Is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre scary?

Mildly — The Texas Chainsaw Massacre works more through dread than through overt scares. As a survival film, it scored 5.0/10 for fear, 7.5/10 for atmosphere, and 6.0/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

How many jump scares are in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has 16 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is tagged as survival, slasher, serial killer on Watch Darkly. The film's page lists similar horror films selected by curated scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2003 · R · 1h 38m

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.

Plot summary via TMDB

Curator Score

6.0

Overall

Based on 1 curator rating

Leans into gore and atmosphere.

Jump scares

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has 16 jump scares. Compare counts

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6.0Overall

Fear5.0

Gore7.6

Atmosphere7.5

Genres

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Details

Budget$9.5M

Box office$107.4M

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Starring

Jessica Biel as Erin Hardesty · Jonathan Tucker as Morgan · Andrew Bryniarski as Thomas Hewitt (Leatherface) · Erica Leerhsen as Pepper · Eric Balfour as Kemper · Mike Vogel as Andy · R. Lee Ermey as Sheriff Hoyt · David Dorfman as Jedidiah

Production

Focus Features, New Line Cinema, Next Entertainment, Platinum Dunes, Radar Pictures

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