The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

One of the six greatest films in the history of cinema according to Quentin Tarantino is finally hitting Polish screens for the first time—fifty years after its premiere!

A group of friends sets out for rural Texas to visit the grave of one of their grandfathers. On the way, they come across an old house that only appears to be abandoned. Inside lurks a family of murderers with a taste for human flesh.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is not only a cult horror classic that launched one of the most important franchises in the genre's history. It’s also a major cinematic milestone that, despite its low budget and lack of famous actors, changed the face of American horror. Audiences accustomed to tame, often comical horror films were confronted for the first time with true terror—a horror that brutally reflected the state of American society in the 1970s.

The original Texas Chain Saw Massacre became a hit and has been the subject of analysis for decades. The film has been described as a "great work of art" and compared to a Greek tragedy in gore form. Among its fans are Quentin Tarantino and Nicolas Winding Refn.

Now, half a century after its release, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is finally coming to Polish cinemas—in a remastered 4K version that audiences have never seen before.