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Neoclassical Ideals versus “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” The gory remake of 1970’s camp classic, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is almost a good example of neoclassical ideals. However, where the movie fails to meet those ideals, it fails big. The most prevalent: no violence on stage. Now you may not have seen the new or the old version, but the title sums up the story very well, except that it is not a massacre, the attractive twenty-somethings die one by one. In the first scene, four friends have already picked up a hitch hiker and are merrily on their way to a Lynnard Skynnard concert when they see a girl walking by the side of the road mumbling to herself, unaware of the world around her. To keep the plot moving, they decide to pick her up and help her. After a few minutes in the van, the girl pulls a gun out of a feminine hiding place that I’m still not sure is possible to keep a gun, and shoots herself. The camera angle uses this tragedy every chance it gets throughout the rest of the movie. The group tries to call the sheriff to explain what happened and run into redneck after frightening redneck, until finally Leatherface claims his first victim. Wondering where her boyfriend went, one of the girls and a