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Why is this movie so frightening? It symbolizes an America without future, and no faith, hope or dreams for our children, where terror paralyzes the mind and monsters wait in ambush to prey on the weak and innocent. In Hooper's film, childhood memories become phantom killers haunting our nightmares and signify madness."Texas Chainsaw" is his fable declaring the death of the Anerican utopian dream, the vision of a New World that only lasted into the 20th century. Just as in most German expressionist films of the 1920s, absolute evil conquers. Hooper's movie wages ruthless and brutal warfare upon the optimism of a powerless middle class, most of his audience. This is his main object in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". But maybe there is something worse in this world that deserves his dark heartless humour and rage?
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