The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - Original Trailer
The 1974 film, directed by Tobe Hooper, was made on a shoestring budget of $140,000. And critics were not so taken with the cannibalistic nightmare when it hit cinemas on Oct. 1, 1974. The Post’s Archer Winsten hacked at the sick flick with his own chain saw.
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“I finally grabbed a long stick and started prodding. I got one of the pigs so irritated that he started to squeal.”On set, strange happenings began straightaway. When the cast and crew first arrived at the chain saw house, the homeowner informed them of his illegal gardening habit. The dead armadillo at the start of the movie is an actual corpse that they stuffed. The filmmakers also tried out a dog and a horse, but these proved too off-putting.
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