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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

year 1974decade 70sdirector Tobe Hoopergenre Drama
host Bill Simmonshost Chris Ryan
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:05:08

This is the scariest movie ever made

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.

The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:32:37

Don't pick up hitchhikers

The gas station guy's line that there are things you do even if you don't have to like it is cited, but the real lesson is not to pick up hitchhikers and to always have a full tank.

The film

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Directed by Tobe Hooper · Drama

83 minutes

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Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

Marilyn Burns Sally Hardesty
Paul A. Partain Franklin Hardesty
Edwin Neal The Hitchhiker
Jim Siedow Drayton Sawyer
Gunnar Hansen Leatherface
John Dugan Grandpa Sawyer
Robert Courtin window washer
William Creamer bearded man
John Henry Faulk storyteller
Jerry Green cowboy
Ed Guinn cattle truck driver
Perry Lorenz pick up driver
John Larroquette narrator

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27:58

Peter North Effort Award

Marilyn Burns

Marilyn Burns

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 00:27:58Read transcript
  • Marilyn Burns is the all-in performer: she screams for the last 30 minutes, does her own stunts, jumps out of two windows and runs through brambles at night, getting real cuts.
  • She is called the first final girl and maybe the best; what Jamie Lee Curtis goes through at the end of Halloween is mild by comparison, and both the 18-wheeler and Leatherface's chainsaw as she climbs into the pickup look dangerously close.
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1:11:26

The Dennis Peck Relationship Test

Dennis Peck could have charmed the family

Dennis Peck could have charmed the family

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:11:26Read transcript
  • Craig's flex asks whether Dennis Peck could have charmed his way out of the house; the hosts picture him clean cut with the polo tucked into his jeans and the collar flipped up, complimenting Leatherface's dress, and think it works.
  • One host rarely rewatches a movie for years after an episode but watched Internal Affairs six months later and loves its star; the appeal is whether anyone has enough charm to talk his way out of that house or talk the family out of killing Sally yet.
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