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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Original - 1974
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper
Stars: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal and Adam Denzinger
PLOT: Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/
Full Plot summary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/plotsummary
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation - Remake - 1994
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper
Stars: Renee Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey and Robert Jacks
A group of teenagers get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night, and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface (Robert Jacks) and his insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110978/
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Remake - 2022
Director: David Blue Garcia
Writers: Chris Thomas Devlin, Fede Alvaraz and Rodo Sayagues
Stars: Sara Yarkin, Elsie Fisher and Mark Burnham
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11755740/
The White House Horrors: Comparing Monsters-in-Chief
By Martin Harris
October 27, 2020
‘What happened is true.’ What we’re seeing today in presidential politics could not have happened without Watergate and it could not have happened without The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Author Martin Harris talks about his new book.
I also want to tell you about my new book for Headpress, coming soon. It’s about how an American president came to be viewed as a monstrous villain to those he was elected to lead, his unprecedented corruption and criminality causing many to think of him as a crazed maniac seeking harm upon us all.
Sound familiar? No, it’s not about him. It’s about another, earlier president and how a classic horror film can be understood to provide a savagely cutting response to his villainy.
Leatherface vs. Tricky Dick: ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ as Political Satire
As the title indicates, I focus on the film’s political subtexts and how Chain Saw comments on American politics in a bitter, mocking way. In particular I explore director Tobe Hooper’s own insistence that his film was significantly inspired by the Watergate scandal that ultimately forced Richard Nixon to become the first and (so far) only U.S. president to resign from office.
The book is a deep dive, minute-by-minute analysis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre that comprehensively unpacks its many fascinating details. It also presents a thorough discussion of Nixon’s remarkable political career with the complicated Watergate story and all of its crazy, jaw-dropping twists and turns frequently front and center.
I don’t claim Chain Saw is a direct allegory of Watergate. But I do draw attention to dozens of ways the film alludes to the scandal. I also share more than a few connections between the film’s mask-wearing killer and the president whose infamous “Tricky Dick” persona was even then often caricatured in mask form.
The book begins with a discussion of the “nightmare” of Watergate. That was a word used frequently at the time to describe the break-ins at the Democratic National Committee headquarters prior to the 1972 election and the unraveling efforts of Nixon and “all the president’s men” to hide the White House’s connection to the perpetrators. “Nightmare” is a word often evoked to describe the world of Chain Saw, too, of course, and the way the story “folds continuously back on itself” (as Hooper once said) according to a kind of “nightmare syntax” (as his co-writer Kim Henkel put it).
https://headpress.com/blog/2020/10/27/the-white-house-horrors-comparing-monsters-in-chief/