Stephen King Settles Heated “Overrated” Debate On This Horror Classic, Calls it “Admittedly, pretty great”
Twitter is filled with people going too far with their opinions on horror movies. While most of us can laugh at the ridiculousness in group chats, many others can’t fight the urge to wade in to be the loudest voice in the thread. Especially when it comes to Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Hooper probably thought TCM would be divisive for many reasons. However, I doubt he could have foreseen social media’s need to fight about whether it’s overrated or underrated in the year of our lord Akela Cooper 2023. He probably also would have never imagined Stephen King would have to intervene as the voice of reason.
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It all started when one person on Twitter took the idea that TCM might be an overrated movie personally. He fired off that anyone who believes that is ”an imbecile with no taste or even perception.” That’s when horror writer and constant viewer Stephen King stepped in to de-escalate the situation. King told the distraught fan that he was being a bit harsh but that the movie “is, admittedly, pretty great.”
Read the Twitter exchange here
Hopefully, hearing from Stephen King will help some of the most unhinged people on Twitter calm down a bit. Maybe it will remind them they can like something without needing everyone else to worship it as much as they do. Oh, right. That’s not how Twitter works.
Watch the The Texas Chain Saw Massacre trailer
If you want to revisit The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to see if you feel strongly about it being overrated or underrated, it’s streaming on AMC+, Freevee, Peacock, Plex, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, and Tubi. I will caution you to maybe hold off on tweeting your opinion, though. Many people are feeling very fragile over this one at the moment.
If you are brave enough to tweet about TCM and able to keep a level head, then you can find me at @misssharai. Let me know if you agree with Stephen King on this one.
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