Who will survive and what will be left of them?

Starring: Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen, Allen Danziger, William Vail, Teri McMinn

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ - great

"They could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare." - Narrator

WARNING: THIS FILM IS DISTURBING!

Why watch this? Just seeing the trailer re-traumatized me.

Plot Summary: Five friends on a road trip through rural Texas pick up a disturbed hitchhiker and soon find themselves in a horrifying encounter with a family of cannibals. The group discovers a nearby abandoned house, unknowingly stumbling upon the home of the deranged Leatherface and his equally unsettling relatives. What begins as an innocent excursion quickly devolves into a desperate fight for survival.

Dad's Preview: It took until 1979, when I was seventeen, to muster the courage to see this film. Back then folks were still saying it was real footage of a true story that happened somewhere in my home state.  Six of us went to its traditional midnight showing. It scared the shit out of us. So (naturally) we drove to the creepy ghost town of Denton Valley where the old Williams place lay a mile off the road. We parked and slowly walked to the old house with flickering flashlights... Julie's fingernails were dug deep into my arm as we ventured inside, finding strange satanic writings on the dusty walls. We ran back to the car screaming - the massacre could have occurred right there! This film is realistic, scary, disturbing and one of the best horror films ever made.

Vortex Inc.; Bryanston Distributing Co.