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1	!! The original:
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3	* CaptainObviousReveal: Vance being the killer is incredibly obvious from the get-go due to his build and rather recognizable eyes.
4	* HilariousInHindsight: A fair haired, studious and all around good girl named [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} Laurie]] is the FinalGirl.
5	* JerkassWoobie: Vance may be a batshit crazy SerialKiller with ridiculous sensibilities, but as you get the sense of how deep his sense of loss is, it's hard to not feel sorry for him.
6	* MoralEventHorizon: Kent killing Joey by setting him on fire, something he takes obvious sadistic pleasure in doing.
7	* NightmareFuel:
8	** The murders, especially due to the basic, almost nonchalant way they're filmed.
9	** When Vance first dons his ski mask, it's slightly askew, giving this weird UnintentionalUncannyValley effect, plus there's Laurie's completely off the top of her head description of the afterlife, essentially an AndIMustScream scenario.
10	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Laurie killing Kent with the scissors occurs completely offscreen.
11	* SignatureScene: The nail gun murder.
12	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewfqerA6hD8 This video review]] by [=YouTuber=] [=lampyman101=] suggests that the film could've made for a genuinely good psychological drama if it had focused more on story and characterization and less on the sleaze.
13	* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Cameron Mitchell portrays Vance as if he's in an OscarBait character drama rather than a sleazy exploitation flick. As such, he manages to make the character somewhat sympathetic despite his horrendous actions, something which is no easy task.
14	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Seemingly promiscuous women are violently murdered with extremely phallic makeshift weaponry. In order, they're drilled, hammered, screwed and nailed.
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16	!! The remake:
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18	* AssPull: The killer turning out to be a somewhat poorly explained supernatural monstrosity.
19	* HilariousInHindsight: The original was a cash-in on the original ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'', which Creator/TobeHooper, director of this film, also directed.
20	* {{Squick}}: Nell finds a trinket in the wall filled with bloody teeth, which looked like they were wrenched out.
21	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The film is very confused about what it wants to be.
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