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Old 01-14-2012, 08:12 AM
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Do you remember when you first watched it? VHS or DVD?
I was a little late seeing this. It was 2005 or 2006. I was working at a Hollywood Video and i was working alone. It was slow and there was nobody in the store either. We had one of those little TV's with the VCR built in and so i decided to watch in the middle of the day.

Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?
Oh of course. I had heard a lot about it especially how good it was so my expectations were pretty high.

How was the viewing experience?
Despite watching it on a tiny tv, in the middle of the day while keeping an eye out for customers and my boss of course, i still loved it and it has stayed one of my favorite horror movies to this day. I still hold that the scene where you first see Leatherface is one of the scariest moments of any horror movie.

How many times have you rewatched it since?
A few times. It's not a movie i can watch over and over again and frankly i don't want it to. The horror movies i love the most i tend to not watch that much so i can contain that special feeling every time i watch it.

Any memories associated with it, that you wish to share?
I own a container of dirt from where the movie was filmed.
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Old 01-14-2012, 10:30 AM
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1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? VHS or DVD?

2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?

3 - How was the viewing experience?

4 - How many times have you rewatched it since?

5 - Any memories associated with it, that you wish to share?
1) The mid 80's. I was 9 or so. It was my Dad's VHS.

2) I did from my Dad and Uncle. They warned me it was "brutal" and I might be too young to watch it. I had already seen Halloween, F13, and NOES ...so we popped it in.

3) It blew my mind. The macabre atmosphere and the insanity was a lot for a 9 year old kid.

4) Too many to count.

5) It's the film that left me wondering... "Does it get any crazier then this?"
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Old 01-15-2012, 03:23 PM
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1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? VHS or DVD?

I first watched it one school holidays, think I was about 13 or 14. Watched it on VHS when it turned up one day at the video store. I'd been wanting to see it for years! This is the tape right here:



2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?

Out of all the horror films I'd read and heard about this one had the biggest reputation. Heard it was extreme and it was all TRUE and actually happened! I remember seeing clips of it on Summer School and I had been on the hunt for it ever since.

3 - How was the viewing experience?

It was a bit underwhelming as the film's reputation/title had lead me to believe the film would be a shocking wall to wall gorefest. A lot of what makes the film so effective was lost on the teenage version of me. I still dug it a lot and thought it was a great film especially how it looked and the style of it in general. I had just built up something different in my mind. It had quite an impact on me changing my taste in film giving me a love for gritty realism.

4 - How many times have you rewatched it since?

Countless times and it just gets better every time I watch it (after discussing it here I'm going to watch it again tonight!). It's the quintessential horror classic for me and IMO one of the greatest flicks to come out of the US. It's so good I own three different copies :D

The shower scene in Psycho gets talked about a lot but Kirk's death is a lot more unsettling. I get goosebumps when Leatherface slides that door shut. Amazing scene.



5 - Any memories associated with it, that you wish to share?

I remember lots of the other kids lied and said they had seen it haha which I found out wasn't true once I'd seen it myself.
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Old 01-15-2012, 03:28 PM
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1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? VHS or DVD?

None of the above. It was in a dusty darkened theatre at a midnight showing in Omaha, Nebraska, stoned as all fuck, with a group of teenage friends.
Haha that's awesome. I wish I could've seen it the same way. Would've been a whole different experience seeing it when it came out. It's just got such a folklore behind it now it's impossible to go into it with a clean slate. It would be great if they restored a print and this hit the theatres again.
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Old 01-16-2012, 06:57 AM
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When I was at uni one of my housemates had it on vhs I remember us all being excited (this would have been 2000)about it. We had some spacecakes, smoking and bucket bonging weed while it was on so we were all pretty fucked and completely hynotized by how intense it was. Surprisingly none of us got the giggles but all throroughly enjoyed it.
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This is the tape right here:
That VHS cover art looks killer! Wish we had one of those around these parts.

Anyone else remember their first encounter with Leatherface?
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Old 01-17-2012, 05:17 AM
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Do you remember when you first watched it? VHS or DVD?
I honestly can't remember the first time I watched it, whether it was in the theater or on VHS.

Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?
I remember seeing the trailers for it on TV and thinking it looked pretty good.

How was the viewing experience?
Can't remember

How many times have you rewatched it since?
A few times.

Any memories associated with it, that you wish to share?
Can't think of any.
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Old 01-17-2012, 08:38 AM
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1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? VHS or DVD
Couple of years back, on dvd.

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2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?
As usually plenty of recs from almost every top horror film list online.

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3 - How was the viewing experience?
Truly one of a kind. Got a 'real' 70's found footage vibe on it. Watched it alone in a middle of the night. Totally blew me away.

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4 - How many times have you rewatched it since?
Not much...2 or 3 times.

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After looking for it years finally found an original dvd on a store. But probably showing my huge interest for it, they didn't sell the original copy as they had only one. They told me to give them some time (days) to make couple of pirated dvd copies of it by copying it into the blank dvds. I gave them a week & requested them make a good copy for me. When I went back next week to buy & collect it from the store I found the dvd with a wrong cover. As they didn't know much about it, they used a poor photocopy cover of the remake for the dvd disc & the box. To make sure I requested them to play for me on their player. The funny thing happened when the dvd started to play...before appearing the dvd/disc options like play, scene selection, special features etc. there is the scene of Sally tied up in a chair & the camera is moving back & forth on her bloody face and she was screaming like hell. The scene & the sound instantly grabbed the attention from everyone who were inside & just outside the store at that time. Believe me...for a moment they all thought it's something very original. Slowly one after another started to ask about the movie with a jaw-dropping expression in their face. The seller at the store was freaked out too as he never checked even the original dvd until then. Only one exception was me...there was one big smile on my face with tons of satisfaction like conquering something very desirable after a long search & time.
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Moving on...to everyone's favorite cult classic.


1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? VHS or DVD?

2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?

3 - How was the viewing experience?

4 - How many times have you rewatched it since?

5 - Any memories associated with it, that you wish to share?
1. Oh yes. I rented from one of the small video shops in town, over one night at a friend's house. My parent's wouldn't have let me watch it, so that always made it even more exciting. This was VHS of course, and it blew us away. I even remember realizing back then that there wasn't much blood, that Hooper implied much more than he showed, and that made it even more terrifying. Also, just the chance of it all, that these kids could be anybody anywhere, scared me too.

2. Yes, at the time, I'd buy Fangoria issues whenever I actually saved some allowance money. Of course, I'd read about it plenty in there.

3. Like I said, we were blown away. That year for Hallowe'en, my friend and I argued who would dress up as Leatherface. He ended up doing it. Asshole.

4. Countless times. It's absolutely one of my favorite horror films ever.

5. Yes:

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That is amazing. Man, I wish I had one of those.
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Old 01-19-2012, 09:51 AM
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After looking for it years finally found an original dvd on a store. But probably showing my huge interest for it, they didn't sell the original copy as they had only one. They told me to give them some time (days) to make couple of pirated dvd copies of it by copying it into the blank dvds. I gave them a week & requested them make a good copy for me. When I went back next week to buy & collect it from the store I found the dvd with a wrong cover. As they didn't know much about it, they used a poor photocopy cover of the remake for the dvd disc & the box. To make sure I requested them to play for me on their player. The funny thing happened when the dvd started to play...before appearing the dvd/disc options like play, scene selection, special features etc. there is the scene of Sally tied up in a chair & the camera is moving back & forth on her bloody face and she was screaming like hell. The scene & the sound instantly grabbed the attention from everyone who were inside & just outside the store at that time. Believe me...for a moment they all thought it's something very original. Slowly one after another started to ask about the movie with a jaw-dropping expression in their face. The seller at the store was freaked out too as he never checked even the original dvd until then. Only one exception was me...there was one big smile on my face with tons of satisfaction like conquering something very desirable after a long search & time.
Quite an experience.

Moving on...
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