While Steven King is universally loved when it comes to horror, his true stories tend to be very specific. Indeed, King reviews certain topics and scenarios for horror over and over, clearly holding his personal interests as an author. Many have probably noticed that King has written more stories about alcoholic authors struggling to keep their lives together. This makes sense to read King's personal stories about cocaine addiction, a problem that you have tackled during the 1980s. Many of King's stories, from "body" On "it" The "Dreamcatcher" is based on his personal nostalgia for the 1950s, and a close group of boyfriends of boys he had as a boy.

King also often writes about the dangers of religious zeal and the horrors of living with offensive parental figures. He often writes about killers or trucks because he has a personal fear of car accidents. However, sometimes, King only pays tribute to the EC comics of his youth by just saying fun, malicious, ironic monster stories. Sometimes, it seems, it's just fun to struggle and cripple some undoubted protagonists by feeding them in Ast East or Mangal Mangal Mangal.

However, it is rare that the king will be obtained as a cruel as a horror -remake of Tobe Houper in 1974 "The Texas Chain Massacre". It's a movie she loves, as he said A recent interview with Variety. "The Texas Chain Massacre" is not for alcoholism, irony or nostalgia; It is a dark story of meat, visca, skin and bone. However, the stories of the violent king can be, it carries a relevant degree of author's elegance of his stories, painting suburban homes, working -class villages or rural landscapes as gaps, haunted places (King rarely writes about the rich). Unlike the "Texas Chain Pila" massacre, unlike the alive abut. There are times when it feels like a legitimate movie about SMAF.

Of course, saying that "the chain massacre in Texas" scares you is the usual enough feeling. Tobe Houper somehow made a gloomy film on Grindhouse for centuries, shooting pictures so unpolluted and disgusting that they colored the cinema world for generations. The film was made for only $ 140,000, but ended with nearly $ 31 million at the box office. Since then there have been eight consecutive filmsIncluding extensions, prophecies and remake, which makes regular presence during popular culture.

So, King's feelings may not be unique, but they are honest. He admitted that he missed the "Pila Massacre in Texas", when it was first released in 1974, it was not caught up until 1982, when it was already celebrated and raised three children. King remembers that he saw him when he was alone in the theater, saying, "That's when the film really tends to work on you, to get his cold little fingers under your skin." "The massacre," he said, looked enough amateur to feel like a real movie. After all, Huper's film looks like it is made of cannibals we are witnessing. And watching an old, 35mm scratched print just made it frightening. As King said:

"There was this kind of washed look in the 70s to love a better term. You can say that this print has been around it for some time, and it's better for it, because it just looks real. It works. It works because they don't have article about it. There are no characters, they have no characters. Texas.

The "massacre" regularly turns Lists of the worst movies of all time. It is comforting to hear that the master of horror was just as frightened by Leatherface as the rest of us. He also discusses the film in length in Alexandre O.'s documentary. Philip, "Chain Reactions" on the influence of the film on some of the greatest horror minds.