Sally and her paralyzed brother Franklin decided to go out with their friends to investigate the vandalism of their grandfather's grave. Sally and friends decided to turn the grave into the old family farm, but there you will discover that a group of insane outcasts and fighters living nearby want to attack them and kill them all. It seems more dangerous when Sally learns that these are the cannibals who will attack them one by one. Sally and friends must escape that brutal predicament or lose their lives.
My personal philosophy remains unmoved by skill and prowess when it comes to an idea this drastic. A chainsaw is a cheater's instrument, a device that disrupts all threads of rhythm and psychology.
The movie is some kind of weird, off-the-wall achievement. I can't imagine why anyone would want to make a movie like this, and yet it's well-made, well-acted, and all too effective.
Along with Night of the Living Dead and The Last House on the Left, it ushered in the modern age of horror in the 1970s. It is one of the great transgressive American horrors and is still the film upon which Hooper's reputation is built.
Morally retrograde it may be, but then so are nightmares. The point is that this one, though often crude and raw, really leads the imagination. What also works in its favour is that it doesn't pretend to do anything more than scare the pants off you.
This abattoir of a movie boasts sledgehammers, meathooks and chainsaws, and the result, though not especially visceral, is noisy, relentless, and about as subtle as having your leg sawed off without anaesthetic.
