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“The Exorcist.” “Alien.” “Carrie” (one of the two films that made me want to be a film critic). Just think of all the classics that came out during that era. I became a horror fanatic in the ’70s, because I happened to grow up then, but also because that decade was a high-water mark for horror, one that spawned so many of the tropes that rule horror cinema to this day. “Owen PLEASE explain the Texas Chainsaw Massacre parallel.” “What do you expect from a by-the-numbers hack like Gleiberman?”
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“Totally excremental review by someone who doesn’t know excrement about the subject matter.” How is the original Halloween a knockoff of TCM?! Had you said Black Christmas, I would’ve been like I can accept that. “Hey Variety, if you ever want someone who’s actually seen Halloween ’78 and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre enough times to know they’re really NOTHING alike, hit me up.” This following behind a long, sad chain of critics who have no respect for the horror genre.” “I think we can all dismiss Owen Gleiberman’s Halloween Kills review as he thinks the original Halloween stole directly from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. “Halloween is a knock-off of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on what planet? They couldn’t be any more different in style, tone, story, social commentary, etc.” Here are some tweets that sum up the reaction:
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I felt it didn’t need to be belabored again.īut oh, what a trigger that sentence turned out to be! The response on Twitter was fast and brutal. What I meant is that I had no active desire to explore it, since I’ve already explored it so often. I never intended to leave the topic for another time. Looking back over the history of the slasher film, a subject I’ve been writing about for nearly as long as it’s been around, I described the original 1978 “ Halloween” as “a mayhem-by-the-numbers knockoff of ‘ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,'” adding, “but let’s leave that topic for another time.” That was meant to be a shorthand quip. It was one sentence, tucked inside a parentheses. Last month, in my review of “Halloween Kills” (which was premiering at the Venice Film Festival), I wrote something that ticked off a whole lot of readers, though in this case the offense wasn’t my decidedly negative review of the film. Maybe that’s why when we disagree about them, it can feel like war.
#THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE ED GEIN MOVIE#
A great horror movie hits you on every level - heart, mind, eye, squirm-in-your-seat body shudder. Over the years, I’ve ticked off more horror fans than I can count, and it’s all because of something that we totally share: a passion for the genre that’s nothing short of consuming. If I had to list my three greatest hits of outrage, they would probably be my pans of “Pretty Woman,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Let the Right One In.” It’s no accident that the last of those is a horror film. Occasionally a critic will write something that gets readers seriously riled.