Pod Sematary

CW: Suicide, Torture, Ableism, Negative Depictions of Neurodiversity

The Best of 2021 - #9 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

It’s a Texas Chainsaw Double Feature on Pod Sematary! Chris & Kelsey drive through Texas singing songs about other states—so, yeah, they deserve to die.

Read our afterthoughts for this episode here!

The Original: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
"Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas fall victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths” (IMDb.com). Famous for being a success story as both an indie and an exploitation horror, the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre is both gritty and grounded in a way that is guaranteed to disturb.

The Remake: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
"After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers” (IMDb.com). When Kelsey saw this movie at 16, having not seen the original, it shook her so bad that she had to get up and leave before the end. It was just that norm-breaking and effective at the time. Now that she's older and has seen the original, she may want to bail for different reasons.

Audio Sources:
"Adventures in Babysitting" produced by Touchstone Pictures & Silver Screen Partners III
"Beautiful Texas" written by W. Lee O'Daniel and performed by Willie Nelson
"Die Hard" produced by Twentieth Century Fox, et al.
"Muriel's Wedding" produced by CiBy 2000, et al.
"Pet Sematary" written by Dee Dee Ramone & Daniel Rey and performed by The Ramones
"Rocky Horror Picture Show" produced by Twentieth Century Fox & Michael White Productions
"Spaceballs" produced by Brooksfilms & Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
"Street Fighter" (1994) produced by Capcom Entertainment & Edward R. Pressman Productions
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974) produced by Vortex
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003) produced by New Line Cinema, et al.