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Movie Overview
Cast
• Marilyn Burns
• Paul A. Partain
• Gunnar Hansen
Director
• Tobe Hooper
MPAA Rating
R
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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3/5
"goofy and only occasionally scary"  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

2.5/4
"...there's little doubt that the movie remains a must for horror fanatics..."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

"...the only other film to truly capture that uniquely unsettling promise of Romero’s first zombie epic was Tobe Hooper’s absolutely perverted directorial debut..."  Slant Magazine  Eric Henderson

4/4
"The film's intense final half achieves its unshakable effect through a combination of things aside from graphic gore."  Mr. Brown's Movies  Michael Dequina

3.5/5
"Almost unbearable tension."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

5/5
"The Great American Horror Movie."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

"Everything about this film is made to enhance its troubling atmosphere, and this is a quality that is enhanced in its age."  Not Coming to a Theater Near You  Rumsey Taylor

10/10
"It's a masterpiece, pure and simple..a smart young director summing up the basest instincts of his species."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton

4/4
"A profoundly sensitive look at social prejudices and the toll said prejudices take on the human social organism."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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