The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Movie • 1974 • Horror
ReportWhen Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.
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Abandonment
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Stinkies
The oldest brother is abusive towards both younger siblings
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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amwhite91
When a character runs to the gas station, the attendant acts as though he is going to help her and nothing is wrong, when in fact, he is planning to kidnap her.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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DeadGoldfish
In the beginning of the movie, at a graveyard one guy is heavily drunk. Slurring his words, waving around an empty bottle, half passed out on the grass.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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hildahildahi
Chicken was put in a tiny ass cage and is bumped into multiple times which makes it swing around
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wren
A dead armidillo is shown first shot, there are many bones and carcasses showed throughout but most are hard to distinguish what sort of animal
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Are animals abused?
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amwhite91
A chicken is kept in a cage barely big enough for its body.
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Is there a dead animal?
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MEATLOUSE
many real taxidermied animals, and bones scattered through the sawyer house
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Is an animal sad?
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TheButter
There is a chicken locked in a tiny cage hanging from the ceiling which could be considered sad.
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Are there spiders?
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ciinemia
when they first go into the abandoned house there is a nest of spiders
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Are there bugs?
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amwhite91
There is a zoomed in scene of a cluster of spiders.
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Is someone restrained?
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Lightbulby
It was 110 degrees on set and the special effect wasn't working so the actor playing leatherface secretly took the tape of the knife and cut the actress for real while she was tied to a chair
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fragmentalman
no but a woman thinks she might be, and it seems like she will, but she gets kidnapped and hit instead.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Nekrotikk
There are two scenes where someone is cut with a razor or knife. The scene around the dinner table involves real cutting as the effect didn't work so Gunnar Hansen removed the tape and did the cut for real. There are also scenes with people and meat hooks, however these are not graphic.
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Are any hands damaged?
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officialquakeroats
dude cuts his hand open for fun pretty early on in the movie
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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amwhite91
A person is gagged and has her head stuffed in a bag.
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Is there cannibalism?
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caramelcalico
Heavily implied throughout, especially in a shot of the old man's barbeque.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Depends on what you mean by crushed and what bothers you, but [spoilers obviously] the hitchhiker is hit by a truck which seems to drive over a good bit of his body which would definitely crush him
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Is there amputation?
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amwhite91
Perhaps not while people were alive, but there are a lot of limbs detached from bodies throughout.
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Does a head get squashed?
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amwhite91
Someone is hit in the head with a sledgehammer
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Is there a hanging?
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amwhite91
Not on screen, but the radio recording in the beginning discusses a person who committed suicide by hanging.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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butch
none on screen, though there’s a brief mention on the radio broadcast in the beginning about the two corpses that were dug up having been castrated.
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Does someone break a bone?
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amwhite91
A character seems to break or at least severely injure her leg after jumping out a window.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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amwhite91
A person convulses after being hit in the head with a sledgehammer.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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eastcraven
no, but there is a close up on a human tooth that one character finds and throws at another as a joke
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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notgoingtoaddcomments
Fingers are cut, and the beginning shows closeups of a decaying corpse including the fingers.
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Is someone tortured?
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caramelcalico
Pretty graphic torture scenes throughout, especially at the end with Sally at the table.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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amwhite91
A character jumps out of a window twice, but survives both times.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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MEATLOUSE
no eye mutilation, but there are uncomfortably close shots of eyes in case that bothers you
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Is someone stabbed?
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stupidassfuckenusername
Not really, unless having a chainsaw shoved into your stomach count as stabbing?
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Is there excessive gore?
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CemiQuents
almost no onscreen gore, however much implied gore
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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averagehorrorenjoyer
the protagonists' ages are ambiguous as far as i know and if you interpret them as teens then yes, but otherwise no
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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mrbones
No, but they use the term “invalid” for a person using a wheelchair.
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Family
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Are there jump scares?
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lastchancegas
There is only one, it's at the second half of the movie- it's brief, but definitely surprising.
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mrbones
Straight razors
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Anonymous
Nobody v* in this movie. If anything, it's not shown. What I believe people are referring to, is when one of the characters find a room filled with bones and coughs pretty hard a few times. According to Tubi, this happens at 38:41 and lasts until 38:50.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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mrbones
No, but a person using a wheelchair falls while trying to urinate into a can.
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Does someone spit?
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eastcraven
no, but raspberries are used quite a lot
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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Rcyclops
I believe the people voting yes are referring to the fact that Leatherface wears different skin masks and changes his gender presentation based on what mask he's wearing. However, he is depicted as mentally disabled and his reasons for this are unclear. It could be interpreted as a form of dissociation.
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Loss
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Medical
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deathhairball
Hitchhiker in van near beginning cuts his palm
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Andi
It's implied with Leatherface as he doesn't seem to be able to speak properly and acts a bit like a child.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Stinkies
Leatherface is portrayed as mentally disabled in some way and is abused by his oldest brother
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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glance
Leatherface has a few instances of gurgling moans and body flailing that can be regarded as a meltdown.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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averagehorrorenjoyer
a character is locked inside a freezer while still alive - the scene is fairly brief (about 20 seconds, starting from 43:55 on the version i watched) and we only see it from the outside
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petezaparti
A radio news announcer at the very beginning reports a suicide
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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lastchancegas
Briefly, while the protagonist is tied up, the camera flails for a second.
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Does a baby cry?
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SaladInMyPants
No, but there is constant screaming in the third act that could upset people who are upset by crying
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Is there screaming?
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Rcyclops
Constantly throughout the film
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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mrbones
A few racial slurs and traditional cursing
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Lambo
The beginning of the film has camera flashes going off that show decomposing bodies with each flash. Rather bright, very likely to effect other photosensitive viewers!
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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amwhite91
Use of the word "invalid." Also, throughout the abled characters ignore the one wheelchair user.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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amwhite91
The words "coon" and "nap-headed" are used, but directed at a white person.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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OJAndToothpaste
No, but Leatherface does wear a mask made of a woman's face later in the film.
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Are there fat jokes?
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georgiarose
yes, there is a joke about franklin's weight
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Does the black guy die first?
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Cryptid_Crow
There is one Black character. They do not get harmed.
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Is there hate speech?
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amwhite91
Use of the words "coon" and "nap-headed" but directed at a person who appears white.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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glance
A long butt-shot of a female character.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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MEATLOUSE
no sex or nudity. there is a shot focused on the main characters butt that goes on for a bit, though
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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KemmaWolf
No. But the Grandfather is very old and acts sort of off (besides the whole, you know, killing thing)
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Copper
It’s the usual “good” ending for a slasher, albeit grim. It gets even grimmer if you take the sequel into account (which says that the lone survivor was driven irrevocably insane by the experience)
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Barkley824
one of the movie's antagonists hit by a truck at the end and run over
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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deathhairball
Lots of shots of a decomposed face in the opening, two decomposing bodies (similar style of decomp to what you get in Bones)
Blood from surface wounds, significant but not gratuitous
Blood from surface wounds, significant but not gratuitous
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