THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE

Part of Shocktober

50th Anniversary! Five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fall prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family. Violent, confrontational and shockingly realistic, director Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE changed horror cinema forever and terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on a politically and socially tumultuous America in 1974. Facing a storm of controversy, censorship and outcry throughout its troubled release, this masterpiece of horror has stood the test of time, becoming a landmark motion picture and cultural milestone.

“Tobe Hooper's 1974 sicko masterpiece is the abandon-all-hope-ye-who-enter yardstick against which horror movies are measured — a movie in which the utter torment of its making is visited upon audiences tenfold.” —Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene (2009)

“The most purely horrifying horror movie ever made…. Remains as disturbing, suspenseful and shattering as the day it first saw the light of a drive-in screen.” —William Thomas, Empire Magazine