If ever you needed proof that budget had nothing to do with quality film making, then Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre is just that. The saturated colours, the sense of dread that has rarely been bettered, the suffocating atmosphere of dust and heat and the sheer terror are simply masterful. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the finest true horror movies ever made and certainly one of the most influential - although not always in a positive way... A milestone for exploitation cinema every bit as much as horror, Texas Chainsaw Massacre remains one of cinema's most discussed and divisive of it's genre - whether it is over casting the Sawyers as victims themselves, the elements of parody of simply how Gunnar Hansen's portrayal of Leatherface as a terrified overgrown child is amongst the most underrated performances of the 70s.