The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1974 1 hr 23 min

R

We have partnered with our friends at The Doylestown Bookshop to welcome NY Times bestselling and award-winning horror author Paul Tremblay and award-nominated author John Langan to the theater to introduce the film and discuss its influence on Paul's newest novel, HORROR MOVIE, and their writing. This is part of their day-long horror event, Dark Ink.

Often considered the most frightening motion picture ever made. This low-budget scream-fest follows five friends traveling throughout rural Texas who stumble upon an old farmhouse belonging to a chainsaw-wielding lunatic and his murderous family. Eerily beautiful, gritty, and downright terrifying – THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE remains unparalleled in the horror genre with its pitch-perfect tension and documentary-style camerawork. Rated R.

Book signing in the lobby prior to the film, followed by Q&A after the feature.

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie: A Novel, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and numerous "year's best" anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts, with his family and has a master's degree in mathematics.

Director Tobe Hooper

Cast Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, John Laroquette

Country USA

Language English

Aspect 1.85

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