The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
This is the scariest movie ever made; film shoots should go back to being nightmare shoots; Leatherface was the victim; the hitchhiker is scarier than Leatherface
In the discussion (7)
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- One take is that this is the scariest movie ever made: the participant first saw it at 18 or 19 on VHS after moving into a run-down house in Mission Hill, was up the rest of the night, and, as with Blair Witch, wondered whether it was real; no movie has disturbed them like it.
- Another calls it about as unsettling as it gets because it is not supernatural like The Exorcist or Jason, Freddy and Michael Myers; these people could really exist.
- Asked for a hottest take, a participant argues movie shoots should go back to being nightmare shoots, 100 degrees and the same outfit, with a waiver like climbing Everest, because it gets the best performance.
- None of the actors participated in the profits after the film became a hit, which recalls complaints from the Obsession set; today people on set would post stories about inhumane working conditions.
- The take is that Leatherface was the victim. — Bill Simmons
- The take is called a really good one, with the defense that multiple people came into his house, he was defending his property, and taxidermy is his hobby.
- During the scene discussion, offered as one of a participant's hottest takes, the hitchhiker is called scarier than Leatherface because everybody has had an interaction with someone fully gone.