The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is thought to be one of, if not the scariest movie ever to be made. It is inspired by a true story of 5 friends on there way home from a road trip to Mexico which takes a wrong turn and has them running for there lives from a masked maniac with a chainsaw, and ever source for help that they go to run to are all connected back to this crazy man. I will discuss four structural elements in my critical analysis of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
On August 18, 1973 Erin, Morgan, Kemper, Andy, and Pepper are a bunch of friends coming home from a trip from Mexico trying t o make it in time for a concert that they had bought for. On there way they find a young woman walking in the street with a terrified look on her face. They decide they can't leave the young woman walking in the street like that so they decide to pick her up and drive her to help. As they are driving the girl be comes more terrified from the fact that they are taking her back to where she was escaping from which was Travis County, Texas. She begins to panic and tells all the of them that everyone's dead and that they are driving the wrong way. She screams at Kemper to turn around but he wouldn't listen to her. When the woman realizes this she decides she has no choice but to kill her self. So She pulls a gun out of her crotch and says repeatedly "He's a bad man a really bad man."" And they tells the group "Your all gonna die."" Then she puts to her mouth and blows her brains cool out of her head. And that's when the group realizes they should have never picked up this hitchhiker. .
The first 2 structural elements I will use are conflict and Characterization. Kemper is a young man about 25 years old and is from Arizona. He and girlfriend Erin have been dating and living together for 3 years. He is the driver of the van and is basically holding the responsibility of everyone with him including his girlfriend.