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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Tobe HOOPER

USA197483min D-Cinema Color

Synopsis

Five youngsters are brutally slaughtered by a chainsaw-wielding madman with his face covered with the skin of a previous human victim. With the 40th anniversary of Tobe Hooper’s remarkable film – considered to have breached a new dimension for horror flicks – it has now been digitally remastered, so here is your chance to enjoy this horror classic in even more vivid detail.

Diretor

Tobe HOOPER

Before becoming a filmmaker, he spent the 1960s as a college professor and documentary cameraman. In 1974, he made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which changed the horror film industry. In 1982, he found greater success when Steven Spielberg hired him to direct his production of Poltergeist.