Parents Guide for
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) More at IMDbPro »

No sex or nudity.

There are several acts of violence with minimal blood. The film's premise is disgusting but the violent content is very mild especially compared to modern day films. While this film isn't graphicly violent, it is definitely brutal and hard to handle.

A man cuts himself and another person with a pocketknife.

A roomful of bones (human and chicken) are shown.

A skinned corpse is seen.

Leatherface has a mask made of human skin.

Two people are hit with sledgehammers and killed.

A girl is hung on a meathook, thrown into a freezer, and lunges out at her friend when he opens it, but leatherface shoves her back in.

A man is killed with a chainsaw offscreen.

Intestines are shown dangling on a net.

Organs are shown cooking in a fire.

A girl and a boy are beaten with a broom.

A girl's finger is cut, and sucked on by a man who looks like a corpse.

A man is ripped to shreds when he is run over by a truck.

Leatherface has a wrech thrown at his head and he falls and drops a chainsaw on his leg and slices it open.

Some mild profanity. 2 uses of "bitch".

Wine and liquor are shown in the background.

A woman is mentaly tortured at a table, and soon after is almost beaten with a hammer over a washbucket.

A person gets brutally massacred with a chainsaw.

A girl gets hung on a meathook.

The opening death is terrifying, involving a disturbing croaking noise, a jump scare, and violence with a sledgehammer.

Half the movie is an extremely intense chase scene, in which a girl runs into a gas station for help, and the man there turns out to be leatherface's assistant.

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