The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation

by Joseph Lanza

Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social climate, and impact of a movie that rattled the American psyche in the wake of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam.

When Tobe Hooper's low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure with disgust and reverence. The film--in which a group of teenagers meet a gruesome end when they stumble upon a ramshackle farmhouse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1510737901
• ISBN13: 9781510737907
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 8.9"