Texas Chainsaw of Massacre

Texas Chainsaw of Massacre(1974), written and directed by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel, has been seen as a spin off of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 hit ‘Psycho’. There was a new version of the film made and released in 2003 as a re-make, but still covered the codes and conventions of different slasher films in the past. Both films included a psychopathic killer out to kill whoever gets in their way.

Both films, uses Clover theory of the ‘final girl’, always having a last girl who is trying to save herself through-out the whole of a slasher film. In this case, both final girl’s face the battle of saving herself and her friends from leatherface who is out to murder all. The 2003 re-make uses elements of the zeitgeist as it has an impact on the way both of the plots differ from each other. In addition, the original film reflects up on the zeitgeist the way at the time, an example of this is the way the characters go to the gas station and the gas station owner says how the gas is coming. This is reflected on the times actual economic environment, and the way that the country was short of gas and the time. They are also on the way to visit one of their friends granddad’s grave, whereas in the newer version they are shown to be going to a music concert, showing how peoples priorities have changed now, and are more interested in doing things that insteres themself.

The remake has different chararcter types in the film, one way they differ is that now the auidence see the teenagers, picking up a female hitch hiker who shoots her self in the van. This differs from the original on how previously it was a male and leatherfaces actual brother but this time the character as represented as a traumatised victim most definately of leatherface. The reason why the girl is represented as a vicitim of leather face is because of thefact that as she acts traumatised and very worried in the beginning, is exactly the same way the final girl acts at th end of the movie.