The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Movie Details

Original Title The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Original Language EN

Budget $140,000

Revenue $30,900,000

Status Released

Popularity 5.5

Cast

Marilyn Burns

Sally

Popularity: 1.2

Allen Danziger

Jerry

Popularity: 0.2

Paul A. Partain

Franklin

Popularity: 0.3

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William Vail

Kirk

Popularity: 0.8

Teri McMinn

Pam

Popularity: 0.2

Edwin Neal

Hitchhiker

Popularity: 0.3

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Jim Siedow

Old Man

Popularity: 0.2

Gunnar Hansen

Leatherface

Popularity: 0.3

John Dugan

Grandfather

Popularity: 1.0

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Robert Courtin

Window Washer

Popularity: 0.1

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William Creamer

Bearded Man

Popularity: 0.1

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John Henry Faulk

Storyteller

Popularity: 1.0

Key Crew

Director Tobe Hooper

Screenplay Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel

Producer Tobe Hooper

Music Wayne Bell, Tobe Hooper

Editor J. Larry Carroll, Sallye Richardson

Executive Producer Jay Parsley

Production

Vortex

Henkel Productions

Hooper Productions

Bryanston Pictures

Videos & Trailers

50th Anniversary Chainsaw Edition

Featurette

William Friedkin on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Featurette

50th Anniversary | Official Trailer

Trailer

Mark Kermode introduces The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Featurette

Arrow Trailer

Trailer

The Dinner Scene

Clip

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Posters

Keywords

van gas station sadistic texas midnight movie leatherface hitchhiker slaughterhouse chainsaw cannibal family polaroid grave robber cannibalism vacation gone wrong one day

Reviews from TMDB

Wuchak 6/10

Nov 18, 2019

***Disturbing iconic slasher about a demented family in rural Texas*** After a van of young people picks up a psycho hitchhiker in east Texas they stumble upon a farm house of crazies, including a burly mute man with a mask made of human-skin. Tobe Hooper’s "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" ( ... Read more

CinemaSerf 6/10

Jan 28, 2024

It's maybe not fair to appraise a film 50 years after it was made too harshly, but I found this really quite over-rated and annoying. Five travellers pick up an hitch-hiker in their van but quickly discover that he has a penchant for knives and, well he isn't quite the full shilling. Anyway they man ... Read more

cineast78 10/10

Nov 12, 2024

**One of the best and most fascinating horror movies ever made.** Just as the title says it, it is wihout any doubt one of the best and most influential horror films ever made. Its production history is also quite fascinating. If you are into horror or slasher movies, you simply have to have s ... Read more