Amazon.co.uk Review
This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem’s Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it’s also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it’s blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they’re held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie’s powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style–but it also has a wicked sense of humour (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the 70s, 80s and 90s). OK, in case you couldn’t tell, it (more…)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 3 Disc Seriously Ultimate Edition (Limited Edition Steelbook) [1974] [DVD]
– 05/26/2009Posted in: Limited Edition Steelbook DVD's
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The coolest edition
I was searching in greece to find this once in some two disc edition,but i was find it in one simple box whith a cheap price.
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The freakiest movie i’ve ever seen!
As a massive horror fan from the UK (where this film was banned for two decades) I had to wait many years to see this film, and after all the hype and expectations which I had…
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This is the ultimate TCM
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the great horror movies.
Filmed in the 70′s on a shoe string budget it comes across as it is meant to as a grimy and sleazy shocker…
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Brand New Special Features
Brand New Special Features:
Remastered from new high definition transfer.
New 5.1, 2.0 and remastered original mono audio mixes.
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Awesome
Finally we get an ultimate edition of TCM here are the features that are in this 3 disc steel tin set is also in region zero so it will work on any DVD player…
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3 Disc Seriously Ultimate Edition
This is a really top notch release of a horror classic. There is of course a remake of this film available, and a good remake at that, but you should still pick up the original…
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Best BBQ in Texas
This film is awesome in my opinion the best horror film that exists it has stood the test of time and still scares people today as much as it did when it was initially released…
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Pure Class!!
After being told quite some time ago by the owner of my local video store not to watch this on my own as it was so grisly and wait until I had some company to view such a shocker,…
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What really lurks in Uncle Sam’s Backyard…
“My family’s always been in meat.” Says the hitchhiker to the five young teens who have given him a ride.
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HD is the future!!
If you’re a fan of this film then this is the copy to have. My other “digitally remastered” copy was what I regarded as the definitive…until I saw this!