Episode 62: Remake Reframe - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973) & (2003)
This episode was recorded on July 17, 2025 and posted on August 23, 2025.
Content Warning: Light vulgarity.
Introduction
- Welcome to No Bodies Episode 62
- Introductions to your Ghosts Hosts with the Most - Lonely of Lonely Horror Club and Projectile Varmint aka Suzie
- Welcome back to Remake Reframe - our series pitting horror films and their remakes against one another
- Today's Topic: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Remake Reframe
- The legacy of TCM and making of the original film
- Criteria for the Original Film
- Did this film need a remake?
- Has the film aged well?
- One thing from the original that is important to keep in a remake
- One thing from the original that is important to change in a remake
- Criteria for the Remake
- How true was the remake to the original, for better or worse?
- What was kept the same? What was changed?
- Was the remake successful?
Film Discussion
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Closing Thoughts
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