Chainsaw massacre

Sort By:
Page 1 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a prequel to the 2003 movie. This movie is about two brothers who decide to go on a road trip with their girlfriends before one brother goes off to the Vietnam War. They get into an accident, and one member of the Hewitt family is there. He decides to take the young adults back to his house where they are tortured and tormented by the Hewitt family. There have been numerous movies about the Hewitt/Sawyer family. In the 2003 and 2006 version of The Texas

    • 1792 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Texas Chainsaw Massacre El Paso, Texas was a small quiet town. Anything and everything modern like theaters and shopping malls were a long drive away and there was one high school that everyone went to. This was where my parents were from. We visited quite frequently and there was something unique about each visit. One visit, it was a gloomy day at my Grandma’s house and we were isolated by the muddy and wet elements outside her walls. My brother and I were rotting with boredom and we did not hesitate

    • 766 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    • 830 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Texas Chainsaw Massacre Helped with the Expansion of the LGBT Movement Texas Chainsaw Massacre pushes the boundaries of cinematic horror. The movie has the viewers infer the gore and deaths of some of the characters. It does not show the blood or the dismembering of the victim, but the viewer still feels as if they watched it actually happen. The director Tobe Hooper has the viewer realize on their own the hidden messages within his film. The film has been correlated to the representation of the

    • 830 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    (Solomon 795). This theme is evident in Drayton Sawyer’s character in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. One side of Drayton is the small businessman, enjoying the win of the local chili cook-off; he may be a little abrasive but he is socially adept. Drayton comments “No secret, it's the meat. Don't skimp on the meat. I've got a real good eye for prime meat. Runs in the family. Must’a missed peppercorn.” (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2). His explanation provides a window into both sides of his personality,

    • 1513 Words
    • 7 Pages
    • 4 Works Cited
    Better Essays
  • Best Essays

    civilization has two sides. There are many theories as to why humans act the way they do, such as Steven King’s “beast within” and “potential lyncher” theories and Stanley Solomon’s “exploration” and “romantic isolationism” theories. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 does a fantastic job of displaying these theories about the horror genre if one knows what they are looking for. Learning about why humans react the way they do to horror films based on the theories of well-known psychologists and horror

    • 2024 Words
    • 9 Pages
    • 1 Works Cited
    Best Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows Sally and her friends when they take a trip to see her grandfather’s old home, unfortunately when they wander outside the property they get attacked by the family of cannibals living next door. The sole survivor is Sally. Teeth follows teen virgin Dawn who after being raped realizes she has vagina dentata, she then harnesses it with the intent of avenging herself against those who have wronged her. In order to compare these two films, I will be analyzing how each interacts

    • 592 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I hate it to break it to you but The Texas Chainsaw Massacre isn't a true story. I will go into more detail in this essay. There has been many serial killers over time but one in particular was Edward Theodore Gein, Ed was a notorious killer and a grave robber who then inspired several movies like Norman Bates (Psycho), Jame Gumb (The Silence of the Lambs) and Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre). So if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have those movies that so many people like. Edward Gein was born

    • 776 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    If Texas Chainsaw Massacre is about cannibalistic family, The Silence of the Lambs is about two individuals that are. One day the main character, Clarice, was pulled from her training to talk to the head of the Behavioral Science Unit. He sent her on a secret mission to interview Hannibal Lector, a cannibalistic psychiatrist, to discover more facts about a murder called Buffalo Bill. Clarice travels to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane where Lector is being prisoned. They talked

    • 682 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and And Then There Were None, they are many similarities displayed about human nature. Both stories share motifs of being trapped. They also prove that humans can be very savage and very sadistic. The similarities between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and And Then There Were None prove that humans are is undefined. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , the protagonist character, Heather, heard that her grandfather's grave have been vandalized, in which her and her brother

    • 865 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    Analysis, Theory and Application The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Nicole Weaver English 162 Professor Mark Justice 29 January 2012 Exploration, Transformation, and Metamorphosis in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, a sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre released in 1974, is a 1986 film directed by Tobe Hooper. This sequel is set 13 years after the events that transpired in the first film and follows Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright, played by Dennis Hopper,

    • 2977 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Better Essays
Previous
Page12345678950