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Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is about a group of five teens who go to one of their uncle's farm house only to be hunted. On the way to the farm house they encounter a deranged hitchhicker who attacks one of the teens. After that incident they arrive at agas station, but there is no gas. So they have only enough to make it to the a house. Hoping they will have some gas they go to the house. They encounter a man wearing a leather mask who bashes in the guy's head and hangs his girlfriend on a meat hook alive. The main characters boyfriend goes looking for them and is also killed. The last two characters go looking for him and also run into the man wearing the leather mask. He kills one of them and chases the girl around with the chainsaw. --Kyle Martellacci, Resident Scholar
The group of people are on an afternoon drive to their Grandfather's house after hearing that there was a grave robbing incident (they fear their Grandfather may have been dug up). They first of all get sidetracked by an insane hitch-hiker and then run out of gas at their Grandfather's house. As some of the characters go wandering off they find an old ranch...they presume they can get some gas from the people that live there. After being sliced up with a chainsaw and frozen, ready to eat, the other two victims go searching for them. They put their lives in danger and get caught and tortured...who will survive, if anyone? --Mikey Court, Resident Scholar
This film is actually based on the real events and murders commited by real life serial killer/cannibal Ed Gien. Five friends venture around the U.S. and stop in Texas but are slowed down by an insane hitchiker. Soon they start to notice their friends aren't coming back from walks. Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. --Timfan1, Resident Scholar
Warning: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre does not have a plot. Now, usually films lacking a plot aren't that good, are they? Just wait 'til you see th�s one! Chain Saw Masaacre works partly just because of that; it does not concentrate on what makes Leatherface and his family kill and eat people. Instead it focuses on showing the events from the main victim's point of view, making it all together more horrifying. You cannot relate to the killer, but you can relate to the victim. The mood is pressing and the film is a masterpiece. Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. --Tero Hakulinen, Resident Scholar
Five friends go for a summer drive to their old dirty cottage and stumble upon a ranch out in the woods. Three cannibalistic psychos live there and the five friends are chased around by a man with a chainsaw and tortured. Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. --Emily, Resident Scholar

Analysis of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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Plot

Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 58%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 22%

Time/Era of Movie: - 1960's-1970's
Horror film? Yes
Horror Plotlets: - mad guy with knife likes to slice

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - blonde
Hair style - medium/shoulderlgn, straight (woman)
Body type - ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed? - Slightly see-through clothes
Events of movie makes character more... - sad
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (man) short/standard wavy
Body type - fat (man)
Unclothed? - very tight clothes
How much in movie? - 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - killer
Eccentric: Yes - wild - eccentric - mentally ill - obsessed - deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 80%
Hair color - brunette (Brown) - brunette (Black)
Hair type - (man) short/standard straight - (man) short/standard wavey
Body type - fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Intelligence - Retarded
Physique - average physique
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Texas
Farm/Ranch? Yes
Farm/Ranch: - farm - ranch - lots of descript of crop raising
Misc setting - building

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel... - excited
How many deaths in film? - 3-4
How much use of techno gadgets? - 2 (a little)
Kind of violence: - knives
Unusual forms of death - hanging - eaten - diced - impaled - decapitated - perforation--swords/knives - blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing

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