The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Page #3

Synopsis: En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...
Genre: Horror
Director(s): Tobe Hooper
Production: Bryanston Pictures
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
NOT RATED
Year:
1974
83 min
1,480 Views


No, man.

Franklin, give him back the damn picture.

- He tried to sell him that picture.

- You're kidding?

No, I'm serious.

What are you doing?

Hey, Jerry, pull us over!

Hey, man, what's up?

What are you doing?

Get out.

Oh, my God.

Oh, I'm about half ready to call a cop.

That's the last goddamn hitchhiker

I ever pick up.

Hey, listen to Franklin's horoscope.

Oh, Sally.

"Travel in the country,

long-range plans

"and upsetting persons around you

"could make this a disturbing

and unpredictable day.

The events in the world are not

doing much either to cheer one up."

- That's just perfect.

- Franklin, I think that will be all right.

And now read Sally's.

She's a Capricorn.

Oh, no.

Capricorn's ruled by Saturn.

"There are moments when we cannot

believe that what is happening is true.

Pinch yourself

and you may find out that it is."

Everybody out.

Hurry up, so we can get home.

Here comes somebody.

How are you?

Would you fill her up, please?

I got no gas.

- You're out of gas?

- My tank's empty.

The transport won't be here

until late this afternoon,

maybe not even until tomorrow morning.

Hey, do you know where

the old Franklin place is?

- The old Franklin place?

- Yeah.

It's an old two-story rock house on a hill.

I think you have to turn on that road

back there, but I'm not real sure.

Yeah, maybe I seen something like that

up that way.

Well, now look, you boys don't want

to go messing around no old house.

Those things is dangerous.

You're liable to get hurt.

We'll be careful.

You don't want to go fooling around

with other folks' property.

Some folks don't like it,

and they don't mind showing you.

- Oh, my father owns it.

- That's your daddy's place, huh?

Yeah.

Look, I got some good barbeque here.

Why don't you fellas

stick around here a while?

That transport will be by in a little while.

Well, you want to get

some barbeque?

Them girls, now, they don't want to

go messing around an old house.

It's best you stick around here.

We should've asked

if there's another gas station around.

Don't you think he would've told us

if there was?

Man, it wouldn't hurt to ask, you know?

OK, I'll go ask.

I knew the hell we should've

stopped back there for gas.

- Press it.

- I'm pulling it down.

- There.

- You think this place has room service?

Franklin, you maniac,

you're tearing up the van.

Um, yeah, I just started doing that.

Hey, I bet that's some of that guy's blood.

Look at that. Look at that.

- You think that's blood?

- Yeah, I guess so.

Oh, that's blood, all right.

And that guy cut the hell out of himself.

You think you could do that to yourself?

- I'm not crazy.

- Yeah, yeah.

It takes something, though, I mean just

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Kim Henkel

Kim David Henkel (born January 19, 1946) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He is best known as the co-writer of Tobe Hooper's horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. more…

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