As ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Turns 50, ‘Chain Reaction’ Explores Its Enduring Appeal

As ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Turns 50, ‘Chain Reaction’ Explores Its Enduring Appeal

Five notables are on hand to testify about the film’s impact on their lives and careers. The broader culture and the body politic figure into it as well.

Stephen King Opens Up About How THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Shook Him to His Core — GeekTyrant

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre isn’t just one of the most important horror films ever made, it’s a movie that still crawls under people’s skin nearly fifty years later. The 1974 classic from director Tobe Hooper is now the subject of a brand new documentary, Chain Reactions, directed by Alexandre O. Philippe. The film explores the legacy of Hooper’s nightmare through the eyes of five creators deeply impacted by it: Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Tak…

Stephen King discusses the greatness of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in Chain Reactions documentary clip

Documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe’s works have covered such subjects as fan disenchantment with George Lucas (The People vs. George Lucas), zombie culture (Doc of the Dead), Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (78/52), the original Alien (Memory: The Origins of Alien), The Exorcist (Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist), David Lynch’s obsession with The Wizard of Oz (Lynch/Oz), and the life of William Shatner (You Can Call Me Bill), so it mak…

Exclusive CHAIN REACTIONS Clip: Karyn Kusama On THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE's Scariest Scene

To celebrate the release of Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary CHAIN REACTIONS, we’ve got an exclusive clip of JENNIFER’S BODY director Karyn Kusama dissecting one of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE’s most terrifying scenes.

Film Review: Chain Reactions

Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Fifty years after Tobe Hooper unleashed his singular vision, aptly titled The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, unique documentary Chain Reactions takes a deeply personal examination at the film’s legacy from multiple viewpoints. Structured as a series of video essays from five distinct voices—Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, and Karyn Kusama—this one is less a conventional documentary and more…