
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
1974 · MovieFive friends on a road trip through rural Texas stop at a farmhouse that seems abandoned. It isn't.
Survival horror strands its characters with limited resources against a killer, a creature or the elements, and asks how far they'll go to make it out. Strip everything away and horror becomes very simple. Stay alive. Curated survival horror puts characters in situations where that's the only objective, and then makes it nearly impossible. The genre is a stress test. The best entries here pass it.

Five friends on a road trip through rural Texas stop at a farmhouse that seems abandoned. It isn't.

Five friends driving to a music festival pick up a traumatized hitchhiker and follow the situation into territory they should have driven past.

A Norwegian research team uncovers something in the Antarctic ice. The prequel explains what happened at the camp discovered at the start of the 1982 film.

Five teens sneak off to an abandoned island for a carefree camping trip. Nobody in town would tell them why the island's been empty this long.

Becca and Tyler travel alone to their maternal grandparents' rural Pennsylvania home and film their visit for a documentary about the family estrangement.

Mina's car breaks down at the edge of a vast, uncharted forest in the west of Ireland. She ends up sheltering with three strangers in a room with one glass wall, and every night the creatures that live in the woods come to watch. The rules of the place keep them from leaving.

Asia Reaves takes a housekeeping job at The Virgil, a grand New York apartment building, and learns on her first night that the residents need a sacrifice. They picked the wrong woman.

A widower inherits his eccentric uncle's glass estate, which turns out to be a machine powered by twelve trapped ghosts. Getting out requires solving it.

Cooper Adams, a devoted dad who is secretly a serial killer, takes his teenage daughter to her favorite pop star's concert and discovers the event has been organized specifically around him.

David and Amy Fox check into a remote motel and find a stack of tapes that contain footage of previous guests being murdered in the same room.

Gemma and Tom follow an estate agent to a development of identical houses and can't find their way back out. The house they can't leave contains a child that isn't theirs.

A silent drifter stuck in a small Nevada town agrees to scrub a shuttered family fun center overnight in exchange for car repairs. When the animatronic mascots come for him, he fights them without ever breaking his shift.

Three backpackers get stranded in the Australian outback and accept help from a local who knows the area very well.

A former UN investigator is pulled back into service to trace the origin of a zombie outbreak spreading faster than any model predicted.

Medical student Chris Flynn takes a detour through the West Virginia mountains and crashes into a car full of friends. Stranded together, they find out they're not alone in the woods.

The wrong turn territory has more family members and the sequel makes clear immediately that it intends to go further than the original.

A prison transport convoy is attacked in the West Virginia woods and the surviving guards and inmates have to work together against something living in the woods.

A women's soccer team survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. What they do to stay alive is something they've spent twenty-five years trying not to think about.

Columbus wakes up in a zombie apocalypse and joins a group of survivors who have developed very specific rules for staying alive.
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