Watch: Nicolas Winding Refn's 4K 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' Intro — firstshowing.net

"What you're seeing tonight is the reason why I started making movies." One of the many events that took place during the 2014 Cannes Film Festival was a special tribute screening of a 4K restored version of Tobe Hooper's horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It was a special screening for the Directors' Fortnight, or Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, and it was introduced by Cannes jury member Nicolas Winding Refn. He gave a rather rambunctious intro, joking about how he should've won the Palme last year, but later going on to say that introducing this was a kind of closure for him, because when he was 14 he saw this at the Cinema Village in NYC and it made him want to be a director. He then goes on to call it a masterpiece.

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