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‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ and the Most Extreme, Disreputable Movies Ever

The Big Picture

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Is There a Place for Violence in Film?

There are not a ton of examples that i could find from the 19 fifties of gory or deeply violent films. The ideaof things being that visceral had not really struck anybody as something that they should or could be creating. I think there are violent hollywood films to this day that are funded by studios you know, the wild bunch and a clockwork orange. And when this primarily starts, i would say, in the sixties. Obviously, these kind of sixties outliers are a little bit ahead of the curve but am coming from a pretty pure place at the time.

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