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

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

Gunnar Hansen

240 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography horror dark tense fast-paced

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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." Howe...

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