The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Roger Ebert's review

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  • Ebert gave it two stars: without apparent purpose unless disgust and fright are a purpose, yet a weird, off-the-wall achievement, well made, well acted and all too effective, belonging with Night of the Living Dead and Last House on the Left.
  • A second excerpt contrasts it with In Cold Blood: no motivation, background or speculation on causes, simply an exercise in terror; the hosts answer that terror is the point, and that Ebert loved story and character, of which the film has little.