This movie is definitely dated and a bit cheap looking (it was cheap) but it's so damn weird that you find yourself thinking about it for days. The hitchhiker is one of the strangest characters ever commited to film. All the little things he pulls out of his fur "purse" and what he does with them...creepy. Leatherface is of course a classic american psycho right up there with Jason and Freddy - although he's scarier because he's realistic. Not superhuman, just demented....I really could imagine a guy doing that (supposedly Ed Gein came pretty close).
Overall is it scary? Not really, just effectively strange and mind-bending. By the time its over, you really feel like you've been trapped in that house and almost made into ground beef.
Overall is it scary? Not really, just effectively strange and mind-bending. By the time its over, you really feel like you've been trapped in that house and almost made into ground beef.