10 Scariest Horror Movie Scenes Set In The Day

To say it is one of the most iconic and influential slasher movies of all time, 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre doesn't actually show too much in terms of gore, and at no point are the cannibal family actually shown to eat any human flesh.

Yet it manages to do a lot with a little, with the fear and psychological aspects playing a bigger part than the visceral, physical moments. That, however, makes it so much more effective when the gruesome stuff does happen.

The worst of this came just as Pam (Teri McMinn) enters the Sawyer abode (though they wouldn't receive their name until the sequel) only to find a demented house of horrors. Bones are littered across the floor, furniture is made from human bodies, and, worst of all, Gunnar Hansen's Leatherface is none-too-pleased that she didn't knock first.

Pam begins to scream and even makes it outside the front door, only for Leatherface to quickly catch her, drag her back inside to the kitchen, and, in one of the most iconic, disturbing scenes of horror cinema, hang her from a meat hook. As she is impaled, the screams die in her throat. Leatherface then starts up his chainsaw (a real tool that was inches from Kirk actor William Vail's head) and dices up her boyfriend in front of her. 

This was distressing, and with no darkness to shadow what was going on, there was nothing to see but Leatherface at his most demented.