At any time, of course, not at any time, in the contemporary era, in the era of video media, people have always flocked to violence and the content of ** elements. However, in the 100-year history of film, violence and gore have never been as unscrupulous as today, and more often, although the creators know that this kind of content is the audience's preference, they are all cautious in the face of such a highly rendered and influential medium as film and television, of course, there are also people who are unwilling to be so cautious, such as the movie recommended to you today.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre seems to be a classic IP today, and in the crazy ** murderer in film history, this IP can be in its own right, but decades ago, as a film and television practitioner, what did it mean to create such a film? There's no way to know, it's the same as the contemporaries of "Dawn of the Living Dead", which we watch very well now, but at that time, when such a film was created, no one would be too optimistic about it, for the simple reason that there was no precedent.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a precedent, in this film released in 1974, we see almost all the models that later road horror films should have, a group of three or five people, a roadside hut and a ** killer who does not show his true face, etc. These have laid a firm foundation for later generations to shoot films of the same genre. Therefore, although the film may seem to have many shortcomings, they can also be ignored given its groundbreaking significance.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre tells the story of a road trip horror film in which the protagonist team needs to go to a strange place to find a house, but around this house is a group of crazy people, each of whom has a twisted heart that is different from ordinary people, and under this heart, their behavior is all strange and crazy. The protagonists first dismiss one of them in the car, and then they are frightened, but when they reach their destination, when they find that their teammates have gone one by one, an even greater danger becomes. The most representative masked man in this group of madmen has arrived, and this is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The story of this film has no characteristics, therefore, it is only divided into a general plot and a derivative plot, the general plot is that a group of people go on vacation and encounter a **murderer, and the derived plot is the cause of the **murderer that many sequels can develop brain holes in later times, etc. Of course, the plot derived from it is not expressed in this film, because after it is written in too much detail, there is no way for others to continue. Therefore, when we see such a film, especially after seeing it in the seventies of the last century, we will always feel a little surprised.
Because in the 60s and 70s of the last century, the world emerged a new wave of film style from Europe, and the new wave films themselves focused on art. However, in the United States, although the New Wave also has a lot of influence, with Hollywood as the foundation, American films can still resist this gust of wind.
This film can be used as a force to resist, and if you compare the New Wave films from another angle, this film seems to be a kind of negative force. As we all know, the essence of New Wave films lies in the core, and the core of the New Wave is mostly about a kind of power to go out, which guides too many people to rebel against the system in reality, so as to satisfy their own unfettered plot. However, in reality, in this film, this power to go out is considered stupid, and ultimately manifests itself as burying itself.
The group in the movie represents a kind of power to go out, this power drives them to a strange place, they themselves feel that they represent a civilization and a power over the local area, but in fact, this overriding itself needs a stable environment as a support, when the external environment is not stable, when the dominant factors of the external environment are not controlled by them, the unfamiliar environment will become a force that swallows everything. This is also the core of many horror films, especially road horror films.
When the so-called civilized people come to a barbaric environment, civilization will form a destructive force relative to barbarism, civilization will think that barbarism is barbaric, and conversely, civilization will be regarded as a disturbing emotion, and the emotions that can destroy stability will be added to the barbarism, so that struggle will inevitably arise.
After the local peace was torn apart by an outside force, the killing began by the locals in order to deal with them and to maintain this peace. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" follows this framework, and many similar films that follow it. Of course, if you watch too many such expressions, you will get tired of it, just like in this film, it is not only the appearance of the chainsaw massacre that makes us feel uneasy, but also the heroine's ubiquitous roar, this endless roar, sometimes bored the audience. Of course, a good voice is not the standard configuration of horror films, but after more such things, it seems that without a good voice, horror films will lose their meaning, this film has been released for decades, we don't need too many tribute films, maybe more groundbreaking works like this film, it seems more suitable for tomorrow.
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