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Re: Track the Films You Watch (2008)
Audioscopiks
1935 short film in 3D is historically interesting, but not very good otherwise, and since it's not presented on dvd with 3d glasses, not even all that interesting.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Based on all I'd heard I was expecting at the very least a scary movie. What a disappointment. This is about as scary as Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, for related, if different reasons.
Abbott & Costello is a comedy, so the 'horror' isn't scary at all. The comedy makes it all unrealistic and so there's nothing scary, but, in their defense, they weren't trying to be scary.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is trying to be scary, but ends up being even less believable than A&C. The acting is so horrible, that you are completely taken out of the film, and by the time the 'scary' part happens, you might as well be watching sock puppets being torn apart, although your average sock puppet is a much better actor than anyone in this film. The horribly amateur direction doesn't help either.
I don't think this is the worst horror film I've ever seen, but it is, without a doubt, the most overrated.
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