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Stuff You Should Know

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: Masterpiece

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

There aren’t too many independent horror movies that make the British Film Institute’s 250 Best Films Ever Made list – AND – make an appearance in the teen comedy Summer School. That makes sense because there’s no other movie quite like The TCSM.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:05.6

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:15.2

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too.

0:20.1

And this is our episode right before our Halloween episode.

0:24.4

You're on stuff you should know.

0:26.9

Yeah, big COA here, obviously.

0:32.6

Yeah.

0:33.0

I mean, hopefully parents aren't going to click on this if their young children are in the car,

0:37.6

because it'll probably be Texas chainsaw mask or something or other in the title.

0:43.1

Yeah, it's not going to be like how ponies work.

0:47.3

Right.

0:48.1

I don't want to trick anybody.

0:49.9

Yeah, so COA about that, obviously, it's going to have some pretty gruesome material in it. But also, because we're going to be talking a lot about this movie and we're going to go over the plot and everything. So if it's kind of a spoiler situation where you don't want to hear about it and you haven't seen it somehow, then tune out. But some people like to know what happens before they go into a horror movie, you know? Yes, but that's a great, that's a great, uh, spoiler alert.

1:13.5

If you haven't seen it, go watch it.

1:17.3

It, like, people use the word masterpiece about this movie a lot.

1:21.8

And like, not just fans of the film, like sickos, like critics, like academics who teach film appreciation.

1:31.3

Like, it is a really, really good movie, whether you like horror movies or not.

1:37.8

Because the key to this is, if you get scared at horror movies, approach it like it's a dark comedy. And it will make

1:45.7

sense to use a dark comedy. And you will probably laugh out loud in a couple of parts. So it can

1:50.2

be taken both ways and sometimes in some parts, both ways at the same time. Yeah, see, that,

1:57.4

I've never understood that take because I don't see any dark comedy that notions about it whatsoever.

2:04.7

I think it's, I think it's one of the most terrifying movies I've ever seen, if not the most terrifying.

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