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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974
· Movie
· 83 min
B
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1142
- IMDb #1234
- Google retired #2793
- Rotten Tomatoes #1242
- Metacritic #181
- Letterboxd #1223
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1578
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1419
- Metacritic Critics #135
- Metacritic Audience #611
- Douban #1478
- Kinopoisk #3687
- AlloCiné #2305
- Trakt #2048
Every rating
66–92
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 66, highest is Metacritic critics on 92. Critics average 88, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Five friends traveling through rural Texas fall victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths. One by one, they are hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer known as Leatherface and his deranged family. One young woman must fight for her survival against unimaginable terror.
Details
- Director
- Tobe Hooper
- Writers
- Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper
- Released
- 11 October 1974
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $140.0K
- Box office
- $30.9M
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Awards
4 wins & 2 nominations total
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