Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie

by Gunnar Hansen

Book Overview

When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre first hit movie screens in 1974 it was both reviled and championed. To critics, it was either "a degrading, senseless misuse of film and time" or "an intelligent, absorbing and deeply disturbing horror film." However it was an immediate hit with audiences. Banned and celebrated, showcased at the Cannes film festival and included in the New York MoMA's collection, it has now come to be recognized widely as one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1452114498
• ISBN13: 9781452114491
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"