The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Has Earned Its Rightful Spot in the National Film Registry

It took the Library of Congress 50 years, but astatine agelong past Leatherface and his barbecue-loving cannibal household tin assertion 1 of cinema’s highest honors: 1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper‘s influential indie fearfulness classic, has been added to the National Film Registry for preservation. It’s 1 of 25 films selected this year.

There are present immoderate 900 films successful this prestigious group, selected owed to “their cultural, historic, oregon aesthetic value to sphere the nation’s movie heritage,” according to a property release. This year’s people includes a divers array of titles, including respective genre films and cult favorites. Along with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, there’s Invaders From Mars, Ganja and Hess, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan—as good arsenic Up successful Smoke, Beverly Hills Cop, Dirty Dancing, and Spy Kids. The astir caller summation is David Fincher’s Facebook root story, 2010’s The Social Network.

Here’s the afloat list:

• Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
• KoKo’s Earth Control (1928)
• Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
• Pride of the Yankees (1942)
• Invaders from Mars (1953)
• The Miracle Worker (1962)
• The Chelsea Girls (1966)
• Ganja and Hess (1973)
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
• Zora Lathan Student Films (1975-76)
• Up successful Smoke (1978)
• Will (1981)
• Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)
• Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
• Dirty Dancing (1987)
• Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
• Powwow Highway (1989)
• My Own Private Idaho (1991)
• American Me (1992)
• Mi Familia (1995)
• Compensation (1999)
• Spy Kids (2001)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• The Social Network (2010)

The Library of Congress does judge nominations from the public; you person until August 2025 to formed your ballot for a movie you deliberation should articulation the National Film Registry close here. You tin besides cheque retired the afloat database of films already included here.

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