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Posted on October 2, 2017September 20, 2017

Crocodiles Make Fine Pets (Eaten Alive, 1976)

Tobe Hooper followed up his classic horror the Texas Chainsaw Massacre by traversing similar ground but in a different way. Set in rural Texas, Judd runs the local Starlight Hotel.…

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Posted on October 30, 2016September 11, 2016

Let’s Visit Texas (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Beginning, 2006)

The very nature of a horror movie prequel is pretty bleak.  If you are going back to “the beginning”, you pretty much wreck any hopes for a happy ending. Texas…

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Posted on October 29, 2016September 11, 2016

Let’s Visit Texas Part 5 (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 2003)

People stopped trying to make sequels and the franchise looked to be quietly slipping into history.  Then, in the early 2000’s Michael Bay formed Platinum Dunes and purchased the rights…

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Posted on October 26, 2016September 10, 2016

Let’s Visit Texas Part 2 (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, 1986)

Cannon Films got the rights to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and immediately set to get Hooper to make a sequel.  Except, Hooper was not really interested in a sequel.  He…

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Posted on October 25, 2016September 10, 2016

Let’s Visit Texas Part 1 (the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974)

I think the lesson in this film franchise is never take a road trip to Texas.  But anyways, the original film about a family of twisted and likely inbred rednecks…

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Posted on October 23, 2015October 22, 2015

Carnival Horror (The Funhouse, 1981)

The titles start out quite promising with a montage of rather creepy animatronic puppets.  The film then starts out as if Tobe was making a Halloween meets Psycho ripoff.  We…

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