Happy Thankskilling! Having Dinner with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

- Rated: R
- Genre: 1970's, Horror
- Release Date: 10/01/1974
- Directed by: Tobe Hooper
- Starring: Allen Danziger, Edwin Neal, Gunnar Hansen, Jim Siedow, John Dugan, Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Teri McMinn, William Vail
Ah, Thankskilling – a term coined by fellow Cinema Midnight scribe, Jeremy. And this holiday-viewing suggestion comes just in time to celebrate this horrific take on the most gluttonous of American traditions.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – the 1974 version, not the over-stylized remake – is a quintessential Thankskilling film, primarily because of that penultimate scene of family dinner madness.
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