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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in a collection representing many original elements of the film. Since 2013, every August 18, fans of the movie have taken part in "Texas Chain Saw Massacre Day", an annual grassroots celebration initiated by Swedish horror synth composer/producer Videogram. Critic Christopher Sharrett argues that since Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960) and "The Birds" (1963), the American horror film has been defined by the questions it poses "about the fundamental validity of the American civilizing process", concerns amplified during the 1970s by the "delegitimation of authority in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate". "If "Psycho" began an exploration of a new sense