Apologies for the delay in this week's episode, Mike was off dealing with a small matter.
This week, we start our journey out of the opening credits and towards the narrative proper. We discuss Hooper's foreshadowing with the angry and unhelpful Sun bearing down on our travelers, and the appearance of roadkill. Rebecca makes comparisons to the use of the solar flares here to Hitchcock's use of spirals in Vertigo. Mike discusses the cultural shifts and social upheaval that are reflected throughout Chain Saw. all this and so much more as we travel down the dusty backwater roads of Texas.
In our latest installment, Mike and Rebecca continue our discussion of the grotesque corpse perched and posed atop the monument. Plus, the ominous newscast reveals the chaotic world that has devolved into anarchy. We get our first allusions to Watergate as a newscaster discusses the convening of a grand jury while elsewhere crime and terror run rampant. In what can only be described as the timeliest of coincidences, the broadcast concludes with the locals, angry and afraid as their loved ones' eternal slumber has been disturbed, begin pointing fingers at unknown and invisible "outsiders" for these horrid crimes.
Rebecca and Mike continue their van ride down the dusty roads of backwater Texas. This segment begins at 1 minute and 15 seconds and concludes at 2 minute and 29 seconds and we start with a black screen and the sound of digging before a camera flash exposes some macabre discoveries and we end with a somewhat cheesy looking corpse baking in the sun as a radio declares there has been some ‘grave robbing’ in Texas.
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In our inaugural episode hosts Rebecca and Mike discuss the brilliance of the opening crawl and how it crafts a mood of pure dread and anticipation for what is to come. Plus, "was the news always so bad?": how the radio broadcast delivers a litany of disasters of a world gone mad. All this and so much more.
In this sneak peek at the Off the Hook podcast, your hosts Mike and Rebecca introduce themselves and tell you why they came up with the insane idea to carve up The Texas Chain Saw Massacre into seventy four second chunks. We go into our own personal history and love for this movie and the relationship we each have with it.
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Coming soon to a slaughterhouse near you, "Off the Hook, A Texas Chain Saw Massacre Podcast." Each episode your hosts Rebecca MacCallum (Talking Hitchcock) and Mike Snoonian (Pod and the Pendulum) will breakdown seventy four seconds of Tobe Hooper's horror masterpiece. Check out this tasty morsel in our new trailer.