Did anyone else think this fricker was somehow a lot scarier than Leatherface?
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Did anyone else think this fricker was somehow a lot scarier than Leatherface?
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Gramps is cool but for me it's the family as a whole. I really like that theme of the murderous freak family from some rural part of Dustpan, USA. Same with the Firefly family from House of 1000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects, living in some big old house and every room filled with weird junk, trinkets and dust.
But back to Grandpa.
>best cow killer and butcher at the slaughterhouse
>slaughterhouse goes industrial with big machines
>quits his job because he can't stand the machines
>settle down with some grandma
>makes Sawyer family
>no work, starves
>gets into killing and butchering again
>but this time long pigs
And now he's a 137+ year old corpse that's kept alive by drinking blood. Definitely a better character than Leatherface, Gramps might be old and can't do shit but Leatherface is too moronic and submissive to his family to be all that scary. In my opinion.
>leatherface kills someone
>hes genuinely terrified and distraught because hes worried people might find out and take his family away
This is a key element the rest of the movies lack. Big moron doesn't just want to kill you for fun, he wants to kill you because in his mind its you or him. He's desperate.
Also I find it kind of funny that it was APPARENTLY originally meant to be a dark comedy. I think a lot about what Jordan Peele said about how horror and comedy are actually pretty similar in practice.
The difference between horror and comedy are anngle of atrack and a subtle employment of empathy - the difference between “Oh God, what if that was me?” versus “Ha ha, Oh God, I’m glad that’s not me.”
Comedy:
>guy gets stranded out in the middle of nowhere with crazy rednecks
Horror:
>guy gets stranded out in the middle of nowhere with crazy rednecks
Horror and comedy are generally super similar conceptually, only differing in subtleties
I bet if you fed a bunch of concepts for horror movies and comedies to an ai that didn't recognize their source itd have a ton of trouble telling which was which
>horror/comedy
>Research team attempts to make a robot more human by giving it a sense of humor
>Its “jokes” and attempts at fun kill people
>They think it doesn’t understand comedy because it lacks empathy and a sense of pain
>No, it totally gets those things. It just doesn’t empathize with buttholes.
>Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a smarter film than you'd expect. Allegories about the hypocrisy of hippie ideology, conflict between old and new in society/culture, family dynamics and the disabled, the line between entertainment and violence, lots of stuff in there to unpack.
The second film was actually made by Tobe to capture more of the dark humor he thought the audience missed out on in the original film.
It’s a shame they couldn’t get Gunnar back to play Leatherface in it though, I always thought his mask looked like trash in Part 2 as well but Chop Top and Dennis Hopper make up for those small flaws.
The sequel is so much fun.
I've always thought of Human Centipede 2 as a dark comedy. The first movie plays the concept surprisingly clean, and is downright sad at the end. The second movie, you have this fat masturbation addict who idolizes the first movie taking it to its logical extreme. Also, every time someone wrongs him you can just imagine a studio audience going "OOOH" because they know that person is going to get centipede'd.
You’re not wrong.
I think you can definitely see that in the ending. With the truck driver.
I hope Peele gets gutted.
I'd settle for a heart attack tbh
Lighten up, Francis.
I always felt the difference between horror and comedy was the former has someone get a knife to the face, the latter has someone get a pie to the face.
Did anyone else think there's kind of an animal rights angle to the film? Leatherface stuffing his victims in freezers or putting them on meat hooks while still alive isn't really a common process in meat factories but it did still feel like it was invoking that. Plus there are pig squeals you can hear in the background at multiple points.
Totally and this angle is well examined in film crit. I can already tell this will be one of the best threads here today
It’s definitely there. The violence goes beyond dehumanization, and that’s entirely on purpose. They’re meat. Walking meat.
this b***h is the scariest to me because if she wanted to do anything to me I would let her. it wouldn't matter what id just do it
Anyone else try out the game?
I thought they did an excellent job of capturing the look of the original house though they really need to add more maps, I’d kill for that underground carnival from TCM2.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the only horror movie to properly invoke hysteria
other movies don't do it well
the dinner scene is the best example, with the "normal" person nonstop screaming and the "crazy-talk" being at a calm decibel level
It's exactly like that in a lot of gore and shooting videos
never thought about that but you're right...
What do you guys think of TCM3?
I thought he was dead, so it really creeped me out when he started sucking the blood.
Same, only time I actually gasped at a movie.
When you first watch it the family being crazy enough to think the corpse is alive and forcing Sally to stick her finger in a corpse seems both in-character and also creepy enough by itself that you don't expect some other twist to it until it happens.