Texas Chainsaw Massacre review

    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre     Bush - 6.5
                           Score 6.5
   1974
   83 mins
   dir. Tobe Hooper
   stars - Gunnar Hansen - Leather Face
             Paul A. Partain - Franklin Hardesty
            Allen Danziger    - Jerry
            Marilyn Burns    - Sally Hardesty
            William Vail       - Kirk

         A group of twenty somethings drive to an old house in a van and one
     by one they make the fatal mistake of visiting the neighbours who happen
     to be a family of cannibals.
         As far as horror movies go this is probably viewed by many as one of
     the classics but I was left slightly unsatisfied by the film. I didn't think it
     was long enough for a start and I expected the squeamishity factor to be
     a lot higher than it was because there wasn't enough blood in the chainsaw
     attacks for my liking but it was well worth staying up to watch.
         I'm also looking forward to seeing the new 2000 film "Ed Gein" on
     who's story the film is loosely based. He was an apparently harmless if
     somewhat eccentric loner type dude from smalltown USA who people let
     babysit their kids and eventually was found to have been digging up bodies
     and murdering people. The stories said that when the cops went to his
     house they found lamp shades and chairs made out of human skin and
     stuff made out of hair and loads of other bizzare shit so I hope the film
     doesn't disappoint.