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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Texas chainsaw massacre / Vortex ; story and screenplay, Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper ; producer/director, Tobe Hooper.

Edition:

40th anniversary.

Publisher, Date:

Orland Park, IL : MPI Media Group : Dark Sky Films, 2014.

Description:

1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

40 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family, and horror cinema would never be the same. Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, director Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on a politically and socially tumultuous America in 1974.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R.

Subjects:

Murder -- Texas -- Drama.

Cannibalism -- Drama.

Feature films.

Horror films.

Other Author:

Henkel, Kim, screenwriter.

Hooper, Tobe, 1943-2017 film producer, film director.

Burns, Marilyn, 1949-2014 actor.

Danziger, Allen, actor.

Partain, Paul A., 1955- actor.

Vortex Films (Firm), production company.

MPI Media Group.

Dark Sky Films, film distributor.

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.

Bonus features: 4 commentaries.

Cinematographer, Daniel Pearl ; editors, Sallye Richardson and J. Larry Carroll ; music score, Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell ; music performes, Arkey Blue, Roger Bartlett & Friends, Timberline Rose, Los Cyclones.

Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1); Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0, mono.

English dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles.

ISBN:

078861777X

9780788617775

Publisher Number:

DVD8090

Other Number:

889964989

System Availability:

8

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

8

Control Number:

449771

# Local items in:

8

# System items in:

8

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Texas ch