Cate -reactions trailer: Stephen King and Takashi Miike celebrate the brutal genius of the Texas Chainsaw massacre

Few horror films have left deep scars like Tobe Hooper’S The Texas chain saw the massacre. That film raised my young brain when I saw him for the first time as a child.

Now, almost fifty years later, a new documentary by the director Alexandre O. Philippe He is immersing himself in the cultural carnage created by the film. The first trailer for Chain reactions It has arrived and is full of talent that they know the horror better, including Stephen King, Takashi Miike, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusamaand scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.

“Each frame has something unnerving,” says Oswalt in the trailer, perfectly summarizing the reason why the 1974 Hooper film still makes the public forget. The Texas chain saw the massacre It may have inspired countless sequels, remakes and copious, but the original remains a singular vision because it is raw, disturbing and disturbingly real.

Philippe, known for its documentaries in depth like 78:52 AND Memory: Alien’s originsstructures Chain reactions about five fans of fans of Texas Chain SawExploring how the film filtered itself in their lives and careers.

Icon Horror King, Miike’s cult director (Audition, ichi the killer), Kusama (Jennifer’s body) and Heller-Nicholas all analyze the nightmare with the equal parts of admiration and discomfort.

“I consider him a role -playing model,” recalls Miike of his first vision at the age of 15, explaining how the film sculpted the journey for his cinematographic journey.

While the speeches continue on who could guide the next restart of The Texas chain saw the massacre, Chain reactions It makes a strong case that Hooper’s original cannot be replicated.

You can copy the images, the chainsaw, the masks, the barbecue along the way, but the dirty plot and the Vérité style that made the film feel like a waking nightmare is something that a lightning has struck only once.

As the documentary shows, Texas Chain Saw does not scare you; Striscia under the skin, makes you feel the smell of rot and convinces you that the horror on the screen could actually happen.

Chain reactions They will take the road in cinemas starting from September 19th in New York and Los Angeles before expanding nationally on September 26th.

Whether you are a longtime fan or someone who is about to discover Leatherface for the first time, this looks like an essential watch and the perfect excuse to revisit Hooper’s masterpiece again.