The anxieties of the Vietnamese war inside the states as well as in Vietnam is well represented in the Texan horror series- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Numerous poets have penned down the futility of war and the helplessness of man in the face of war.
Repository of the inhumanity, the bloodshed and the loss of human rights in the Vietnamese war, the comic strip and the movie series of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre have brought the focus on the crisis of the situation that had long been forgotten.
The movies and the comic strips were a medium to send a word of awe-inspiring history to the world, which is soon to be washed off from the chapters of history.
The film was originally made by Tobe Hooper in the year 1974 and was an inspiration from Ed Gein's fetishistic explorations. The story of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre relates to five young Texans who went on a drive on a Sunday, never to return back. The horror begins when all of them are stalled in a farmhouse at the wrong time. They are slaughtered mercilessly by a Leatherfaced psychopath, the psychopath being the repository of the anxiety of the age and the era. He is an anti-socialist in another sense. The film conforms to the convention that life is futile, even in the face of heroism and courage. Numerous poets like Tennyson and Milton have penned down the futility of life in the face of war and Tobe Hooper has added a 3Dimage to it.
Tobe Hooper in his successive comic and movie series of Texas Chain Saw Massacre retained the same satire and the anxiety in Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2. The story related to a Texas ranger who ventured out to take revenge for the death of his invalid brother. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre seems to be more of a psychological movie series, based on the incidents in reality.
