It is a pretty bloodless movie for something about a ‘Chainsaw Massacre,’ I think that’s why it was so successful. Hooper had a limited budget of about $300k against which they made horror movie history with a $30 million dollar return in ticket sales. Many of the actors have admitted the sets were pure hell, what with actual rotting beef and smelly cow bones on the sweltering Texas locations.
The complete lack of motivation and back story for the cannibalistic Sawyer Clan was equally alarming.
They just waylaid, butchered and devoured random strangers.
Even the climax is unsettling, hardly anything was explained or settled.
THE TCM is one of the best horror movies ever made.
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