the scene for many other future horror movies. With raw and disturbing imagery and scenery and with Macabre and twisted characters such as leatherface and the family - this film is truly hard hitting and terrifying and may be one of the few realistic horror flicks to exist. Even though filmed on such a low budget with inexperienced actors - Tobe Hooper did not disappoint.

This is a great horror movie. Very unsettling scenes, i would have given it a 9 but the acting is a bit dodgy. Definetly one of the best classic horror films around.

This is one of the few movies that has managed to truly creep me out! It left me disturbed and unsettled, with a sense of feeling that this kinda thing could possibly also happen to me, which is ten times more scarier than the scariest jump scare ever can hope to be. The locations, the cast and the overall tone are so down to earth and realistic, nothing is overproduced,hell it hardly even seems like a movie, which is perhaps it's greatest strength - almost total believability! The sense of dread in this is quite unmatched and it slowly rises throughout the movie, until it reaches the boiling point. If you want to be scared, watch this!

At six-years-old, I watched "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and I'm still allured back into watching this film every once in a while.Sally with three of her friends, and her wheelchair bound brother Franklin, travel to her grandfather's grave, but along the way they meet an insane hitchhiker. Problems continue to surmount.This influential film takes no prisoners; it's a sweat-inducing, relentless scream fest that leaves the gruesomeness up to the viewer. It's influences are unmistakeable. The concept (five or more regular individuals get mass murdered by a lethal killer) continues to inspire the horror genre especially slasher movies. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" introduces the audience to the first unstoppable masked killer Leatherface. The opening sound effect is truly spine-tingling (I believe it's the sound of a flash bulb from a camera). Additionally, the scenes inside the farmhouse, where Leatherface and his family lives, are masterpieces of terror and dread. Even though this film is effectively made for a movie in the 1970s, it's still an extreme oddity.An oddity because it's a low quality cult movie that resembles a snuff film. By snuff film, the movie requires a woman to run around screaming her head off for the final third act of the movie. There's minimal characterization, plot and no context. Although "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" suffers by focusing on grisly violence (mostly left up to the viewer's imagination), the film manages to convey palpable terror.