dog with glasses

This movie activated my transformation kink when I was like 5. I badly wished I would be transformed like that, and I didn't understand why until a decade later

terrifier vs chucky

titane 2: son of titane

28 centuries later

prestige remake of abbot and costello meet the wolfman directed by guillermo del toro

stephen king's maximum overdrive (remake)

oculus vs candyman

sinners 2 (kicks off the sinnermatic universe)

sinners vs x-men

i was a teenage babadook

jay and silent bob meet the leprechaun

men 2: nonbinary

the menu vs midsommar

jeepers creepers kills the guy who directed jeepers creepers

weapons 2: aunt gladys takes The Substance

even longer legs

megan vs orphan

The cosmic horror and the social commentary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre fold together like two clasped hands. Much of the sense of cosmic horror and social commentary were probably accidental byproducts, but not wholly unintentional because there is no way to detach from either and there are some clear touchstones for both. And the extrapolation of these into more complex ideas is 100% attributing a degree of artistic intent which we know on record could not have existed. Too much of the movie was improvised in the moment due to low budget. Too much exists because everyone was physically and psychologically exhausted due to the miserable working conditions.

But it's such a good read on the final product. Everything from the seemingly undead grandpa to the blood symbol on the van to the sunspots for opening credits to the proto industrial score from Tobe Hooper fits so nicely into that theme, the rest of it falls into place. The heat, the nightime sequence, madness as the conclusion. It's wonderful, and when you understand the incomprehensibly vast monster is the USA itself, I think it's a way of making it understandable to a non-horror fan like it never has been before.