The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Review

Review of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) by screenqueeen: 👍 5/5

it's that time of year again. TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE may be the best everlasting grounded horror film ever made. building on observations from my last watch, the kids bring a sense of melodramaticism to everything that doesn't need that layer of complications. when Pam is reading those (relatively) bogus horoscopes it applies more so to their overprocessing of the world around them, particularly in the case of Franklin.

he fixates on the meaning of every small action as if each one is so deliberate they point to a larger message or meaning, gazing into the blood mark on the van convinced it's a symbol or a cipher, a warning. then he sees the bone sculpture and his suspicion becomes internal doctrine. but we've met the Hitchhiker, who made these things with his hands. he has no underlying message to deliver with any of these things. he's not very smart. everyone met him, he took an awful picture of Franklin and tried to sell it to him. yet he hilariously overlooks the odd quality of the bbq meat he keeps in his mouth like a stogie, spitting unsavory bits out as it clearly bothers him but never questions what he took at face value (i'm taking the pun credit for this one). it's a little like trying to find the meaning behind a series of killings and looking for the poetic or the political bend behind it when there isn't any.

according to some site on the internet, this is the reading for august 18, 1973, minus some other bullshit:

The element for Leo is the Fire. The main three characteristics of people born under this element are: having a mysterious charisma coping well with fear having a positive outlook about what can be achieved The modality for this astrological sign is Fixed. The most representative three characteristics for a person born under this modality are: dislikes almost every change prefers clear paths, rules and procedures has a great willpower