{"id":21756,"date":"2014-10-01T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21756"},"modified":"2016-08-07T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T18:55:30","slug":"the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1974-40th-anniversary-edition-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1974-40th-anniversary-edition-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): 40th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TCM40\"<\/a>Forty years later and there\u2019s still nothing like \u201cThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre.\u201d Not a single film no matter how brutal has managed to be as unsettling and nerve rattling as Tobe Hooper\u2019s masterpiece. It\u2019s astonishing how Hooper\u2019s master work hasn\u2019t aged a day and still retains much of its raw guerilla filmmaking aura. The man and the cast suffered to make his horror thriller about maniacs in the South, and it shows through every single film cell.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u201d is a horror film I not only respect, but revere, if only because it bears such a realism to it that feels as if Tobe Hooper let loose a bunch of lunatics on an unwitting cast of actors. Much in the realm of Ruggero Deodato\u2019s \u201cCannibal Holocaust,\u201d there\u2019s the sense that Hooper clings very closely to reality, and covers every single aspect of this vicious environment. You can sense the thick stifling heat, the horrific confusion and chaos, and Leatherface. Leatherface is still the wild insane rabid dog let off of his collar, free to roam as he pleases. Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface is still a terrible force of nature who spares no one, and inflicts immense punishment on the flower children.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to see how Tobe Hooper doesn\u2019t just provide a flawless masterwork of horror, but also manages to depict a very rotten and disgusting environment by sight alone. Every aspect of \u201cThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u201d feels very aged and filled with years of decay, and Hooper is a master at creating so much out of very little. Hooper\u2019s horror film is still an iconic artifact in grade A horror filmmaking, as well as building an entire narrative around chaos and pure anxiety. From Sally\u2019s forced attendance at the family dinner, to her insane cackling in the final scene of the film as she bathes in blood, director Tobe Hooper\u2019s film takes on a pulse all its own that\u2019s yet to be duplicated or rivaled to this day.<\/p>\n

The 40th Anniversary Edition comes with four audio commentaries. There are about six hours worth of commentaries, with director Hooper sitting down with the surviving cast and crew of the film. There\u2019s an audio commentary with Director\/Writer\/Producer Tobe Hooper, Actor Gunnar Hansen, and Cinematrographer Daniel Pearl, there\u2019s a second commentary with Production Designer Robert Burns and cast members Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, and Paul A. Partain. There\u2019s an audio commentary with Tobe Hooper, and finally a commentary with Cinematographer Daniel Pearl, Editor J. Larry Carroll, and Sound Recordist Ted Nicolaou.<\/p>\n