The 2003 remake had money to spare, and it helped make the movie tolerable, although the film does a good job of portraying the 70s. I know it was a different time for filmmakers then, they had shittier cameras, lighting techniques, and lower quality film, but the low quality (even remastered) certainly stunts the movie and makes it difficult to enjoy by today’s audience. Especially in the dark scenes that take place outside.
It leaves very little to the imagination.Ġ3.) Dating of the Film – One of the many difficult things about 1974’s TCM is the shitty lighting we get throughout the whole film.
Both films open up with some sort of crime scene photos and/or videos, which make the TCM’s unique in one manner, displaying the horrors of what had happened here to the public, before the story really begins.Ġ2) Sex Sells – It always does, and al though their is flirting and lots of laughter and insinuation from the original, we get loads more sexual grinding n the new one. Thank god they got rid of that ugly sounding camera snap though, that was terrible on all levels. But Hey! Day 05 and 06 will be on the Nightmare franchise, and I fucking love Freddy.Ġ1.) The Opening – Something interesting about both the original and the remake is that not only do they use the exact same opening monologue, but they also had the same voice actor for it. So sorry about my 10 comparisons and contrasts being short, and a bit lack-luster. The films have never really resonated at all with me, and the lack of enthusiasm that you read below is why. A.) Because the story it is supposedly based on actually took place in Wisconsin and B.) not only did the real “Leatherface” not have the weapon of choice be a chainsaw, but our original film hardly uses a chainsaw! Anyways, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is in my personal bottom slot of the slasher genre’s top four killers: Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers, Leatherface, and Freddy Krueger. Which is an odd title for the 1974 film that started off the slasher genre and ushered in the horror tropes we now know and love. A few years before we got suburbia built on top of a graveyard, we had Hooper direct and write the “supposedly” true story of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Let’s keep in mind that the movie about the house filled with spooky sectors was actually rated PG though, because God knows what the hell the MPAA was thinking. I was a bit young to be watching The Poltergeistbefore puberty, but alas, that was my up-bringing. Tobe Hooper scared the pants off of me when I was little. 2014’s 13 Days of Horror: Days 03 and 04 of BoOctober
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