The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a low-budget horror film, made in 1974 by director Tobe Hooper and starring Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Edwin Neal, Allen Danzinger, Paul A. Partain, and Jim Siedow.

Plot (2003)

In 1974, a group of college kids are headed to Dallas through the back roads of Texas. On the way, they encounter a young hitchhiker who shoots herself with a revolver. The kids contact the sheriff, who takes a long time to come down to meet them. Two of them wander over to a large homestead, which they discover is inhabited by a family of psychopaths who support the grisly and abusive practices of their son: torturing, mutilating and wearing the dead skin of his victims. One at a time, the young college students fall prey to the demented family, until one girl (Erin, portrayed by Jessica Biel) discovers that this family has kidnapped a baby to raise as their own. She takes the baby from them, runs over the demented Sheriff (three times) and makes her way out of the horrible town.

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Let it be noted that there are no references to certain familial cannibalistic tendencies within the family in the remake. No one is ever eaten; they are only tortured.

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