Massacre Memories

I was about 8 or 9, and I watched it from the top of the stairs when my sister had a slumber party.

I was banished upstairs when her friends arrived, so I sat on top of the one staircase that leads downstairs from my kitchen. I had a clear view of the TV which was in the corner of the room.
(I only could see the TV, you pervs)

I couldn't hear too much of the music or dialogue because all of the teenage girls screaming and carrying on, but my sister let me watch it the next day before she took it back to the video store.

That was how i saw most of my "extreme" horror movies as a kid.

It was hardly my first time seeing but I did see it last month on the big screen at the Egyptian theater in Hollywood. The filled-to-capacity audience of hardcore fans included the likes of Angela Bettis, Mick Garris, John Landis, Joe Dante, Scott Kosar, Mike Mendez, Dave Parker and Mr. Hooper himself.

Not quite the "childhood nostalgia" you were looking for, but it's a night I'll never forget.

Have I told you lately how much I HATE you bud?

anyway.....

My first time seeing it was on home video. I was about 12, and I thought it was good. I didn't come to appreciate it more until I was around 16. I think it is a movie that is too underplayed to really appreciate as a youth.

I had seen the Exorcist by age 6, so nothing ever really scared me after that. But I thrived on it. TCM just seemed ok, and Leatherface was cool. The only scene I vividly remembered was the hook. I loved that scene. But as the years went on, repeat viewings really made me see the nuances in it, intentional or otherwise. And the decided lack of actual graphic gore really impressed me more and more.

Anyone can scare you with jump scares and gore. And I love those that do! But with Haloween and TCM you have some very underplayed elements of violence in many scenes. You THINK you have seen the bloodiest and goriest killers ever. but when you go back and analyze, there realy wasn't much there at all. Pulp Fiction did this too, and I am really impressed by a director/writer being able to do that.

My mind sees things far worse than my eyes could ever interpret.

Oh...what the hell, say it again. I love to hear it.

Not until I was a freshman in college. It played at midnight on Halloween at the theater in the student center. I went with two girls, and we were all totally freaked out by the movie. The most completely unpleasant movie I've ever seen in a theater, as it was supposed to be.

Loved it.

I didn't see the first film until I was a freshman in college either. Lights dimmed. Volume cranked. Scared out of my wits. Cursing with a "Fuck!" every time I was provoked to jump.

I've been on a TCM-related binge this week, actually. Watched the first on Monday and have been watching the sequels every day this week leading up to the, you guessed it, remake.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation tonight, folks. Terrified to revisit that one for reasons not tied to the film's actual fright level. Haven't seen it since its limited run in theaters back in NYC.

I didn't see it in it's entirety till a few years back while I was in college. I remember hunting around all the Blockbuster stores in town to find a copy. And finally one guy calls up accross town and says they have a copy.

I watch TCM and TCM 2 almost back to back. Damn good movies.

11

in my room alone

I loved it

watched Blood Feast right after

what a fun night it was

About six years ago my roommate (old high school buddy) and I rented it. At the hook scene we looked at each other, nodded, and I got up and shut that fucker off. We hadn't shut off a movie since BLOODSUCKING FREAKS in high school.

After having been a proud Creature Corner creature for about a year or so ago, I decided it was time to grow a pair and watch it all the way through. So I rented it about three months ago and even though the hook scene was almost rougher (now that I'm the father of three daughters), I made it.

It took me years to see it due to the fact it's banned in Ireland (well was banned) and when I finally got a copy from the US we slapped it into the video player (we where all about 16) by the time the movie ended we all kind of looked at each other and went "That's it!!!!" sorry bu I've never been a fan of TCM 1 and never really found it scary or shocking. I'd consider it a PG-13 movie.

I must have seen it sometime in my childhood around 3 or 4. Didn't remember it, rented it when I was 11 and I didn't really feel it. It was a crazy film to me nothing worth of my interest. Saw it again a few months ago and I was scared shitless (eventhough I saw it on my computer). I also think that you really need to be older in order to be able to appreciate such a classic like TCM.

- Mike.

I was prolly around 16 or 17, it was my buds and mine's official horror night, once a month we watched some old duds.

The semi and the wheelchair scene, i laughed my ass off!

The first time I saw it I was 8 years old back in 1982. To be honest I wasn't impressed by it. I was introduced to Halloween and Halloween 2 the year before. To me they were both stronger films than TCM. Today though as a filmmaker I can sit back and enjoy it for what it was a great piece of cinematic history.

I still enjoy Halloween over TCM for the quality of the film but TCM is up there in horror classics.

Yeah, that scene had me. I kept thinking about it long after the film. He knocks on the door, asks if anyone is home. (No answer. He finds the door unlocked.) He walks in, looking around, and then WHAM. Leatherface hits em on the head, and SLAMS the door shut. Scared the shit out of me. I'll never ever forget that scene. It was so quick and so brutal.

the death wiggle and the chick popping out of the freezer always got me

and the scene at the dinner table

pure horror in those eyes

I discovered it rather late compared to some of you. I was 18 when I found the UK VHS dirt cheap at my then local Virgin Megastore. I watched it the same day. It was intense. I still love the film but it has never come close to how it played for me the first time. I guess it has to do with the fact that I knew next to nothing about the film except that was a classic and had a chainsaw guy in it. I had no idea if anyone would escape ...

The funny thing is I watched Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES the day after that. I still had not shaken the TCM experience and followed it up with one of the very, very few films that have a similar level of intensity, IMO.

And that was the same year my mother was dignosed with paranoid schizophrenia. She was already totally fucked at the time I watched those two films. I don't really know why I'm mentioning this, except that I escaped from a very scary reality into very disturbing films for a time. It was a pretty uncomfortable time in my life but somehow I look back with a weird kind of nostalgia now.

That which does not kill you ... wink