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Dead Meat Podcast

53: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Dead Meat Podcast

Dead Meat Podcast

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.9 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

James and Chelsea do a deep-dive analysis of Chelsea's favorite horror film to accompany the start of the TCM Kill Count series. Sources: The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s - Robin Wood The Idea of Apocalypse in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Christopher Sharrett Cannibalistic Capitalism and Other American Delicacies: A Bataillean Taste of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Naomi Merritt Subversive Horror Cinema - Jon Towlson NBC Nightly News Dead Meat Podcast ► http://deadmeatpod.libsyn.com/website​ This video (including the awesome new intro) was edited entirely by Chelsea - I provided nothing but that sweet Dead Meat voice. Dead Meat on Social Media: Twitter ► https://twitter.com/deadmeatjames​ Instagram ► http://instagram.com/deadmeatjames​ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/deadmeatjames​ Discord ► https://discord.gg/GHazvA5​ Steam Official Group ► http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Dead...​ Chelsea Rebecca on Social Media: Twitter ► https://twitter.com/carebecc​ Instagram ► http://instagram.com/carebecc​ James A. Janisse on Social Media: Twitter ► https://twitter.com/jamesajanisse​ Instagram ► http://instagram.com/jamesajanisse​ Practical Folks (James and Chelsea's other channel): https://www.youtube.com/practicalfolks​ MUSIC!! ~~Logo~~ "U Make Me Feel" by MK2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What do you think? I think we're dead meat. Real dead meat.

0:07.0

You dead meat!

0:12.0

Go ahead and laugh you guys. If I have a final word, I'll say this.

0:15.0

You're dead meat.

0:17.0

Welcome to the Dead Meat Podcast, the extension of the YouTube channel Dead Meat. I'm James.

0:21.0

I'm Chelsea and we're a boyfriend and girlfriend and we like to get scared together. You may be,

0:26.0

let's see if this is the day this comes out. You might be wondering, what is this? This isn't a kill count.

0:31.0

It's not a kill count. Nope.

0:33.0

So, it's the first time that we're doing the podcast to be the same movie as the kill count.

0:41.0

We haven't done this before. So, this is kind of an experiment, I guess.

0:45.0

Mostly because you're doing Texas Chainsaw the series for the channel.

0:50.0

Yes, if you're watching this, when this comes out, then the Kill Count for Texas Chainsaw is out tomorrow for I.

0:55.0

Yeah.

0:56.0

And I wanted to get in on it because Texas Chainsaw is my favorite horror movie.

1:02.0

I adore it. I think it's perfect.

1:05.0

And I wanted to be able to one talk about it too and also to you wanted to be able to go on more of a deep dive of this movie.

1:15.0

Yeah, because when you watch this movie, there are so many different ways to read it from its situation.

1:21.0

Historically, with the Vietnam going on to just down to the livestock and the way meat is processed,

1:30.0

like that's a whole reading in and of itself, I can't get into that in a kill count.

1:34.0

Kill count is there for like, I get my jokes in, I get some behind the scenes stuff in.

1:39.0

Yeah, that we won't be talking about really the making of it.

1:44.0

We're not going to be talking about that at all.

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