Lightbulb Film Distribution has announced that a feature-length documentary about one of the most influential horror films of all time – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – will be released in the UK & Ireland on 27th October.
Chain Reactions is an exploration of Tobe Hooper’s cult-classic, featuring never-before-seen outtakes and interviews with Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King and Karyn Kusama.
Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe (Lynch/Oz, The Origins of Alien), the doc had its World premiere at Venice Film Festival last year, before screening at a string of International festivals – including BFI (London), Night Visions (Finland), Sitges (Spain) and MIFF (Australia).
Fifty years after Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre shocked the world, this feature-length documentary charts the film's profound impact and lasting influence on five great artists – Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King and Karyn Kusama.
00:12My first viewing of Texas Chainsaw Massacre happened on my friend's ancient, early 80s VCR.
00:20The title sounds like you're chewing on flesh, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
00:30Texas Chainsaw Massacre was always presented to me as a test. Are you hardcore enough?
00:36And that was part of the danger and excitement, the feeling that you were watching something that you weren't meant to see.
00:42I admire this movie so much. It's got a classic, primal horror movie feel to it.
00:49Every frame has something unnerving in it. Like even a long shot of the highway, then there's a dead armadillo.
01:04In some ways, I see a book like Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and Texas Chainsaw Massacre as fraternal twins, the slaughterhouse, the bolt gun.
01:19I think of that moment in the van where the hitchhiker shows them the photographs of the meat. Very heavily reminiscent, I think, of a Francis Bacon.
01:30And there's Leatherface vibes there for me.
01:32Texas Chainsaw Massacre expands my notion of what art even is.
01:39There's one shot in Nosferatu that totally mirrors the shot in Texas when she gets up off the swing and walks into the house.
01:46She's literally walking into a slaughterhouse. She doesn't know that, but we do.
01:50.
02:07Oh, please. Let them kill me.
02:12I'm not sure if I'm a director of the film, but I'm not sure if I'm a director of the film.
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