92. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1973) - Tobe Hooper

92. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1973) - Tobe HooperFive friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was hands down the creepiest movie I saw when I was growing up, but you know what? I watched that damn thing over and over again. How could I watch a movie that terrified me so much, so often? I think it's because you want to be scared from a horror film, at least that's been my experience. And I think the aura about the movie (it was banned when in the UK when I was growing up) made it so popular. Along with The Evil Dead or A Nightmare on Elm Street, it was the movie that you discussed with your friends and watched during "horror" nights. The fact it was banned, added to it's stature. It's not just the fact that it was banned that made the movie so good though. It's creepy, gory (but not as gory as you may think, ala Halloween), tense and has such a methodical slow pace you would be mistaken for thinking what you were watching was infact real footage. A great movie that I re-visit at least once a year. A movie often imitated but never duplicated or bettered. A morally unforgiving masterpiece.