The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Page #3

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
1,643 Views


A generator! For electricity.

Hey, hello in there! Is anybody here?

Hello, is anybody home?

I got something for you.

Ah!

Ooh!

Let's go!

Hello?

- Hey, Pam, come look at this.

- What? No!

Hello?

Is anybody home?

Hello?

Hey, Pam.

Hello?

Kirk?

Kirk!

Kirk?

Kirk.

Kirk?

Kirk?

Oh! Oh, God!

Kirk! Kirk!

He's gonna get you, Franklin.

- You don't think it means anything?

- We'll protect you.

- I'll bet it's about me.

- He's gonna kill you, Franklin.

- It probably doesn't mean anything, huh?

- You worry too much.

He couldn't find us anyway.

I mean, he doesn't even know our names.

I gave him your name.

I told him where you live.

I even gave him your zip code.

He's gonna kill you.

Jerry.

- What are you doing?

- I can't find my knife.

That knife won't do you any good.

He likes that knife.

When did you have it last?

Well, I didn't have it last.

You had it last.

I gave it to you. Remember?

What did you do with it?

I don't know.

Didn't I give it back to you?

No. I didn't have it

when I got out of the van.

- You just never gave it back to me.

- All right, I'll look for it.

I think I'll walk down to the creek

before it gets too dark. How do I get there?

Well, there's a trail down there

between them two old sheds.

- Can I go, too?

- I think you'd better stay here.

All right.

I can't find it.

Are you mad at me?

No, I'm not mad at you.

You really are mad, huh?

Oh, I don't blame you.

I'm...

Kirk!

You really didn't want me to come,

did you?

Oh, Franklin, I'm just tired.

It's been a long day.

Sally, did you believe in all that stuff

that Pam was telling about

Saturn and retrograde and all that?

I don't know.

Everything means something, I guess.

Yeah.

You don't think that guy

would try and follow us, do you?

Well, I mean, there's no way

that he could follow us.

He's probably afraid Kirk will kill him.

Sally?

What now?

Nothing.

Never mind.

Kirk!

Hello?

Is anybody home?

Excuse me, I'm looking for some friends.

Hello?

Is anybody here?

Damn.

Kirk?

Are you guys in there?

Hey, guys, quit playing games.

Quit goofing on me.

Pam, is that you?

OK, you guys.

Come on out. Come on!

Kirk?

They must be lost.

They don't have a flashlight or anything.

If they're not back in a minute,

we've got to go look for them.

Well, what if we get lost, too?

Sally, we ought to go to that gas station

and get help.

I'm not leaving here without Jerry.

Jerry!

Jerry!

Jerry!

Jerry!

- Jerry!

- Jerry!

Hey!

They'll probably be back in a minute or so.

Sally, we ought to go to that gas station.

Sally?

I think we ought to go.

Are the keys in the van?

- Could I see the flashlight for a minute?

- What for?

Let me see the flashlight. I'll go

look for them. You don't have to go.

Sally, don't go.

I don't think that's a good idea.

I don't think you ought to go.

I'm going to honk the horn one more time.

- Just give me the flashlight.

- No.

Now, I'm gonna honk the horn,

and we're gonna wait a minute,

and then if they don't come, we'll go.

All right?

Sally, they took the keys.

We don't have any keys.

They took the keys with them.

Stop it! Stop it!

Stop it! Franklin!

- Jerry took the keys with him!

- Give me that flashlight!

No, Sally, we can't go! Look, what if

they came back and we weren't here?

- Give me that flashlight!

- No, I've got to take the flashlight.

- I'm gonna go look for them.

- All right, all right, I'll go with you.

No, Sally. Come on, I'll go with you,

but I'm gonna keep the flashlight.

- Give me the flashlight!

- Look, I'll go with you.

I can't push you down that hill!

Sally, look, I know. Oh!

- I'll go with you, but I'm going to hold...

- Never mind, I'll just go without it.

All right, all right. Sally, wait!

Sally, wait a minute! I'm coming with you.

Sally? Hold up a minute now.

All right, let's go.

Let's go. I'll go with you.

Sally, I can't keep up with you.

Sally?

Sally, wait a minute.

Hold up.

Jerry!

Jerry!

Jerry!

Jerry!

Wait.

- I thought I heard something.

- There's a light.

- Yeah?

- Yes.

Oh, it looks like a house.

Well, come on, push.

Come on, push.

Push down. There.

- It's a house.

- Yeah? I can't see it very well.

Oh, Franklin, this is impossible.

Come on, Sally.

Get back and push down.

This is impossible.

I hear something out there.

Look.

- Hey, Jerry!

- Jerry!

Jerry!

Sally, I hear something.

Stop. Stop.

Somebody, please!

Help!

Help me, please!

Somebody, help me!

Help!

Please! Please! Please help me!

Please!

Help! Help me!

Help!

Help! Help!

Help!

Help! Help me!

Help me! Oh, God!

Help, help!

Close the door. Help me.

Whoa, there, whoa, whoa.

- Come over here.

- Somebody's trying to kill me.

Help, help...

Calm down. You're all right, you're OK.

- Oh, now, take it easy.

- Call the police.

- He might come.

- Now, what happened?

- He... he... he killed...

- Now, now, take it easy.

He killed Franklin.

I don't know. Call the police!

- Take it easy.

- And Jerry.

I... I don't-I don't know

what happened to the others.

There's nobody out there now.

Come on. Come on now, take it easy.

Come on, take it easy.

- Oh, please.

- What happened?

Please. Call the police.

There's no phone here.

We... we have to drive over to Childress.

Yeah, yeah.

Now, you take it easy.

Take it easy now. I'll get the truck.

- Now, now, take it easy. Take it easy.

- Don't go.

Take it easy.

Weather is expected to

be warm to partly cloudy tomorrow

with no chance of precipitation.

The high today will be in the upper 90s

and a low tonight of 81 degrees.

Current temperature is 96 with winds

out the southeast at three miles a hour.

Humidity 98,

barometer is at 29.9 and rising.

Acting on a tip,

the Muerto County sheriff's office

began an investigation early this morning

in the Muerto County Cemetery

opening crypts where there was

evidence of tampering.

The sheriff's deputies found a reported

dozen coffins robbed of their contents.

According to the sheriff,

there were cadavers in which the heads

and extremities were removed,

and others in which only a hand or foot

had been removed.

Maldonado has information

linking the robberies

to a large and well-organized

West Coast jewel theft ring

but declined to suggest any reason

for them to mutilate the cadavers.

- What are you doing?

- You ain't got no need to worry.

No!

You just cooperate, young lady,

and we'll have no trouble.

- Now, listen...

- What do you want?

Now, there's no need to do that.

Nobody's going to hurt you.

No!

No! No! No!

Had to lock up and get the lights.

Cost of electricity is enough to

drive a man out of business.

Uh, I hope you're not

too uncomfortable down there.

You got nothing to worry about. You just

take it easy, and we'll be there soon.

Now, now, now, now.

There's no need to do that, no.

We'll be over this in a bit.

Hang on.

Halfwits.

Little coon shits.

Come here, you nap-haired idiot!

- Where have you been?

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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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