13 Movies That Only IMPROVE With Age

9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror masterpiece improves with age for a unique and somewhat paradoxical reason: it kinda looks like crap.

Hooper's film boasts a deliberately scuzzy, rough-around-the-edges aesthetic which makes it feel more lived-in and even "believable", and it's only natural that the film looks ever more beaten up and ugly as the years have passed.

And you know what? It totally works in the movie's favour.

Its roughshod cinematography and low-fi production only further evoke the grimy vibe Hooper was initially shooting for, enhancing the atmosphere and therefore the audience's unease at what they're watching.

There aren't many movies that age "well" in this regard, but Hooper's film is a perfect collision of lurid subject matter and agreeably messy production values.

Furthermore, early reviews of the international 4K Blu-ray release seem to confirm that the UHD remaster treatment has done little to "clean up" the original dirtied aesthetic, and in fact only draws further attention to the blurry, mucky shooting style.