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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Film
438 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 96 | 11 | 285 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 25 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| TMDB reviews * | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper, starring Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger and Paul A. Partain.
- 307 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
- posts span Nov 18, 2019 to Nov 5, 2026
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Critics, per Wikipedia
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre received a mixed reaction upon its initial release. Linda Gross of the Los Angeles Times called it "despicable" and described Henkel and Hooper as more concerned with creating a realistic atmosphere than with its "plastic script". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said it was "as violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises", yet praised its acting and technical execution. Donald B. Berrigan of The Cincinnati Enquirer praised the lead performance of Burns: "Marilyn Burns, as Sally, deserves a special Academy Award for one of the most sustained and believable acting achievements in movie history." Patrick Taggart of the Austin American-Statesman…
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60 of 438 · most liked firstPeople have looked at me strangely when i've said that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre might be the best, most perfect American film ever made, but i'm right
positive · AI labelView post →if i had to, gun to my head, pick the 5 "best" horror films ever made, they'd probably be: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Black Christmas '74 Cure Exorcist III Noroi: The Curse
positive · AI labelView post →Sabu was a wrestler you didnt see first. You heard about him. Like you heard about the Exorcist or the Texas Chain Saw Massacre on VHS. An infamous, influential forerunner of the style that would become common place. An incredible look, a unique style, a complete one off. RIP
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neutral · AI labelView post →they call it The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) but he really just uses a dumb little mallet for most of the kills. no one talks about this
negative · AI labelView post →The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - re:View
neutral · AI labelView post →On Monday, August 18th, the 4K restoration of Tobe Hooper‘s horror masterpiece, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, will return to theaters for ONE DAY ONLY! Catch the film along with an exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming documentary, Chain Reactions, featuring me! Get your tickets now on Fathom.com.
neutral · AI labelView post →the shriveled old grandpa from THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE has come out strongly against Mamdani's candidacy
neutral · AI labelView post →Motherfuckers really watch THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and think there isn’t nor should there be any political themes
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neutral · AI labelView post →My 10 Favourite Films, off the top of my head. (One per director) Miracle Mile Cutter's Way Dead And Buried All That Jazz Night of the Hunter The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Paper Moon Exorcist III Tremors Carpenter's The Thing
positive · AI labelView post →🔦 "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" 🔗🪚 was made on a shoestring budget, but its intense realism came from using real animal bones and a house filled with junk to create the eerie atmosphere! 💀🏠
neutral · AI labelView post →Plan a horrorfest using only your first name. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Red Rooms Exorcist III Viy Occult Rituals
neutral · AI labelView post →Wanted to draw one of my favorite guys from cinema, from the Texas Chain Saw Massacre
neutral · AI labelView post →I've just turned off the news and put on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to relax.
positive · AI labelView post →12. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is cosmic horror.
positive · AI labelView post →Somehow missed until today that Bernie Wrightson did fan art of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.
neutral · AI labelView post →Top five film genres: The Erotic Bummer (In the Realm of the Senses, Brokeback Mountain) The Ordeal (Sorcerer, Deliverance) Transcendental Horror (Hereditary, The Witch) GoodFellas-as-genre (Casino, Boogie Nights) "I think this movie is actually evil" (Under the Skin, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre)
positive · AI labelView post →I will be performing a set opening for a 35mm showing of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE at Anthology Film Archives. @anthologyfilm.bsky.social Very special thanks to @misterminsoo.bsky.social for organizing this event!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in Horror History, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE premiered in Austin, Texas in 1974.
neutral · AI labelView post →Welcome to Woodsboro... ...where the past NEVER dies! This official new poster for SCREAM 7 pays tribute to the classic art for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll never ever forget me and my friends renting The Texas Chain Saw Massacre from Blockbuster as teenagers and putting it on expecting some campy schlockfest. 83 minutes later it was like we'd all been in a car accident. One of the great movie-watching experiences of my whole life.
positive · AI labelView post →Tobe Hooper on the set of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) He was BOTD in 1943
neutral · AI labelView post →THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE 1974, Tobe Hooper
neutral · AI labelView post →On the set of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of the best horror movies ever made, but wow it really should never have been "a franchise"
neutral · AI labelView post →#NW The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 🎥 dir. Tobe Hooper "If I have any more fun today, I don't think I'm gonna be able to take it!" I know how ya feel Franklin. #ManiacalMarch 🔨
positive · AI labelView post →THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is, in my opinion, very good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...
positive · AI labelView post →A new batch of films have made their way into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry this week, including Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE and Bill Gunn’s GANJA & HESS! bloody-disgusting.com/movie/384883...
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a movie you had no business watching as a kid 🎬 For me… ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” 🖤
positive · AI labelView post →40 MINUTES INTO THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE: Why must this man Franklin whine and scream so? Surely, surely no other sounds could be more persistent and abrasive! 80 MINUTES INTO THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE: ...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Dir: Tobe Hooper) #grindhouse #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is so beautifully directed, and the cinematography is amazing. #Horrorsky
positive · AI labelView post →The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy birthday to the never to be topped The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)! If you love the movie you have to pick up Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie by Gunnar Hansen.
positive · AI labelView post →For today’s Summer of (Movie) Love entry, I celebrate Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE — arguably the greatest American horror movie ever made: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/summer-of-mo... Tomorrow is Chainsaw Day too! Open to free & paid subscribers - cheers!
positive · AI labelView post →PlayStation Plus Essential games for April 2025. - RoboCop: Rogue City - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory blog.playstation.com/2025/03/26/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday everyone 😄 My #LastFourWatched: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Scanners (1981) Dolls (1987) 2 were rewatches to finish my TCM franchise ranking. Closed out the last four with 2 great classic first-time watches!
positive · AI labelView post →The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition SteelBook (PS5) is $89.99 on Amazon buff.ly/40Mp6IM PS5/Xbox Best Buy buff.ly/4eCeIXo #ad
neutral · AI labelView post →Ruthless, savage, spine-chilling and raw 💀 Tobe Hooper's timeless masterpiece "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974). A lesson in fear!! #Horror #16mmInferno
positive · AI labelView post →#NW The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 📽 1980's Slovakian Betamax 📼 Eighth movie on this amazing 'Chain Reactions' disk' but, looking forward to the extra features and over 2 hours of outtakes I'll be viewing tomorrow 🙌🏻
positive · AI labelView post →#NW The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 1984 K-Tel Aus VHS 📽 dir. Tobe Hooper And the journey continues 👀
positive · AI labelView post →PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for April: RoboCop: Rogue City, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory. ow.ly/zgNO50VoZvc
neutral · AI labelView post →Last four watched Friday 🎥🎬 (spooky season edition 🎃💀) The Wailing (2016) by Na Hong-jin Cure (1997) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) by Tobe Hooper House on Haunted Hill (1959) by William Castle #LastFourWatched #filmsky #criterion #LetterboxdFriday
neutral · AI labelView post →The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
neutral · AI labelView post →#NW The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) '35mm grindhouse print' 📽 dir. Tobe Hooper Let's see what this version is like shall we 👀
positive · AI labelView post →The house from the 1974 movie “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” is now a restaurant.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 "Things happen hereabouts. They don't tell about. I see things. You see they say it's just an old man... talking. You laugh at an old man. It's them that laughs know better."
neutral · AI labelView post →#NW The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 16mm overscan print 📽 dir. Tobe Hooper Opened this bad boi 👌🏻 So now watching this rare print of my favourite movie of all time. Not sure what to expect, but I'm gonna find out. There's another 7 versions of this movie on this release 😱
positive · AI labelView post →The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) #grindhouse #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →As a Texan, born and bred, I condone this aberration of "The TEXAS Chain Saw Massacre."
negative · AI labelView post →My favourite movie of ALL time is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, so imagine my surprise when this landed on my doorstep earlier 🤩 My dear friend sent it to me 🎁 He's not on here but needless to say I've messaged and thanked him 🙏🏼🖤✌🏻
positive · AI labelView post →30 Oct 1974, Tobe Hooper's gritty, low-budget masterpiece, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre officially premiered in Los Angeles. Made on a tiny budget of around $140,000, it went on to become one of the most terrifying, influential and commercially successful horror films ever made. #ChainsawMassacre
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its release in Japan, "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" is playing in theaters right now! I've never seen this movie! I want to go see it!
positive · AI labelView post →looks like the grandpa from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
neutral · AI labelView post →It's time for me to write about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
neutral · AI labelView post →15/25 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
neutral · AI labelView post →#NW The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 📽 '1981 Wizard VHS' 📼 dir. Tobe Hooper Continuing my TCM journey with the 5th, rare version of my 'favourite movie all all time'. I'm quite confident in thinking, I now know what to expect. Looking forward to this 🖤
positive · AI labelView post →NW: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Directed by Tobe Hooper #horror #horrorsky #film #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone please take me to the Texas Chain Saw Massacre restaurant. www.hooperskingsland.com
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