Interesting thing in TCM.

[Omega]

I was watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre again a couple nights ago, and noticed something really cool I never did before.

You know the radio news broadcast playing over the shot of the "corpse art" right before the opening titles? Well, just keep listening through the titles and into the scene with Franklin tinkling (it won't let me say PlSS?)and falling down the hill. It's really interesting, as everything that's being reported is an atrocity, and the grave robbings are just another terrible thing going on in the world. I'm not sure if that was meant as some sort of social commentary, but if it was, it's a damn good job.

The commentary on the disc with Hooper doesn't mention anything about it, so I have my doubts.


Omega :confused:

[MikePizzoff]

I'm pretty sure the grave-robbings were caused by the family. That's what I always took it as.

[Omega]

I'm pretty sure the grave-robbings were caused by the family. That's what I always took it as.

No ****in' duh. What I was getting at was that everything in the news that comes after the grave robbing report was just as bad. They report about terrorism in South America (I think), people being killed with their genitals removed, a couple keeping their baby chained in the attic, etc. Just listen over the title sequence and when we're first introduced to the characters, it's all there.