 12_The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(1974, dir. Tobe Hooper)
Best Seen: Pioneer DVD
Time Code: Chapter 8, 39:22
Say what you will about psychological terror and fear of the unseen, but when Gunnar Hansen, as the hulking Leatherface, hangs hapless Teri McMinn on a meat hook while she screams like someone who has, well, just been skewered by a cannibal in a raggedy mask, it’s one of the most chilling moments in the screw-subtlety-go-for-the-grisly horror genre. We thought it couldn’t get any more gruesome than when Leatherface first appeared and sledge-hammered William Vail’s head with a sickening wet thwack. Oh, we were so wrong.
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