The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 - Blu-ray Info

Version: U.S.A / Region A, B(?), C(?)
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
VC-1 BD-50 / Advanced Profile 3
Running time: 1:23:24
Movie size: 21,99 GB
Disc size: 36,75 GB
Average video bit rate: 29.46 Mbps

DTS Audio English 1509 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit
LPCM Audio English 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps

Subtitles: English SDH / Spanish
Number of chapters: 13

#Audio Commentaries
#Documentaries (SD - 144 minutes)
#Featurette: Chainsaw House Tour (SD - 20 minutes)
#Featurette: "Off the Hook" (SD, 10 minutes)
#Deleted Scenes and Outtakes (SD - 30 minutes)
#Blooper Reel (SD - 3 minutes)
#Promotional Materials (SD)
#Still Gallery (SD) December 4, 2008

One of my all time favorite Films ever made

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre tripped me out when I first rented it on VHS a few years ago. It was around 2001 and I rented it because I was like 13 and Bored! So me and friends watched it late at night, and everyone disliked it, cause they were idiots. I loved it! The film is so bizzare. Its just this old movie with a group of friends discovering an obandoned farmhouse near one of the girl's grandparents' old house. In the farmhouse lives a strange, sadistic murderer and his entire family! It's so creepy and trippy cause you don't see it coming, especially when you don't really know anything about the series whatsoever. It was really scary and strange and artistic. I really enjoyed it. It's filmmaking at it's finest. Easily one of the greatest indie films I have ever seen and the best horror film bar none! November 4, 2008

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE [BLU-RAY]

WORST VIDEO I HAVE SEEN IN MY LIFE. Before buying this blu-ray, I did not know that they are the much OLDER version. October 18, 2008

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

This is perhaps the stupidest movie ever made. If not the most stupid, it should easily make the top five (or would that be the bottom five?). Either way, the acting is terrible, the sound is horrific, and the plot appears to have been written during an afternoon of drinking and football watching.

Five idiotic morons, one in a wheelchair, are in a van in rural Texas. They stupidly pick up this total scumbag hitch hiker who proceeds to give everyone the creeps, but he isn't thrown out of the van until he cuts the dork in the wheelchair. The wheelchair guy is easily the most annoying of all the cast members. After hearing him deliver two lines, I was ready to take my chainsaw and destroy my TV.

One by one the youths go to this old farmhouse and encounter the idiot with the chainsaw. Oddly enough, his chainsaw starts on the first pull, and stays running throughout most of the 15-20 minutes of his scene. I kept wishing for it to behave like a real chainsaw and stop running for no apparent reason, or at least run out of gas. Unfortunately, it did neither, it just ran. So the fat guy with the mask (presumably made from human skin, but we don't know for sure) runs through the woods at night chasing down his victims.

By the end of the movie only the blond bimbo is left alive. For her part, all she does is scream. I began to wonder if she was paid by the scream, in which case she must have done all right for herself. She gets recued by some unknown hero in a pickup truck and they ride off into the distance.

If you must watch this dud, then I suggest do it with the volume either off on on real low. I recommend this not because the movie is scary, but because the sound will either cause your wallpaper to peel, or your skin to crawl. I can't understand how anyone with an IQ higher that 20 can give this movie any kind of positive review. It's just plain dumb. October 10, 2008

Fresh from the Slaughterhouse

Review of the Blu-Ray edition (4 stars out of 5)

The Good Things
*Includes a number of special features; documentaries, deleted scenes, outtakes, and trailers.
*The movie is one of the freakiest ever made. It has some graphicness to it, but is not quite as bad as I thought it would be (newer movies like "Saw" are way worse). It achieves terror more through the creepy settings and unsettling ideas.
*Filming style is good. Has a lot of good camera angles and movements.
*Production design (for a low-budget movie) is good. The house they go to is the freakiest thing ever. Costumes are great. Make-up effects are great.
*Sound design is great.
*The story is simple, and straightforward.
*Characters are good and very well-acted. Writing is not bad.

The Bad Things
*Special features are in standard definition.
*Even though the blood and gore is limited, it is disturbing enough to scare some people away. Not reccomended to those who are easy to scare.

The Questionable Things
*The video quality on this disc is rather grainy and fuzzy. It has some cleaness, sharpness, and color to it, but its not the best. Still, the grain accentuates the film very well, and can be considered a good thing.
*Sound quality is okay.

This is truly one of the scariest films I've ever seen. Its creepy, unsettling, and intense. A definite precursor to modern films like "Saw," but without being overly graphic. This way, I see it as being very classy. Combined with a good cast of characters and a simple plot, its very effective. Everybody who can handle it ought to watch it at least once, for it is quite scary. October 10, 2008

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