A review by cyanide_latte
Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie by Gunnar Hansen

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I don't even know if there's a way to accurately explain or quantify how happy I am to have been able to read this book, and to listen to the late Gunnar Hansen himself narrate the audio version. I refrained from trying to find and buy a physical copy of the book, since it's out of print and every copy I see go up for sale starts around $150 going price and only goes up, and Amazon listed this as a free book with an Audible Unlimited 1-month trial. I don't care to give Amazon my money any more than I already do, I don't really use Audible, but I'm not at all opposed to taking a free trial and getting a couple of free audiobooks, especially considering what I was facing with the reality of trying to find a physical copy of this.  Now, having finished listening to it, I do want a physical copy for my personal library, but that's going to be more of a long-term, far-flung goal.

I do recommend to anyone who has even a mild interest in reading this book to try out the audiobook anyway, because getting to hear it narrated by Gunnar Hansen really helped bring it to life more.  It felt sort of like he was having a conversation with the listener than anything, just recounting the story in his own words, and I loved that so much. I could wax a bit more poetic but right now I'm still just reeling a little from having finished this, and I'm just too emotionally overjoyed and happy I got to read/listen to this book to do much more than babble incoherently right at the moment.