Five artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, including Stephen King and Takashi Miike, talk about the impact that Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre had on them.
The documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe is at the forefront of a new generation of cinephiles who are rethinking the approach to and perception of movie classics and their impact on their time and their audience. Chain Reactions is therefore anything but a simple collection of declarations of love for Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece. Rather, it is a set of fascinating accounts of how this cult film influenced the worldview of the various individuals concerned.

USA – 2024 – 1h42 – in English and Japanese subtitled in French – General audiences, with parental guidance

Director: Alexandre O. Philippe

Producer: Kerry Deignan Roy

Writers: Alexandre O. Philippe

Conversations with: Stephen King, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and others