The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) van (Study 1b)

Whose really intruding?
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When I think of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), I think of the teenagers as the villians of the story. Tobe Hooper sets them up in low camera angles as they approach the house, and the young villians are silhoutted against the burning, Texas sun. As symbols of the future, these teenagers are also metaphors for the technology that has put the cannibal family out of work.

As the young, suppossed heroes travel in a van, the van becomes a visual metaphor of cattle being led to the slaughter, but if we wanted to sync up with my thesis, we could say that they are even more of a villianous crew because they are the ones in the horror van.