The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its harrowing, visceral impact has been rarely matched, 50 years on
- Written by Nicholas Godfrey, Senior Lecturer, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a product of a unique time in American filmmaking, when independent exploitation films were nastier than ever, and equally capable of piercing the mainstream consciousness.
Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film arrived in a recently transformed exhibition landscape. The 1967 outcry over onscreen violence in Bonnie and Clyde...





