Creepy Crypt: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (OmU)

In the organizer's words:

It's hard to believe, but "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" has never been shown in the Creepy Crypt. Yet Tobe Hooper's film is a milestone in horror film history. So it's high time we rectified this shortcoming and finally added this classic to our program on 9 May.

August 18, 1973, Texas: A cemetery has been desecrated, the bodies removed from their graves and arranged into bizarre figures. Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) are worried that their grandfather's grave has also been vandalized. So they travel to Texas with Sally's boyfriend Jerry (Allen Danziger), her best friend Pam (Teri McMinn) and her boyfriend Kirk (William Vail). When they discover that the resting place is intact, they drive on to the old, abandoned Hardesty family farm. On the way, they pick up a somewhat oddball hitchhiker (Edwin Neal), but the group puts him back on the road due to his strange behavior. A little later, the friends reach a gas station. They don't get any gas there, but an old man (Jim Siedow) has some important advice: they should turn back! But the young people ignore the warning. Finally, Kirk and Pam discover a house and want to ask the inhabitants for gasoline. They have no idea that the house is inhabited by horror incarnate: a degenerate clan who decorate their home with human and animal remains. One family member, Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), wears a mask and carries a chainsaw...

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It's hard to believe, but "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" has never been shown at the Creepy Crypt. Tobe Hooper's film is a milestone in horror cinema history. So it's high time we rectified this oversight and finally added this classic to our program on May 9th.

August 18, 1973, Texas: A cemetery has been desecrated, the bodies removed from their graves and arranged into bizarre figures. Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) are worried that their grandfather's grave has also been vandalized. So they travel to Texas with Sally's boyfriend Jerry (Allen Danziger), her best friend Pam (Teri McMinn), and Pam's boyfriend Kirk (William Vail). Finding the gravesite intact, they continue on to the old, abandoned Hardesty family farm. On their journey, they pick up a somewhat eccentric hitchhiker (Edwin Neal), whom the group, due to his strange behavior, puts back on the road. A short while later, the friends reach a gas station. There, they don't get any gas, but an old man (Jim Siedow) has some important advice: they should turn back! But the young people ignore the warning. Finally, Kirk and Pam spot a house and decide to ask the residents for gas. Little do they know that true horror resides there: a degenerate clan who decorate their home with human and animal remains. One family member, Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), wears a mask and carries a chainsaw...