the texas chainsaw massacre


genres: [Horror] [Suspense/Thriller] [Drama] [Crime]

studios: [Pioneer Entertainment]

year: 1974

updated: 2012 Mar 24

dvd release: 2003 Oct

rating: 4

id's: [imdb]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

synopsis

En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...

Cast
Marilyn Burns Marilyn Burns Sally Hardesty
Allen Danziger Allen Danziger Jerry
Paul A. Partain Paul A. Partain Franklin Hardesty
William Vail William Vail Kirk
Teri McMinn Teri McMinn Pam
Edwin Neal Edwin Neal The Hitchhiker
Jim Siedow Jim Siedow Old Man
Gunnar Hansen Gunnar Hansen Leatherface
John Dugan John Dugan Grandpa
Robert Courtin Robert Courtin Window Washer
William Creamer William Creamer Bearded Man
John Henry Faulk John Henry Faulk Storyteller
Jerry Green Jerry Green Cowboy
Ed Guinn Ed Guinn Cattle Truck Driver
Joe Bill Hogan Joe Bill Hogan Drunk
Perry Lorenz Perry Lorenz Pickup Driver
John Larroquette John Larroquette Narrator (voice)
Crew
Tobe Hooper Tobe Hooper Director