Anyway you look at it, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a
brutal, grotesque and horrifying movie. It
is also funny. Well, sort of. In a movie filled with psychotic torturers,
chainsaws and meat hooks, director Tobe Hopper finds a way to shed some humor
onto this densely laughless circumstance. The
humor of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre comes in the form of satire. It is
subtle, neatly positioned under what I would argue to be the most horrific scene
in the entire movie. Given its context, the
terror erupting out this scene overwhelms anything “funny” about what is going
on. But it is still there.
The “funny” scene in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre comes in
the movie after Sally has been captured, tied up to a chair made of human bones
and seated at the table. When she awakes
to find herself here, she gives out a blood-curling scream. There’s clearly nothing funny for her. But still, in a sick way, this is also the
funniest and probably only funny part of the movie. Let me explain using this picture-
