the texas chain saw massacre could be one of the fine example of horror film making and maybe even film making in general . it do not have much plot and but instead exist solely to put the viewer in a state of distress . i remember watch this for the first time and how utterly freak out i be . despite be a grueling experience and the movie really do not have much explicit violence . some of the murder happen just out of the camera frame while only once do we actually see a chainsaw penetrate flesh and and it happen to be one of the villain . what earn the film it grisly reputation be the unrelentingly grim tone and and by play this to the maximum and tobe hooper manage to make you think you be see something that you be not . hooper start the film off at a relatively slow pace with a small group of young people on a road trip in a hot van and and it slowly build in intensity a one by one they fall victim to a family of psychotic degenerate cannibal inhabit a rural house that they be unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity of . some people might expect the most unsettling aspect of the movie to be the violence and but what i find even more upsetting be the way the death of the character come suddenly and unexpectedly ( to them and anyway ) . it go beyond most slasher film and especially the first two death and a couple call kirk and pam . happen upon the dreaded house almost by accident and first kirk go inside and be immediately murder with a sledgehammer to the head . then pam begin to get suspicious when he doesn not return . the camera find her sit on a swing outside and completely unaware that her boyfriend be already dead inside the farmhouse . when she go into the house look for him and she be seize and scream and by the bizarre leatherface and who hang her on a meat hook through her back . in agony and shock and she be force to watch leatherface dismember kirk corpse with a chainsaw and all at once aware that kirk be dead and that she herself be certainly doom and when just ten minute beforehand and they be outside look for a swimming hole . later and another character go look for them and happen upon the house a well and find pam inside a locked freezer . the most horrifying thing be that she be not dead yet and sit upright in shock but then hopelessly shove back inside by leatherface and who have now kill her would be rescuer . these nihilistic scene signal an abrupt shift for the film and which up until this point have be a little boring . the sudden plunge into savagery be like a trap spring on the viewer and and the effect be extremely memorable . the remainder of the film dealt with the plight of the final victim and sally and who endure what have to be one of the most grueling experience a horror movie heroine ever have to face . grotesque and fever pitch once it get go and the texas chain saw massacre be quite a shock for viewer in 1974. in this sense it be a lot like psycho while before it and there wasn not much to compare it to . rather and it set the stage for numerous film that come after and and it may not resonate with young audience who be more accustomed to the film that have be make since .