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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Who will survive and what will be left of them?

7.3(4,037)19741h 23m20

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$140K
Box office
$30.9M
Language
English
Part of Texas Chainsaw Massacre Collection · 9 films
  • van
  • gas station
  • sadistic
  • texas
  • leatherface
  • hitchhiker
  • slaughterhouse
  • slasher
  • chainsaw
  • cannibal
  • family
  • polaroid

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Tobe Hooper

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereRAustin, Texas1 Oct 1974
    • TheatricalR11 Oct 1974
    • Theatrical (limited)50th Anniversary Re-release1 Oct 2024
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical (limited)18London18 Nov 1976
    • Theatrical1821 Nov 1976
    • Physical18Super 81 Oct 1978
    • Physical18VHS (cert X)1 Nov 1981
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalR 18+9 Feb 1984
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical (limited)RToronto29 Nov 1974
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical+1627 Mar 1992
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical1828 Aug 1987
    • PhysicalDVD Restored Version29 Aug 2008
    • Theatrical184K Re-release16 Feb 2023
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereShanghai International Film Festival(4K)14 Jun 2024
    • PremiereHainan Island International Film Festival8 Dec 2024
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical14 Jul 1975
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-181 Nov 1996
    • TheatricalK-184K restoration11 Oct 2024
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Film Festival17 May 1975
    • Theatrical165 May 1982
    • Physical16DVD4 Jul 2001
    • Physical16Blu-Ray3 Dec 2014
    • Physical4K UHD19 Sept 2023
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical18West Germany25 Aug 1978
    • TheatricalRe-release11 Oct 2024
  • GreeceGR

    • Theatrical15 Oct 1974

Frequently asked questions

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was released on 11 October 1974.

Audience reviews

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  • W

    Wuchak

    11/18/2019

    6/10

    ***Disturbing iconic slasher about a demented family in rural Texas*** After a van of young people picks up a psycho hitchhiker in east Texas they stumble upon a farm house of crazies, including a burly mute man with a mask made of human-skin. Tobe Hooper’s "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) is a seminal, iconic slasher that’s genuinely disturbing and horrific because it plays out in a gritty, realistic ma…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    1/28/2024

    6/10

    It's maybe not fair to appraise a film 50 years after it was made too harshly, but I found this really quite over-rated and annoying. Five travellers pick up an hitch-hiker in their van but quickly discover that he has a penchant for knives and, well he isn't quite the full shilling. Anyway they manage to get shot of him and arrive at a garage that has no petrol near the grave of the grandfather of the wheelchair-bou…

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    cineast78

    11/12/2024

    10/10

    **One of the best and most fascinating horror movies ever made.** Just as the title says it, it is wihout any doubt one of the best and most influential horror films ever made. Its production history is also quite fascinating. If you are into horror or slasher movies, you simply have to have seen and experienced it. Nuff said.

  • F

    FolknHell

    8/25/2026

    8/10

    *The Texas Chain Saw Massacre* is often remembered as a film about a man with a chainsaw. Oddly, the chainsaw may be one of the least interesting things about it. What still makes Tobe Hooper’s film so horrible is the sense that its victims have accidentally wandered into somebody else’s perfectly functioning system. The first hammer killing is astonishingly abrupt. There is no theatrical wind-up, no villain enjoy…

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