The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The rest of the film is then spent with Sally being chased around by Leatherface, meeting up with the rest of his cannibalistic family and screaming an awful lot. Probably the most memorable scene is were one of the girls is hung on a meat hook, then forced to watch as Leatherface carves up her dead boyfriend with his saw
A remarkable horror movie that is impossible to recommend given its sick subject matter, but from a pure artistic, construction standpoint, this is an excellent, unforgettable movie. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a rare low-budget overnight sensation that produced hysteria and is still a disturbingly entertaining film for audiences then and now
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This is the first film to Gein's tormented upbringing, his adored but domineering mother, and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever seen. This isn't sexy and exciting to gore-hounds and thrill-seekers who come to a film like this not to learn something, but merely to stimulate their hunger for viscera
Sure, it's flawed, but the overall finished piece is more than the sum of its parts, more than it might seem to be on paper and much more than those idiots who tried to remake it really understood. Like I said, we all know the story by now, especially as Leatherface, the villain with a penchant for wearing masks made of cured human flesh, has become a horror icon all his own, up there with some of the most frightening big screen monsters like Freddy, Jason and Michael (all of whom he preceded)
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Let me list a few reasons:1) The gritty documentary feel the film has.2) The excellent performances by Edwin Neil (the Hitch-Hiker), Jim Seidow (The Old Man), and Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) as the psychos (in a film this low budget and grainy, performances this real feel all the more scary) and Marilyn Burns (Sally) and Paul A. where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills..
If you have the DVD of the original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, listen to the audio commentary track with Tobe Hooper, Gunnar Hansen and Daniel Pearle who also repeat this information again on that track. I write monthly articles on the TCM for magazines, I have been published in many newspapers and I have been interviewed in TV news specials and other documentaries
Is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movie based on a true story?
But just what true events is the movie based on? Like most movies these days there seems to be little truth or real events that they are based on, if anything just small tidbits of something. Log in to Reply Amber Amburgey says: April 19, 2014 at 12:23 pm I know the texas chainsaw from start to end Log in to Reply Cory Scholl says: June 21, 2014 at 3:56 am yes the texas chainsaw massacre movie is based on a true story Log in to Reply Cory Scholl says: June 21, 2014 at 4:18 am not ed gen Log in to Reply Jessica Shelton says: October 11, 2014 at 8:57 pm the texas chainsaw massacre was terrible event Log in to Reply Laxus R Araos says: March 22, 2015 at 6:59 am yeah but why did he kill the people ??? Log in to Reply Leave a comment Cancel You must be logged in to post a comment
What Plainfield residents would not take to their bosom was their infamous resident: Ed Gein.Quitting school at an early age, Gein was brainwashed by his religiously zealous and domineering mother, Agusta, whose philosophy was that all women-her being the only exception-were lustful, sinful and evil. Overall, however, it does a fair job of covering the life of Edward Gein, relating his case to others and discussing its far-reaching influence in pop culture (see: Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and others)
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho: Harold Schechter: 9780671025465: Amazon.com: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Deviant-Shocking-Story-Original-Psycho/dp/0671025465As the official inquiry deepened, America learned that a human monster lived in the most unlikely of settings, a man who embodied virtually every ghastly psychopathology known to modern science. When Gein's crimes were discovered, little known Plainfield, Wisconsin was forever changed into a tourist attraction for gapers.Although Gein died largely anonymously in a mental health facility, the stories of his house of horrors prospered
Ed Gein: Real American Psycho
The four posts on Gein's bed were topped with skulls and a human head hung on the wall alongside nine death-masks - the skinned faces of women - and decorative bracelets made out of human skin. By then, however, Gein had already achieved pop immortality, thanks to horror writer Robert Bloch, who had the inspired idea of creating a fictional character based on Gein-a deranged mama's boy named Norman Bates
As Gunnar Hansen, the actor who portrayed Leatherface, notes in his Texas Chainsaw Massacre FAQ: Here's what Tobe (director) and Kim (writer) told me themselves one night during the filming. Police eventually discovered the remains of 15 different mutilated female bodies in Gein's filthy farmhouse, parts of which (mostly skin and bones) had been fashioned into a variety of bizarre objects (including drums, bowls, masks, bracelets, purses, knife sheaths, leggings, chairs, lampshades, and shirts), as well as a refrigerator full of human organs
Ed Gein - Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The True Story
Leatherface) Ed GeinBorn: August 27, 1906Birthplace: La Crosse, WisconsinDeath: July 26, 1984, Waupun, Wisconsin (lung cancer) *Note: REEL FACES content below is slightly graphic in nature as the real individual is separated from the movie's fictional elements. But, had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day
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