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Released
1974 · FILM

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Teenager Sally Hardesty and her friends embark on a weekend road trip across rural Texas, only to discover a macabre graveyard display that awakens a vengeful spirit forcing them into a nightmarish fight for survival before sunrise.

“Who will survive and what will be left of them?”

Directed by
Tobe Hooper
Written by
Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
83 min
Horror
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Five friends travel to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. Along the way, they come across what seems to be an abandoned house, only to uncover something sinister inside. Something is armed with a chainsaw.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by J Larry CarrollShot by Daniel PearlScored by Wayne Bell

Box Office

1974 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 221× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$30.9M

Budget$140K
Worldwide gross$30.9M
break-even (2.5×)

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Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Blutgericht in Texasde
  • Das Kettensägemassakerde
  • Die Besite mit der Ledermaskede
  • Die Bestie mit der Ledermaskede
  • Kettensägenmassakerde
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Blutgericht in Texasde
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacreen
  • La Matanza de Texases
  • Massacre à la tronçonneusefr
  • Non aprite quella portait

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