The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Page #2

Synopsis: En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...
Genre: Horror
Director(s): Tobe Hooper
Production: Bryanston Pictures
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
NOT RATED
Year:
1974
83 min
1,495 Views


Oh, yeah, sure, I like it.

It's good.

It sounds horrible.

Could we talk about something else?

You'd like it

if you didn't know what was in it.

I wouldn't,

and I wish you'd stop talking about it.

Oh.

Come on, you're making everybody sick.

Oh, all right.

What are you doing?

Hey, man, put that knife up.

Oh!

Oh, come on.

Oh! What are you doing to yourself?

Oh, my God!

Why are you doing that?

Put that away.

I have this knife.

Put that away, too.

- It's a good knife.

- I'm sure it is, man.

Fold it up.

Hey, you took my picture.

Hey, you-you could take me to my house.

I live right off this road.

Well, I don't know, man.

We're in pretty much of a hurry.

- How close is it?

- It's real close.

Well, couldn't you just walk?

I mean, if it's so close.

Yeah, you could have dinner with us.

You like head cheese?

My brother makes it real good. You'll like it.

I think you better push on now.

Don't you, Jerry?

Yeah, I'm sorry.

It didn't turn out so good.

- It's a nice picture. You can pay me now.

- Huh?

Two dollars. It's a good picture.

No, man.

Franklin, give him back the damn picture.

- He tried to sell him that picture.

- You're kidding?

No, I'm serious.

What are you doing?

Hey, Jerry, pull us over!

Hey, man, what's up?

What are you doing?

Get out.

Oh, my God.

Oh, I'm about half ready to call a cop.

That's the last goddamn hitchhiker

I ever pick up.

Hey, listen to Franklin's horoscope.

Oh, Sally.

"Travel in the country,

long-range plans

"and upsetting persons around you

"could make this a disturbing

and unpredictable day.

The events in the world are not

doing much either to cheer one up."

- That's just perfect.

- Franklin, I think that will be all right.

And now read Sally's.

She's a Capricorn.

Oh, no.

Capricorn's ruled by Saturn.

"There are moments when we cannot

believe that what is happening is true.

Pinch yourself

and you may find out that it is."

Everybody out.

Hurry up, so we can get home.

Here comes somebody.

How are you?

Would you fill her up, please?

I got no gas.

- You're out of gas?

- My tank's empty.

The transport won't be here

until late this afternoon,

maybe not even until tomorrow morning.

Hey, do you know where

the old Franklin place is?

- The old Franklin place?

- Yeah.

It's an old two-story rock house on a hill.

I think you have to turn on that road

back there, but I'm not real sure.

Yeah, maybe I seen something like that

up that way.

Well, now look, you boys don't want

to go messing around no old house.

Those things is dangerous.

You're liable to get hurt.

We'll be careful.

You don't want to go fooling around

with other folks' property.

Some folks don't like it,

and they don't mind showing you.

- Oh, my father owns it.

- That's your daddy's place, huh?

Yeah.

Look, I got some good barbeque here.

Why don't you fellas

stick around here a while?

That transport will be by in a little while.

Well, you want to get

some barbeque?

Them girls, now, they don't want to

go messing around an old house.

It's best you stick around here.

We should've asked

if there's another gas station around.

Don't you think he would've told us

if there was?

Man, it wouldn't hurt to ask, you know?

OK, I'll go ask.

I knew the hell we should've

stopped back there for gas.

- Press it.

- I'm pulling it down.

- There.

- You think this place has room service?

Franklin, you maniac,

you're tearing up the van.

Um, yeah, I just started doing that.

Hey, I bet that's some of that guy's blood.

Look at that. Look at that.

- You think that's blood?

- Yeah, I guess so.

Oh, that's blood, all right.

And that guy cut the hell out of himself.

You think you could do that to yourself?

- I'm not crazy.

- Yeah, yeah.

It takes something, though, I mean just

to do that to yourself like he did. God!

Hey, you think I said something

made him mad?

- Well, what?

- Franklin, you're crazier than he was.

Hey, I got us some barbeque.

- Newt's the closest place to get gas.

- Aw.

Aren't we going out to Grandpa's place?

There's a creek. You could go swimming.

Let's go.

Come on, Sally.

We're going to Grandpa's place.

Let's go!

Hey, that guy smeared blood

all over the van.

- Like he was trying to write something.

- What'd he do?

Did he write something on the van?

Let me see your knife.

Thank you.

Franklin, if we run out of gas

before we get back to that station,

you're towing us back in your chair.

Hey, you think that guy's

just trying to scare us

by, you know,

blowing up my picture like that?

Oh, I wish they hadn't

let the place fall apart.

It looks like the birth place

of Bela Lugosi.

- I'm scared.

- I'll help you with that.

- See that window over there?

- That's strange.

Hey, watch my arms.

Watch out.

- Be straight. Come on. Hey.

- I'll get you from here.

I want to see that smear

that guy made.

- Oh, man.

- Weird. I wonder if that means something.

It's the mark of Zorro.

He's going to get you.

- Come on.

- Why don't you wash it off?

I want to show you the inside.

- Jerry!

- OK.

Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.

- Come on, Kirk.

- Here, man, you wash it off.

You don't think that guy would try

and follow us?

What for?

Where's my knife? Kirk?

It looks like it must've been a nursery.

This is my room. I got to stay here one time

when I was eight years old.

- Right after my grandmother died.

- What happened?

- What happened to my grandmother?

- Yeah. She died.

- What do you think of the wallpaper?

- It's seen better days.

These animals used to talk me to sleep

when I was little.

Look at the zebras.

I had these fascination for the zebras.

Sally!

Sally!

Hee-hee-hee-hee, hee-hee-hee-hee.

Hee-hee-hee-hee.

Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee.

Come on, Franklin.

It's gonna be a fun trip.

If I have any more fun today,

I don't think I'm going to be able to take it.

Aah! Ah!

- Hey, Franklin.

- Hey, Franklin. What's wrong?

You said there was a swimming hole

around here?

Yeah.

Well, Pam and I would like to go swimming,

man.

Uh, there used to be a trail

down between those two old sheds.

Come on, we'll find it.

- Are Jerry and Sally going?

- No. We'll see you in an hour or so.

Yeah.

We'll see you in about an hour or so.

Sally?

Sally!

Zero in the world.

Just shoot him

and put us out of our misery.

- Snakes and spiders!

- Stop it!

And scorpions! Man-eating lizards.

- Kirk, help. Kirk!

- Ow. Ow.

Oh.

Crap.

This must be it.

Oh, are you OK?

How the hell did Franklin

ever get down here, anyway?

Somebody must've carried him

when he was little.

Franklin never was little.

Gasoline.

I can leave him my guitar, give him a

couple bucks. We're coming back anyway.

I can pick up my guitar, give him a couple

more dollars and bring him some gas.

They don't want your guitar.

They won't want to sell us gas.

Let's just go back now.

Hey, come here.

Come here and look at this.

- A generator.

- What?

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Kim Henkel

Kim David Henkel (born January 19, 1946) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He is best known as the co-writer of Tobe Hooper's horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. more…

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