The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Directed by Tobe Hooper

WILLIAM FRIEDKIN SAYS: ''You're driving along on a country road, and you're kidnapped by some people and taken to a house that looks ordinary from the outside and inside the whole family are ravenous cannibals that take great pleasure in nailing people to the wall and then cutting them up with a chainsaw. This represents our worst nightmare — and it, too, was based on a true story. It's highly brutal and violent, and way off the charts in terms of human decency. It's another finely tuned machine that gets the job done.''