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 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 Sally (Marilyn Burns) thought she had escaped, when the maniacal Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) gave chase. There was no reason given for why the family were like they were, which only made things worse, but how Sally was kept in the house and prevented from escaping again was utterly disgusting.

Effectively driving home that Leatherface saw her not as a human but just as another food source, she was hung from the ceiling by a meat hook in her back while fully conscious and screaming. This was distressing, and with no darkness to shadow what was going on, there was nothing to see but Leatherface at his most demented.