
It has a wild, feral energy that I had never seen before, with none of the cultural Band-Aids that soften things. In Jason Zinoman’s excellent 2012 book Shock Value, Craven ( The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street) said this about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre : “ looked like someone stole a camera and started killing people. If you can scare the shit out of horror master Wes Craven, you’re clearly doing something right.
