4.9 Score

2003 • 1h 38min • R • Horror

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"What you know about fear...doesn't even come close."

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

IMDb 6.2

RT 37%

MC 38

Director

Marcus Nispel

Writers

Tobe Hooper

Kim Henkel

Scott Kosar

Composer

Steve Jablonsky

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Jessica Biel

Erin Hardesty

Jonathan Tucker

Morgan

Andrew Bryniarski

Thomas Hewitt (Leatherface)

Erica Leerhsen

Pepper

Eric Balfour

Kemper

Mike Vogel

Andy

R. Lee Ermey

Sheriff Hoyt

David Dorfman

Jedidiah

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