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Article Excerpt
Has there ever been an American horror film as profoundly despairing as Tobe Hooper's 1974 cult classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Released in the waning days of the Vietnam/Watergate era, the movie upended virtually every scary-movie trope and replaced it with pure, unrelenting dread. The protagonists aren't the usual horror flick types, whose gruesome fates are often a direct consequence of their drug abuse or sexual experimentation; instead, they're five young people who just happen to have really lousy luck, when their road trip detour lands them in the clutches of a homicidal maniac. And whereas most cinematic monsters have a weakness that can be triumphed over (think Dracula and sunlight), this movie gives us Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), a literally faceless killer who slices and dices his hapless victims, regardless of how doggedly they resist.
Well, the despair is back, in more ways than one. Early next month, New Line will release The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, a prequel to Marcus Nispel's 2003 Chainsaw remake (see "Gory...
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