An image of a TV showing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in Chain Reactions
October 11 marks 50 years since Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre took cinemas by storm. It unveiled a gritty, mean, and barbaric vision of horror filmmaking without using too much blood and guts. It birthed one of the great horror icons in the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, played in the first movie by Gunnar Hanson. For better or worse, it launched a franchise that is currently nine entries deep. None of them, of course, compare to the 1974 original.
He’s like a high schooler waiting to see Star Wars for the 37th time. He recalls his first horror movie experience, watching Nosferatu much too young and being deeply moved by how terrorizing cinema can be. While Oswalt isn’t a horror movie historian or iconic filmmaker on the same level as Hooper, his adept knowledge of horror cinema and deep love for all things Texas Chain Saw Massacre make his interview the most engaging and enjoyable of the five.
Miike is able to offer an outsider’s perspective, comparing the differences between Japanese and American cinema. This theme follows into the next interviewee , Australian film critic Alexandra Heller Nicholas. The female perspective is very much needed, and her retelling of her experiences with the film is deeply rooted in her being Australian.
'Chain Reactions' Is a Love Letter to the Power and Influence of 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' Something that struck me as oddly poignant is the fact that stripped back, Chain Reactions is just people talking. It doesn’t have reels of historical information. It relies totally on the memories and opinions of its five participants, which gets to the heart of what film criticism is all about. People don't need PhDs, or years of training to be an expert in film.
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