This never really seems like a proper documentary but is in actuality just a bunch of interviews edited together with the actors who played the cannibalistic, psychopathic family in the original TCM. It's a really low-budget looking thing with the guys just sitting around and bullshitting for about an hour. It was probably way more interesting to people back when it came out then it is now since most hardcore horror fanatics have probably seen at least a few of these people at one of the ten-thousand horror conventions that take place every year. There's only so many times you can hear someone tell the same stories before it becomes tedious. That being said though this does give anyone who might not know everything about this film a good look behind the curtain at what it was like to shoot in a house full of rotting meat in the peak of a Texas summer. Doesn't look like much fun really but what they created will live on forever(or until we all blow ourselves up anyway) so I guess it was worth it for that. This is probably kind of obsolete now since there are better-made actual documentaries on a few of the releases this movie has received on DVD but back in the VHS days I thought it was kinda cool.
I remember when I was a kid I accidentily rented this thinking it was the movie and I was pretty angry when I popped it into my vcr and learned it was all interviews. I appretiate it a bit more now.
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