![]() Then, after an abstract credit sequence backed by quiet newscaster and pre-industrial music, we visit the graveyard again in the company of Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother Franklin. It opens with a bizarre art piece, a badly decomposed corpse wired to a monument, and news footage talking about graverobbing and a dozen empty crypts. #THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE DVD LABEL MOVIE#I'm in interesting company my 17 year old stepson, another confirmed horror fan, has never seen it before, and my wife saw it at a drive in at the age of fifteen: it was her first date movie with her previous husband. That double disc DVD mysteriously disappeared, maybe during my move to the States, but IFC are showing it, so now's a good time to catch up with it again and see if it feels as powerful today as it did on my first viewing, a quarter of a century later. Watching this film was literally the last thing I did in the year 2000. By the end of the 20th century though, the censors had lost their influence mostly through the UK having to obey wider European law on certan things, and I picked up a double disc DVD version. Yet it took me until the end of the millennium to see The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, one of the most notorious and powerful horror films of them all, mostly because it was banned outright in England and so wasn't easy to get hold of. When I was a kid and my sister had a TV and I didn't, I'd stay up to watch late night Hammer films in her room. I've been a horror fan every since I can remember. ![]()
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