![]() ![]() Saturation, contrast, and sharpness are pretty great, though, and the 5.1 and 7.1 remasters sound every bit as good as you'd expect. This 4k remaster is quite good looking, although the original 16mm grain could have been better managed. Several of them wander onto the neighboring property, which happens to be the home of a family of freakish cannibal murderers, and things do not go very well for anyone. After the graveyard, they decide to visit the grandparents' old homestead, which is largely in disrepair, and have to wait there until the local gas station gets fuel delivery. On the way, they pick up a hitchhiker who displays some very disturbing behavior, and they kick him out of the van. The story is as simple as it is effective, a group of young people travel to rural Texas because of reports of grave robbing in the area where the grandparents of two of them are buried. If you haven't seen it, you need to, and if you have, well, watch it again. It's absolutely brutal, despite the relative lack of gore, I think most people remember it as gorier than it actually is, because so much extreme violence is implied, not seen, and it's also a cynical, pessimistic vision of early 70s America where the old and their traditions literally devour the young and those who dare step out of line, one of the few truly American folk horror movies, with the sunbaked Texas landscape, dotted with putrid slaughterhouses and half-ruined homesteads becoming a character in itself, a cursed place inhabited by brutal sociopaths who are stuck in, and part of, the land. It's been called one of the greatest horror films ever made (no doubt), the start of the slasher genre (kind of, it definitely introduced a lot of the classic elements), a metaphor for the Vietnam war (definitely one thing Hooper had in mind while making it), and a waking nightmare (seems about right). Note : It's hard to know what to say about this film, even almost 50 years later. German subtitles (for the film and the commentary tracks) converted to VobSub and repositioned. ![]() English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected. IMDb : Video encoded in two-pass 11.5 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Leatherface/ Bubba Sawyer, Jr.The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), directed by Tobe Hooper, 4k remastered, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 7.1 remaster, 5.1 remaster, four commentary tracks, and English and German subtitles. At the time of his death, Hansen was working on the film "Death House" (2016), starring Danny Trejo and Robert Englund it was the first film on which he had a screenwriting credit. Gunnar Hansen died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 68 at his home in Northeast Harbor, Maine on November 7, 2015. Throughout, he considered acting a sideline to his calling as a writer, editor and teacher. Throughout the '90s and early 2000s, Hansen appeared in a couple dozen low-budget horror films, many of which went directly to video. It wasn't until he appeared in the tongue-in-cheek genre parody "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers" (1988) over a decade later that Hansen began appearing in films regularly. Although Hansen appeared in one more horror film in the '70s, the comparatively little-known "The Demon Lover" (1977), his academic career took precedence. As it happened, this was the Icelandic native's first film role: he had auditioned for the film un a whim while he was attending graduate school at the University of Texas in Austin. Gunnar Hansen created one of the most iconic roles in the history of horror as the terrifying Leatherface in Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974).
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