Is there anything more terrifying than a psychotic family of cannibals? Possibly the answer to that is yes, if one of them is weilding a chainsaw and wearing a mask made from human flesh. Welcome to middle America and the terrifying world of depraved backwater poverty. No matter how many remakes, reboots and ruined versions of this film are made, the original will always be the most horrific version of them all. TJ
En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...