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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, famous American horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Hooper and Kim Henkel. Released in 1974, the film follows a group of young people who are victimized by a family of cannibals in rural Texas after their van runs out of gas at their abandoned family home. The film has proved both controversial and enduring, spawning an eight-film franchise and earning its chainsaw-wielding antagonist, Leatherface, a spot among...