The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five

youths, in particular Sally Hartisty and her invalid brother Franklin. It is all the more tragic

and that they were young, but have they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected,

nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day.

For them an idealic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare. The events of that day were to

lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the Yannals of American history.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Welcome to Revolutionary Left Radio. All right, I apologize, I had to do that.

I am your host Anne Comrade, Bred O'Shea, and today we are going to do something new for the podcast.

We are going to be doing a Marxist film analysis of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre as a

little Halloween special for you. If you guys like this episode and you want us to do more film

analysis episodes, let us know on Twitter and Facebook. This is totally unique for us, but we would

love to do this more in the future of people. Want to hear it. So today we have three guests.

We have Phil from our Cuba episode. How's it going? We have Seth from our Maoism episode.

We have Taylor from our first episode ever. Yippee Kai Yay, mother fuckers.

So let's do this. This is going to be fun. I'm excited. We all watched it. I watched it separately

from these three. This is the first time we're sitting down and talking about it. I think we're

all going to bring something new and different to this analysis. First and foremost, before we get into

the plot and the analysis, I do want to point out that leatherface, the iconic villain of this film,

is based on the real serial killer, slash grave robber Ed Geen, who was active in Wisconsin in the

40s and 50s. He actually only killed two people, but he was an notorious grave robber. He would go

dig up corpses and cut off parts of their bodies, save them, use them for his own purposes.

So Ed Geen was actually a precursor to a lot of cultural horror tropes and villains from

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