![]() The film's macabre atmosphere seems to ooze from his face as much as it does from Leatherface's. The owner calms her and tells her everything will be okay. When all the friends are killed save Sally, she escapes to the gas station. The typical family unit is twisted here, too. Our slaughterhouse worker, Leatherface, has a family who berates and abuses him. And Chainsaw Massacre goes even further with its perversion. The savagery requires little blood to comprehend being treated and killed like an animal is already horrifying enough, something to keep out of mind. One of the hardest scenes to watch is not particularly gory, but involves a meat hook. Chain Saw Massacre is interesting in that Leatherface is just as scared and surprised as his victims. He kills the two, treating them like animals like meat. They stumble upon a chainsaw-wielding man in a butcher's apron, wearing a human-skin mask. Of course it doesn't take long for things to go south. Rattled from the crazed hitchhiker, they all look forward to letting off some steam. They get the barbeque but ignore the advice. The owner tells them it's best they stay at the station and eat some barbeque, not go on to that old relative's place. The group stops for gas but the pumps are empty. The things that happen right beneath civilised living, the necessary evils to make such living possible, it highlights and perverts in its own twisted way. Near the end of the film, Sally will sit down for a meal, knowing exactly where the meat has come from.Įxposing the underbelly with that unflinching eye, like those shots of sun and moon, is what Chain Saw Massacre revels in doing. Pam tells her that not knowing doesn't stop it from happening. She says she likes meat and doesn't want to know where it comes from. Franklin tells Pam about how they kill the cows: first it was a hammer to the head, but the hammer was too messy then it became a gun to the brain. ![]() They pass a slaughterhouse on the way to the relative's place. The group of friends crowded in a van and yet that isolation pervades. Scenes of a large, apathetic sun of a cold, misty full moon an almost endless passage of time. It creates an atmosphere to match its inhabitants. That's what Chain Saw Massacre does best. Then things become foreboding long before everything explodes. Their journey entails a cryptic drunken man, a crazed hitchhiker who takes shitty photographs, and barbeque that doesn't look anything at all like chicken. Then they mean to stop at an old relative's place. A group of friends go on a roadtrip to see if one of their grandfathers has been dug up. A sense of isolation and tension quickly builds. In this film even the dead cannot rest in peace. Dead bodies have been dug up, a string of grave robberies. Things unravelling things hidden away beneath the earth, away from civilised eyes. As early as its opening, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre conjures a feeling of examining the underbelly of things.
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