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The concept for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre arose in the early 1970s while Tobe Hooper was working as an assistant film director at the University of Texas at Austin and as a documentary cameraman. [6]
Aug 12, 2024 · The true story behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was largely that of real-life killer Ed Gein, who made furniture, clothing, and keepsakes out of human body parts. And like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre‘s infamous Leatherface, Gein created a mask made of human skin.
- Austin Harvey
Sep 6, 2017 · The death in August of 74-year-old Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote and directed this movie in central Texas, came only one month after that of George A Romero, a peer who also grew up reading EC...
- Jason Zinoman
Aug 27, 2017 · “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” literally invented the slasher film as we know it: the masked killer, the grisliness of the slaughter (though in “Chain Saw” it was notably understated),...
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: Directed by Tobe Hooper. With Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail. Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
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- Horror
- Tobe Hooper
- 1974-10-11
Hooper, an Austin-born filmmaker who was 30 years old when he shot this film, has gone on to make a dozen pictures (including directing 1982’s Poltergeist and 1986’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2).
Jul 14, 2014 · This was a tagline of the 1974 movie campaign for a super-low-budget, indie-before-there-were-indies horror flick called The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. But the questions of survival could be asked about all films.
