The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is more than just the title of a movie. It is, depending upon your perspective, either a threat or, to paraphrase Roger Ebert, a promise. From the moment you decide to watch the movie till the moment, fairly deep in, when the titular atrocity begins, you know you’re living on borrowed time. You have decided to watch a movie which you know, for a fact, includes a chain saw massacre. One of the smartest things I ever read in film school was that half the work of Tobe Hooper’s grisly, greasy torture-porn masterpiece was done by the title alone.
This episode of Chief of War is titled “The Day of Spilled Brains.”
I reviewed this week’s Chief of War for Decider.
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