The landmark horror film\u00a0The Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u00a0is re-releasing in cinemas.\u00a0Dark Sky Films\u00a0and\u00a0Fathom Events\u00a0are celebrating\u00a0Texas Chain Saw Day\u00a0with a special\u00a04K restoration\u00a0of Tobe Hooper\u2019s\u00a01974 classic.<\/p>\n
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K theatrical re-release<\/p>\n
This one-night-only 4K re-release falls on the very date The Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u2019s fictional nightmare takes place, August 18. Starting July 21, fans can get tickets through online vendors and participating theater box offices.<\/p>\n
The partners launched this ritual after witnessing an overwhelming surge of demand during last year\u2019s screening. \u201cLast year\u2019s response exceeded our expectations and proved that audiences still want to experience THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE the way it was meant to be seen \u2014 together, on the big screen,\u201d said Justin DiPietro, Executive Vice President of MPI and Dark Sky Films.<\/p>\n
Ray Nutt, CEO of Fathom Entertainment, echoed that sentiment, calling the day a capture of everything special about moviegoing. He described the partnership as a welcome to the Chain Saw faithful for another unforgettable celebration of a genre titan (via\u00a0Bloody Disgusting<\/a>).<\/p>\n Beyond the theatrical event, this victory lap comes with more institutional prestige. The Library of Congress recently selected The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for preservation in the National Film Registry. The honor is reserved for works of enduring cultural, historic, or aesthetic importance.<\/p>\n Of course, the film\u2019s legacy has always spoken for itself. Shot on a razor-thin budget under $140,000, the 1974 independent juggernaut brutalized box office forecasts by pulling in more than $30 million. Its plot strands five young travelers on a doomed rural Texas trip, where a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibal clan pick them apart. Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Allen Danziger, William Vail, Teri McMinn, Gunnar Hansen, Edwin Neal, and Jim Siedow\u00a0starred in the film<\/a>.<\/p>\n Critics initially met the film with confusion, yet its DNA now courses through the entire slasher genre. The hulking masked figure, the power tool as a weapon, and the desperate final girl all trace back to Hooper\u2019s gritty vision. Looking ahead, A24 tapped Obsession filmmaker\u00a0Curry Barker<\/a>\u00a0to helm a new reimagining.<\/p>\n The post Texas Chain Saw Massacre Returns to Theaters in 4K This Summer<\/a> appeared first on ComingSoon.net – Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The landmark horror film\u00a0The Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u00a0is re-releasing in cinemas.\u00a0Dark Sky Films\u00a0and\u00a0Fathom Events\u00a0are celebrating\u00a0Texas Chain Saw Day\u00a0with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124851,27,35435,29,28,125142],"class_list":["post-351205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dark-sky-films","tag-texas","tag-texas-chain-saw-massacre","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-theatrical-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}