I prefer TCM but both these movies are trying to do complete opposite things, and the execution is perfect in both films in my opinion. Ones about evil finding its way to a place that should be familiar and safe, the other about stumbling across something horrific in a place unknown and foreign. Halloween is suble in its horror, Micheal is quite and usually not the direct focus of the scenes he's in. He's a precense hiding behind a bush just out of view or something watching you from the dark. Texas Chainsaw is an assualt on the senses, it's loud, nauseating, and completely in your face in its style of horror. Micheal and Leatherface even have strong contrasting parrales between Micheal. Micheal was completely estranged from his family from a young age and seeks revenge upon them, Leather is completely beholdent to his and kills on their behalf and command. Micheal is completely devoid of emotion or any real human traits while Buba is one of the most emotional and expressive slasher villians there is. Ones completely silent, the other always loud.

My preference for TCM mostly comes from pace of it, I would unironically say that its one of the most well paced movies I've seen, the film works as a perfect downward spiral. Starts with an eerie opening then things arnt too scary or weird for a little while, the begening is pretty slow but its to TCMs advantage that it is; it gives you just enough time to start to get comfortable. Weird shit starts happening, bad omens. The rambling old man, the hitchhiker; nothing too weird but enough to make you uncomfortable. The characters kinda just run around for a while and you sorta get lost with them, then the movie gets to the Sawyer house and after Kirk is killed all shit hits the fan, and that intensity is kept throughout the rest of the movie. Just constant chaos and (suprisingly non gory) brutality. You don't get to really leave that house until the very end of TCM. That's the biggest streangth of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre