Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
#1
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi
This was on tv and the description for the movie had (scifi/horror) next to it. The sun flares in the beginning of the movie and the radio talking about strange happenings that they're somehow affected by the flares, then the guys are talking about astrology signs too in there and there are shots of the sun later on, that the crazyness is caused by strange cosmic forces. This is a science fiction element to the story. What do you think?
Last edited by FRwL; 08-07-09 at 04:38 PM.
#2
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
It's Horror. The TV description probably just used a broad category label...
#6
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
Fiction = yes but Scifi is a big no. It amazes me that every year I have to explain to at least 1 or 2 groups of students that this movie was not a true story but simply loosely based around one individual that didn't even live in texas or use a chainsaw.
#7
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
Not to go off topic, but wasn't it some guy in Wisconsin?
#8
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
^ Assuming we're talking about Ed Gein, yes he lived in Wisconsin.
#10
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
I love this movie, it is in no way scifi.
#11
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
Haven't you seen the deleted footage where Sally escapes by flying off in her spaceship?
#12
Banned by request
#13
DVD Talk Reviewer/Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Formerly known as L. Ron zyzzle - On a cloud of Judgement
Posts: 14,482
Received 1,835 Likes
on
1,230 Posts
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
I've always viewed Saw as a rom-com.
#15
DVD Talk Legend
#17
DVD Talk Legend
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Behind the Orange Curtain
Posts: 20,085
Likes: 0
Received 7 Likes
on
7 Posts
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
If you make the mistake of considering the horrendously-bad TCM: The Next Generation canon then, yes, it prob. could be sci-fi.
But that film doesn't exist to me.
But that film doesn't exist to me.
#20
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
#21
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
At least it's arguably closer than the other two movies that are partially inspired by Gein: Psycho and Silence of the Lambs.
#22
DVD Talk Special Edition
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
Posts: 1,232
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
Texas Chain Saw, no. Nothing accounted for the actions of the Sawyer family other than they were demented and sick. Those on the radio were offering a supposition about sun flares. No actual connection, though.
On a vaguely related note, I think an argument could be made that Maximum Overdrive is a sci-fi/horror tale. The earth passes through the tail of a comet, bringing machines to life and causing them to kill. Definite horror, but with a clear sci-fi undertone.
--THX
On a vaguely related note, I think an argument could be made that Maximum Overdrive is a sci-fi/horror tale. The earth passes through the tail of a comet, bringing machines to life and causing them to kill. Definite horror, but with a clear sci-fi undertone.
--THX
#24
DVD Talk Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Formerly known as Groucho AND Bandoman/Death Moans, Iowa
Posts: 18,295
Received 372 Likes
on
266 Posts
Re: Do you think Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74 is scifi?
Texas Chain Saw, no. Nothing accounted for the actions of the Sawyer family other than they were demented and sick. Those on the radio were offering a supposition about sun flares. No actual connection, though.
On a vaguely related note, I think an argument could be made that Maximum Overdrive is a sci-fi/horror tale. The earth passes through the tail of a comet, bringing machines to life and causing them to kill. Definite horror, but with a clear sci-fi undertone.
--THX
On a vaguely related note, I think an argument could be made that Maximum Overdrive is a sci-fi/horror tale. The earth passes through the tail of a comet, bringing machines to life and causing them to kill. Definite horror, but with a clear sci-fi undertone.
--THX