“A Whole Family of Draculas:” Subverting Gothic Horror in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

The 1970s saw the end of the reign of Hammer horror. That studio had kicked off its long-running success in 1957 with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein, which was followed the next year with Horror of Dracula. The studio built itself on updating classic monsters and stories, largely the...