watching the texas chainsaw massacre for the first time
just the first ten minutes have an aesthetic and directing strength that reaches the brutal. there's a confidence in everything, from the acting to the cinematography to the credit sequence, that just sledgehammers you in the face and never stops
it's always fascinating to see if you can figure out why something became a classic and doubly so when the answer is "because it's just so fucking good"
was curious to see if this movie's fame was due to its absolute nastiness and gore (and by jove this is one nasty movie), but damn there's some immense artistic confidence at work here