© 2008 William Ahearn
Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is another film – along with Hitchcock’s “Pyscho” – that is ostensibly based on the life and cruel works of Ed Gein. A classic of sorts in that it is the prototype for the genre that would become known as the slasher film and be the inspiration for “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Friday the 13th” and numerous other films where sexual active teens get slaughtered by some freak in a hockey mask.
While I am willing to watch all manner of psychopaths in films good and bad, I have to draw the line at delving into the genre of slasher films. There’s an essay about “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” here that pretty much sums it up.