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I have always loved The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). The film was very well directed and I thought the Leatherface of that film was scarier in terms of appearance than all future variations of him in the future. Additionally, some of the performances may have been forgettable, except for Marilyn Burns and definitely the entire Sawyer family. It almost seemed as if they were filming a real homicidal family in Texas. Also, I thought the opening scene taking photographs of those skeltons was particularly original and even creepy. Plus, I also thought it was interesting that the film had the title it did, but yet there was no sex and most of the violence was implied, there was even very little (fake) blood. In my opinion, the film has held up very well and I particularly enjoy it. On the other hand, Cannibal Holocaust (1980) is a different story. I rented that film from Netflix and it was one of the only horror movies that I nearly could not finish (although I forced myself to finish it). Don't get me wrong I have been sickened by a number of other horror films and have avoided ones I thought would be just too distrbing (suchh as the Human Centipede), but this is the first and only that I started and actually considered stopping. To this today that movies still haunts me. It may have created the "found footage" film and had interesting questions on "civilization", but it is one horror movie I will never watch again.
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