12 Perfect Horror Movies With One Glaring Flaw

This is a very similar case to Alien.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a brilliant and terrifying horror film complete with harrowingly tense set-pieces, mesmerising direction, watertight pacing and unforgettable villains... it's just a damn shame the victim characters are so boring.

Although Marilyn Burns does a good job as 'final girl' Sally, the character herself is fairly by-the-numbers, while her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) is widely and deservedly remembered as one of the most irritating victims in horror movie history.

As for the other three, most would struggle to even picture, let alone name any of them.

As stunning as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is for the most part, the characterisation problem is the one thing holding the film back from being a 10/10.

Ironically enough, although the 2003 remake wasn't good and was inferior in nearly every way, it actually managed to come up with a better round-up of characters, so it did actually fix the original's biggest problem despite falling short of it in every other department.