The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - 3 Disc Limited Edition

[BladeRunner2007]

Video:
1080p24 Full HD (1,78:1) - Digitally Remastered

Audio:
English - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stero and 2.0 Mono

German - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround
Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Special Features:
Commentary by Actors und Art Director
Commentary by Hooper, Pearl und Hansen
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (72:54 Min.)
Flesh Wounds: Seven Stories of the Saw (71:42 Min.)
A Tour of the TCSM House with Gunnar Hansen (8:03 Min.)
Off the hook mit Teri McMinn (17:02 Min.)
Deleted Scenes and Outtakes (25:24 Min.)
Blooper Reel (2:23 Min.)
Outtakes from "The Shocking Truth" (7:34 Min.)
Dr. W.E. Barnes presents "Making Grandpa" (Gallery)
Still Gallery
Trailer 1 (1:43 Min.)
Trailer 2 (1:30 Min.)
TV Spot 1 (0:34 Min.)
TV Spot 2 (0:35 Min.)
TV Spot 3 (0:33 Min.)
Radio Spot 1 (0:32 Min.)
Radio Spot 2 (0:32 Min.)

Limited to 5.000 copies! Digipak!

Disc 1: Film on Blu-ray Disc
Disc 2: Film on DVD
Disc 3: Special Features

[LordCrumb]

wow I love that artwork... extras appear the same as the US at first glance. but that artwork is worth the purchase alone.

where can we get it?

[USiT]

I don't like the typeo on the cover

[Funktion]

This release is a waste of money (and discs). The UK release has all these special features and more (it has some lengthy bonus interviews not included in neither the US or this release) on a single BD disc, and it's quite cheap.

This release is probably using a single layer disc, why else did they bump the extras to a separate DVD?

[LordCrumb]

Originally Posted by USiT

I don't like the typeo on the cover

are you refering to the word 'Chainsaw' not being 'Chain Saw'?

Originally Posted by Funktion

This release is a waste of money (and discs). The UK release has all these special features and more (it has some lengthy bonus interviews not included in neither the US or this release) on a single BD disc, and it's quite cheap.

This release is probably using a single layer disc, why else did they bump the extras to a separate DVD?

What are the extras on the UK disc?

[Funktion]

Originally Posted by KaiGusto

What are the extras on the UK disc?

-Commentary with director Tobe Hooper, cinematographer Daniel Pearl and actor Gunnar Hansen
-Commentary with actors Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Allen Danziger and art director Robert A. Burns
-'Off The Hook' - an interview with Teri McMinn
-Interview with Production Manager Ron Bozman
-'The Shocking Truth' documentary
-A tour of the TCSM house with Gunnar Hansen
-'Shocking Truth' outtakes
-'Flesh Wounds' documentary
-Interview with director Tobe Hooper
-Interview with writer Kim Henkel
-Outtakes and deleted scenes
-Trailers, TV and radio spots
-Bloopers
-Stills gallery

Or to make it simple, everything from this German release (same as the US release) + "Interview with director Tobe Hooper" + "Interview with writer Kim Henkel" + "Interview with Production Manager Ron Bozman". The 3 interviews amount to over 40 minutes.

[LordCrumb]

Cool, thanks.

[USiT]

Originally Posted by KaiGusto

are you refering to the word 'Chainsaw' not being 'Chain Saw'?

Yes... not a big deal but i dont like it when they write it "chainsaw" it feals like the remake of the movie that had that spelling

[Ceaucescu]

Is the blu-ray disc region locked?

[jw]

http://de.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Tex...Blu-ray/10805/

I compiled it off the information in this thread. Austria isnt in DB if thats where its really from, Thread title said Germany so I used that before reading whole thread

Covers need updated so scans would be great

[LordCrumb]

[Evil666]

Does anybody know if there is a difference in picture quality between these two releases? I am wondering if I should get the 2022 3 disc release or just settle having the 2016 release. I was not sure if the picture quality is much of a difference between the two. Thanks.


The 2016 release:

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The 2022 release:

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[Muyfa666]

Originally Posted by Evil666

Does anybody know if there is a difference in picture quality between these two releases? I am wondering if I should get the 2022 3 disc release or just settle having the 2016 release. I was not sure if the picture quality is much of a difference between the two. Thanks.


The 2016 release:

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The 2022 release:

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The 2016 release does not have HDR.

PQ from all the recent BD's and UHD's are more or less similar, as the source material is rather limited to begin with.

Grain structure is said to be better on all the UHD releases, but it's most likely a very slight improvement.

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=5083&d2=11095&c=319

This is a comparison between the Second Sight BD and the Turbine UHD 2016.

[Metro1962]

The Original Texas Chain Saw Massacre ranks as one of my all time worse movies ever released along with the Original Hills Have Eyes.......two massive piles of poo imo.

[Muyfa666]

Originally Posted by Metro1962

The Original Texas Chain Saw Massacre ranks as one of my all time worse movies ever released along with the Original Hills Have Eyes.......two massive piles of poo imo.

I like the movie for what it represents and I like the low budget horror, but yea, it's no Halloween so to speak.

My favorite is actually part 2.

[theimpcaiman]

I saw that this film has multiple different covers. Looking at them, all of them say Region B except one.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-T...lu-ray/251970/

This particular one 2 users claim the Blu-Ray with the film is Region free. Cover looks ugly.


https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-T...lu-ray/316260/

This one I am interested in comes from the exact same company and is actually a steelbook variant cover, however it says it is Region B locked.

I contacted the company on both and they said they are Region B locked. My questions are if they are all from the same company, are they locked Region B or are they Region Free and if the 1st one is Region Free wouldn't they all be that way not just that one variant cover?

Does anyone have the 2nd cover which is a replica of the original artwork and can confirm or deny that the Blu-Ray with the film is Region Free or it is locked? If that is the case why wouldn't the others be the same? I am looking for this film that has both a 4K and Blu-Ray and not wanting to spend all that money on a stupid chainsaw edition I'll end up throwing away and keeping just the film and spending over $130 to get just a film is ridiculous. Thanks for any help.

[Axel X]

Originally Posted by theimpcaiman

I saw that this film has multiple different covers. Looking at them, all of them say Region B except one.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-T...lu-ray/251970/

This particular one 2 users claim the Blu-Ray with the film is Region free. Cover looks ugly.


https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-T...lu-ray/316260/

This one I am interested in comes from the exact same company and is actually a steelbook variant cover, however it says it is Region B locked.

I contacted the company on both and they said they are Region B locked. My questions are if they are all from the same company, are they locked Region B or are they Region Free and if the 1st one is Region Free wouldn't they all be that way not just that one variant cover?

Does anyone have the 2nd cover which is a replica of the original artwork and can confirm or deny that the Blu-Ray with the film is Region Free or it is locked? If that is the case why wouldn't the others be the same? I am looking for this film that has both a 4K and Blu-Ray and not wanting to spend all that money on a stupid chainsaw edition I'll end up throwing away and keeping just the film and spending over $130 to get just a film is ridiculous. Thanks for any help.

Just checked the discs of the 2022 3-Disc release on my Pioneer BDP-450 with CFW

[Show spoiler]In the console modding scene many call it Cracked FirmWare, while it actually stands for Custom FirmWare to the best of my knowledge, but in my case it stands for Chinese FirmWare

The disc with the film plays fine on my Pioneer set to region A (This is a dedicated region A or C player, but I don't remember having any region C discs.)
However playing the Bonus disc resulted in the following image:


So its the same as rallymonkey said for the 2019 release.