Chain Reactions
Description
Japanese horror maestro Takashi Miike remembers that he went to see Chaplin’s City Lights when he was 15, but ending up watching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre instead. Today he wonders if he would even be a filmmaker if not for that twist of fate. Novelist Stephen King puts Tobe Hooper’s 1974 slashtastic classic in context with his own work and recalls his own association with the director. Australian film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas describes her long fascination with the movie and how she relates its terrors to a fire in the Outback. In Alexandre O. Philippe’s 78/52 (Festival 2017) engrossing documentary, these three and others speak to the cultural significance of Hooper’s sophomore feature and observe how this low-budget, 16mm gorefest went on to not only captivate a legion of fans but also influence and inspire succeeding generations of filmmakers. —Pam Grady
Attendee Information
This film is part of a 6-film retrospective focus on classic horror films including The Babadook (2014), Carnival of Souls (1962), The Fog (1980), They Live (1988), and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
Alexandre O. Philippe is a Swiss American documentary filmmaker who specializes in films about cinema. Among his films are The People vs. George Lucas (2010), Doc of the Dead (2014), 78/52 (Festival 2017), Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019), Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (2019), The Taking (2021), Lynch/Oz (2022), and You Can Call Me Bill (2023).
Film Details
LanguageEnglish, Japanese
Year2024
Runtime103
CountryUSA
DirectorAlexandre O. Philippe
ProducerKerry Deignan Roy
Executive ProducerBadie Ali, Hamza Ali, Pat Cassidy, Ian Henkel, Kim Henkel
EditorDavid Lawrence
CinematographerRobert Muratore
Closed CaptionsClosed Captions are not currently confirmed for this film
Audio DescriptionAudio Descriptions are not currently confirmed for this film
American Sign Language (ASL) InterpretationAmerican Sign Language Interpretation is not currently scheduled for this film
