with the recent box office success achieve by the late remake of 1974 ` the texas chainsaw massacre and it worth look back at tobe hooper original horror classic . the movie tell a fairly simple tale at heart . a group of five teenager drive through rural texas happen upon a deranged and cannibalistic family . psychological terror and chainsaws ensue . yet despite this simplicity and what be it about ` the texas chainsaw massacre that continue to succeed so with it audience . outside of one memorial scene involve a meet hook while the movie be not particularly gory by today standard . the film character and actual scare be not that remarkable . the power of ` the texas chainsaw massacre lie in it atmosphere and in what h. p. lovecraft call ` the old and strong kind of fear represent the fear of the unknown . the later of these two staple of great horror be often cast aside in modern horror movie especially in those churn out by the great hollywood engine . instead and every mystery must be explain away and every mask ultimately pull from a monster face and and not a moment of exposition be spar . it be interest to note that the filmmaker behind the late ` chainsaw film choose to implement all three of these stylistic vice in their remake . in the original and the feeling of dread and mount paranoia creep over the viewer in slow but steady wave . the first scene in the film depict a desecrated grave with a voiceover of radio newscast and immediately follow by an opening credit sequence set against a backdrop of roar solar flare . this and along with some idle astrological chatter on the part of one of the teenager early on and lead to a feeling of cosmic disarray in the lonely texas hill they traverse . question about the villain mask or the field of car under camouflage netting be leave for the viewer to answer on his or her own . at bad and in the loss of any acceptable answer and they be force to ponder that terrible and limitless gulf of the imagination represent the unknown . in it later stage and the film become a cacophonous world of throat peel screaming and blood shot eye and laughter and and grind machinery . one be force to recall the solar flare in the film open credit . in the climax of famous dinner scene and there be a feeling of cosmic force press in on reality and warp it into some crude mockery of order and a if the world be but a tv or radio signal distort into madness by flare on the surface of the sun . in the 29 year since ` the texas chainsaw massacre hit theater and there have be countless imitator and four additional film in the franchise and three of them remake . yet a love and influential a the original classic have be and many who would seek to emulate it vision seem to overlook it true strength .