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Pam the texas chain saw massacre series#

They’re trying to have a good time on their friendly road trip, but you can tell the situation they are in is unpleasant even before Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) shows up. The sun is incredibly bright, and the characters are all visibly sweating. However, the daytime does nothing to comfort the viewer, and if anything, adds to the discomfort that I mentioned earlier. The first chunk of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is set during the daytime, which may seem a little strange for a slasher movie, as ordinarily they tend to rely on the shadows and unfamiliarity of nighttime to amp up the fear and hide the killer’s movements. Unfortunately, this is where it all goes wrong for the friends. Arriving at the old house to find it is in disrepair, Kirk and Pam head off to find the local swimming hole and decide to stop at a nearby farm to ask if they can spare any gas. Picking up a hitchhiker is bad decision number one for these friends, and bad decision number two is ignoring the gas station attendant (Jim Siedow) when he tells them to avoid trying to find their old house as it’s not safe.

Aside from acting very strangely, and taking photos of Franklin then demanding payment, the hitchhiker cuts himself and Franklin before he’s tossed out of the van. Sally and her friends are in the area to check on her grandfather’s grave to make sure it hasn’t been desecrated, and while they’re here, they decide to visit their old family home.Įn route to get gas, the teens pick up a hitchhiker (Edwin Neal), who mentions that his family worked at the local slaughterhouse.

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This sound is so synonymous that it appears in later movies even when there’s no camera to be found.Īside from a few flashes of parts of dead bodies, the first full shot we get on screen is of a “grizzly work of art” according to the radio voiceover, featuring more than one dead body arranged atop a grave in a display Hannibal Lector would be proud of.

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Partain), Kirk (William Vail), Jerry (Allen Danzinger), and Pam (Teri McMinn), and so we’re already uneasy when the piercing camera noise (which the film series would later become iconic for) first echoes out from the screen. The opening crawl tells us that things do not end well for friends Sally (Marilyn Burns), Sally’s brother Franklin (Paul A. You may be tricked by all the shots of teens basking in the Texan sun, but everything Tobe Hooper puts on screen is there to make you feel unsettled. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is not here to make you feel comfortable. Available as part of the Shudder Library from 7th July