The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The picture gets to you more through its intensity than its craft, but Hooper does have a talent. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is some kind of weird, off-the-wall achievement. I can't imagine why anyone would want to make a movie like this, and yet it's well-made, well-acted, and all too effective. Read more

Chris Peachment, Time Out: This abattoir of a movie boasts sledgehammers, meathooks and chainsaws, and the result, though not especially visceral, is noisy, relentless, and about as subtle as having your leg sawed off without anaesthetic. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Despite the heavy doses of gore in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper's pic is well-made for an exploiter of its type. Read more