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Movie review: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The short review: With no sex or swearing, this is an excellent family film.
The long review: The premise of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is that a group of hippie teenagers tresspass on a Texan family's property, with the obvious results. In Texas, it's legal to kill tresspassers, though I'm not sure about the legality of stuffing the wounded ones into your freezer. Basically there's no good guys in this tale. It's a story of a bad family and worse hippies.
Like all horror movies, the soon-to-be-dead characters are seen commiting the sins for which God will soon smite them. One is a vegetarian (she survives), another is an astrologer (to be killed, as commanded by Leviticus 20:27) and another I think is a Jew or something.
There is even an uppity cripple, who is brilliantly portrayed. He expects everybody to wheel him around everywhere, and has temper-tantrums when they don't. His rebellion against the place God put him is duly punished.
Afterwards I was surpised to find that the story isn't actually real. That's how realistic this movie is. It turns out it was based on the real life crimes of Ed Gein.
I wish the makers of this film had based it even more on Ed Gein, his story has lessons for us all. Specifically, it's an example of how single mothers and false-Christianity leads to sissydom, which leads to cross-dressing, which leads to murder and mutilation.
As Focus On The Family has warned in this article, being a target of bullies is a sign of homosexuality.
The same article points out that "bright, precocious" boys are homos-in-the-making.
Cross-dresser, cannibal, same thing.
He could have been saved if he had recieved preaching from a True Christian man. However, the only Christian teaching he got was from a false-Christian woman:
She didn't do a very good job of it. This is why the Bible says women are not to teach:
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. - 1 Timothy 2:12
Got that, women? Don't try to teach your kids. Leave that to father, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which I give two thumbs up!
The long review: The premise of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is that a group of hippie teenagers tresspass on a Texan family's property, with the obvious results. In Texas, it's legal to kill tresspassers, though I'm not sure about the legality of stuffing the wounded ones into your freezer. Basically there's no good guys in this tale. It's a story of a bad family and worse hippies.
Like all horror movies, the soon-to-be-dead characters are seen commiting the sins for which God will soon smite them. One is a vegetarian (she survives), another is an astrologer (to be killed, as commanded by Leviticus 20:27) and another I think is a Jew or something.
There is even an uppity cripple, who is brilliantly portrayed. He expects everybody to wheel him around everywhere, and has temper-tantrums when they don't. His rebellion against the place God put him is duly punished.
Afterwards I was surpised to find that the story isn't actually real. That's how realistic this movie is. It turns out it was based on the real life crimes of Ed Gein.
I wish the makers of this film had based it even more on Ed Gein, his story has lessons for us all. Specifically, it's an example of how single mothers and false-Christianity leads to sissydom, which leads to cross-dressing, which leads to murder and mutilation.
Originally posted by wikipedia
Originally posted by wikipedia
Originally posted by wikipedia
He could have been saved if he had recieved preaching from a True Christian man. However, the only Christian teaching he got was from a false-Christian woman:
Originally posted by wikipedia
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. - 1 Timothy 2:12
Got that, women? Don't try to teach your kids. Leave that to father, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which I give two thumbs up!
- I Certainly(tm) would have "sprung" for the Hot Buttered Popcorn 
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