Their idea involved merciless kills, a chainsaw, a group of youths and a homicidal family with a craving for human flesh ...

In the five decades since, though, the film has become regarded as a landmark in horror, though it remains controversial.

"You literally cannot talk about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in any depth and not talk about class. Focusing as it does on a disenfranchised family of now-unemployed abattoir workers who turn to ...

Their idea involved merciless kills, a chainsaw, a group of youths and a homicidal family with a craving ... When “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” hit theaters in October 1974, audiences were ...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which opened 50 years ago this ... Sally Hardesty (played by Marilyn Burns), is tortured at the family dinner table. She is tied to the arms of a corpse, and ...