Celebrate that fateful day in 1973 when a group of teenagers came face to face with one of cinema's most horrifying slashers on the big screen!
Shocking, lurid and completely unapologetic in its brutality, director Tobe Hooper’s "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" completely changed cinema following its debut in 1974. The film follows five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside on August 18th, 1973, as they fall prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family.
Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed. Facing a storm of controversy, censorship, and outcry throughout its troubled release, this masterpiece of horror has stood the test of time to become a landmark motion picture and cultural milestone – most recently being named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress - while also establishing many of the tenets of what would become the gore/slasher/splatter genre.