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Is there a specific amount of people who have to die in order for it to be considered a massacre?

posted 5 years ago by hurricane (1910)
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Four people die in this film.

Seems quite a small massacre.

Specific number, not amount. :)

[–] hurricane (1910) 5 years ago

I hang my head in shame.

By definition..there is no set number of people who have to be killed to be considered a massacre.

Here is the definition: the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty.

[–] hurricane (1910) 5 years ago

Thanks.

[–] LTUM (980) 5 years ago

I hang my head in shame.

lol :)

It is a good question though. Never thought about that.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I think the title factors in all the other deaths that the family has caused.

[–] hurricane (1910) 5 years ago

This is a fair point.

The opening monologue talks of the characters in this film discovering The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

[–] atomicx (234) 5 years ago

Yes, four people die in this film, but how many died before them?

[–] hurricane (1910) 5 years ago

About tree fiddy.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7421) 5 years ago

Maybe it was in reference to all those other people he, his brother, and his father had killed whose bodies had been rotted to skeletons.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

That's what I was thinking. Plus all those cars that were hidden.