Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 1974 American horror film about a group of young people terrorized by a family of cannibals in rural Texas, most memorably Leatherface, who wields a chainsaw and wears masks of human skin.

The film's raw, documentary-like style and relentless tension made it influential in horror cinema.

The title now refers broadly to the franchise of sequels and remakes it spawned, and appears in figurative use for any scene of brutal chaos: The meeting devolved into a Texas Chainsaw Massacre.