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Leatherface and Me- Growing Up With (and Without) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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I saw The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at the cinema the other day. It's been a long road, but I feel like I've had my own personal journey with this horror masterpiece. After years of not being able to view the film, it grew in my mind to almost mythic proportions. When I finally got …

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Pamela Voorhees, The Pregnant Man and The Deep Fried Rat: The Pre-Video Years of a Cult Movie Loving Crackpot

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I often think about my love of cinema, where it began and the influences on it, both film-based and what was going on around me. I was born in February 1975. My arrival into the world coincides with the day on which Stephen Murphy, the BBFC's secretary, first saw a new independent film called The …

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