Howard, Kimberly Lindbergs, Annie Rose Malamet, Maitland McDonagh, Neil Mitchell, Jerome Reuter and Robert Skvarla, with illustrations by Adam accuracy achieved here makes Second Sight's exclusive 4K presentation the de facto definitive presentation of The Texas Chain Saw James Ferman hit on something essential about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in observing that the ‘problem’ with it couldn’t be cut around: it’s a deceptive film. From the beginning, as camera flashbulbs illuminate rotting corpses and skeletal remains, the horror inherent in the images makes you believe that you’re seeing them for longer and more explicitly than you actually are. This carries over into the rest of the film, which spills only a few actual drops of blood on screen (real blood in one moment, because the prop knife that was going to be used for the effect of cutting Marilyn Burns’ finger wasn’t working, so they just cut her) but some viewers would swear to you that they had seen the most brutal and graphic violence. The Legacy of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – a new feature length documentary produced by Second Sight Films

Since its Sundance premiere, the energy surrounding the film has steadily grown with RogerEbert.com calling Onyx the Fortuitous “a handmade horror gem.” Now, it’s important to note that all of these differences are subtle ones. Second Sight’s version isn’t necessarily a night-and-day improvement, but it’s still an improvement across the board. When viewed in native 4K via projection, Second Sight is the clear winner. Depending on the size and type of display that you have, as well as your viewing distance, your mileage may vary. Yet the differences are still there, if you look for them. Audio Commentary #3 - The first of several larger group chats, this one with cinematographer Daniel Pearl, editor J. This brand new limited edition set contains three discs (one UHD and two Blu Rays) in a brand new presentation featuring additional restoration work.It may be apocryphal, but apparently when he attended a cinema club screening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, then director of the BBFC James Ferman said something along the lines of “It’s all right for you middle-class cineastes to see this film, but what would happen if a factory worker in Manchester happened to see it?” This snobbery, and Ferman’s insistence that it wasn’t any one image that kept him from granting the film an X (later 18) certificate but ‘an atmosphere of madness, threat and impeding violence’ kept The Texas Chain Saw Massacre from the eyes of the great unwashed until Ferman’s retirement in 1999. I could go through almost the entire film and itemise the moments of Hooper’s genius, but more than anything The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is the sum of its parts. The sequels and remakes, which range from great (Hooper’s own belated and wildly different Part 2) to total garbage (Co-writer Kim Henkel’s The Next Generation, and 2013 remake/sequel Texas Chainsaw 3D) could never, even at their best, recapture what makes this film special: it’s a confluence of timing, resources and inspiration that simply can’t be repeated, and that’s probably why it remains so powerful: it feels like it captured something real, like it tapped a deep seated vein of terror. Confronting it each time you watch the film is still uncomfortable, but for horror fans that feeling is all too rare and special. The Legacy of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - a new feature length documentary produced by Second SightFilms

thanks to Second Sight's reliably great disc encoding, which does an outstanding job of preserving its filmic texture where lesser studios Of course, the film remains notorious not as much for its visual and thematic concerns but for its pure gut-wrenching impact. Certainly, the film's most iconic image is that of Leatherface waving his chainsaw, and it's this raw brute force of purpose that continues to engender the film to its legion of fans. Hooper's film is now synonymous with no-bullshit, old-school horror. That may be a disputable legacy, but it's a legacy nonetheless. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may have become dated in the intervening decades (the fashions and overall cheapness of the enterprise now distract from rather than enhance the film's cinéma vérité style), but it made its mark in its day and then some. For that, and the sheer passion and aspirations of craftsmanship that Hooper and his filmmaking team displayed, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has cemented a rightful place in the canon of classic horror films.

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Fine detail often belies its 16mm origins with some truly outstanding texturing on show – from close ups, such as when Jerry is peering through the wonderfully delineated gauze of the screen door of the Sawyer house, to even in medium to long shots, such as when Kirk and Pam are approaching the Sawyer house and the sunflowers that ring their property are beautifully clean, the levels of detail and absolute clarity on show in this image are simply fantastic.