Film Project Genre Research- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre- Opens with a narrator talking about the film and giving slight information on the story. It then states the date "August 18, 1973", which creates the setting. Goes to black screen with a sound bridge of someone weal-ding a knife or machete cutting something. It continues to flash onto what seems like completely mutilated corpse. It then goes to black again opening up to a disfigured body without its skin on its face standing like a scare crow in a cemetery. It starts with a close up on what used to be a face and pulls out to a wide shot of the body with sound of a police report on the incident. After all that there are no job titles presented within the opening scene just merely the stating the date. The films budget was 140,000 dollars and had a box office of 30.9 million dollars, giving it a grand total profit of 30,760,000 dollars. The movie won the "Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Horror/Thriller.