It was hard for me to look at the Hammer films for example, and be horrified. Chainsaw gave you a glimpse of real horror. Hansen lives most of the year in a small coastal town in Maine where he enjoys his anonymity. I get to walk down the street and nobody has a clue that I was Leatherface. AWS Deloitte Genpact. Events Innovation Festival. Follow us:.
By Hugh Hart 4 minute Read. Almost Famous Hansen lives most of the year in a small coastal town in Maine where he enjoys his anonymity. Inc, courtesy of Chronicle Books ].
Design Co. Guillermo del Toro became a vegetarian after seeing the film. The film was originally banned in Finland, but after 25 years it was released uncut. The film is unique in that it contains one of the only instances where the victim startles the villain it happens in the scene where Sally runs down the stairs and screams at Leatherface after he sawed his way inside.
Some urban legends say that the "real" Texas Chainsaw Massacre took place near Poth a small town about 36 miles southeast of San Antonio.
This is false. The film is fictional and based loosely on the life of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein as is the classic Psycho , as well as Buffalo Bill, in the movie "Silence of the Lambs". Jim Siedow , who plays Leatherface's brother, is 20 years older than John Dugan , who plays Leatherface's grandfather.
In an interview, Gunnar Hansen stated that he saw Leatherface as "completely under the control of his family, he'll do whatever they tell him to do One of the crew members, Dorothy J. Pearl , accidentally injected herself in the leg with formaldehyde while preparing one of the props.
The chainsaw used in this film was a Poulan A, with a piece of black tape covering the Poulan logo in order to avoid a possible lawsuit. In one of Marilyn Burns ' final interviews before her death, she stated that she would take the clothes she wore during filming with her to wash. When she returned to the laundromat after one particular wash, she discovered the purple shirt and a few other copies of it had been stolen from the dryer.
Luckily, the store she had purchased them from had one left - but it was one size larger. With no other options, she had to buy it and wear only that shirt for the rest of filming.
Contrary to popular belief, this film is not a true story. It was filmed from 15 July August , while the opening narrative claims that the real events took place on 18 August Therefore, it would have been impossible for the film to have been based on events that had not happened at the time of filming. It was the biggest grossing independent film until Halloween four years later. Ed Gein --on whom "Leatherface" was loosely based--was not a true serial killer, as he actually only killed two people, both of them women.
He was however, a graverobber. He stole body parts--only female--from many different graves. He kept some of the parts in his refrigerator, and skinned one corpse and wore the skin as a dress. The movie wasn't released in Australia or New Zealand until the early s, and it was only released in Super 8 format in New Zealand until the mid-'90s. Originally had a two-week shooting schedule, but filming ultimately took four weeks. One of Tobe Hooper's techniques for making the film more intense was cutting a small number of frames off of the shot preceding something violent occurring.
This small beat catches the viewer off guard, as their eye has become accustomed to certain shots being a specific length. Cinematographer Daniel Pearl also mentioned a misdirection trick Hooper would use, which was having something on the left side of the frame, then cutting to Leatherface on the right side. In each case, most, if not all, of what was portrayed on screen was outright fiction - with the exception of "The Town That Dreaded Sundown", which was inspired by the Phantom Killer murders in Texarkana, Texas in Only one person is killed by a chainsaw in the film.
John Larroquette stated in a interview that he's never seen the film. This film has had a long and troubled "relationship" with German law. The original theatrical version in West Germany was denied a rating and therefore cut. In it was put on the index for youth-endangering media. Then in it was banned by the Munich district court and all existing copies were confiscated.
Since April the new German licensee, Turbine Medien, has tried to get the banning revoked and the film removed from the index. In September the district court of Frankfurt am Main finally lifted the banning it was the first time in Germany that such an attempt was successful, making judiciary history.
Many of the film's original locations were later featured in Headcheese , a short film named after one of this film's early titles. His role as Leatherface marked the first and only time that Gunnar Hansen shaved off his beard. He never shaved it again. To show the budget, or lack thereof, they were working with, Daniel Pearl mentions they had to choose between two vans.
One was to be the van used in the film the characters are driving. The other was to be the equipment truck. Obviously, the smaller of the two was chosen to haul the equipment. Gunnar Hansen mentions Paul Partain, who plays the wheelchair-bound Franklin, was so into his character that he would do nothing but complain all day, even off camera. Hansen says he was happy to kill Partain's character, because it meant that was the end of Partain's days on set. Leatherface is a member of the Sawyer family.
A sawyer is a person who uses a chainsaw. Premiered a year after filming had been completed. Tobe Hooper mentioned working on the screenplay with Kim Henkel. The two would get together and write pages separately, and, as Hooper notes, they knew they had what they needed when the script read funny. He mentioned people who claimed to have known the real Leatherface.
As Hansen recollected, Hooper and Henkel described the movie to him as "a whole family full of Ed Geins. Hooper remembered the stories, but he couldn't remember the name. It wasn't until a few years after he made the film that he "discovered" it was based, in part, on Ed Gein.
The original conceit for the exterior of the Sawyer house was to have the abandoned cars half-buried, some of them with only their antennas sticking up out of the ground.
Tobe Hooper notes the design wasn't able to be pulled off due to budget. The longest that Teri McMinn could comfortably hang on the "meathook" was just one minute. The Leatherface name and gimmick were used by many professional wrestling promotions as a tribute to the film. The van the kids drive belonged to Ted Nicolaou , who worked as a sound recordist on the film.
The chainsaw used was borrowed from producer Richard Saenz, who gave specific instructions that it be returned in working condition. Ed Guinn said that he took his role very seriously with an "all work and no play" attitude. He was so nervous during the shooting that he forgot to stop the truck in time for the filmmakers to prop the dummy hitchhiker in front of his truck and almost hit a real person. Director Tobe Hooper and narrator John Larroquette are the only people associated with this production to have had successful and lucrative film careers.
Gunnar Hansen went to the set before it was time for his scenes to be shot so he could get a feel for it. He remembered the actors playing the teenagers all referred to each other off camera by their character names. They did this in order to get more into their part, but that also meant they didn't want to have anything to do with Hansen.
Gunnar Hansen could rarely see in the Leatherface mask. He remembers the first take when he is carrying Teri McMinn, and knocking himself out cold after hitting the doorframe to his workshop.
Tobe Hooper jokes it made a great sound effect, though. He also notes one moment in the chase where he has to make a sharp turn. The first take of this shot, he didn't realize his boots wouldn't catch, and the actor slipped completely to the ground, chainsaw flying up in the air. When Leatherface makes a quick turn in the film, you can notice him overshooting the turn and coming back.
That's Hansen trying to keep his arms intact. The animal corpses strewn throughout the Sawyer house were borrowed from a local veterinarian.
Near the end of production, the question of how to get rid of the corpses came up. Tobe Hooper remembers someone piling them behind the house and setting them on fire. All through production, Gunnar Hansen would ask Tobe Hooper how he was going to get the shot of Leatherface getting hit in the head with a wrench and slicing into his own leg.
Hooper would respond that they would eventually figure it out, since it was one of the last shots of the movie. For the shot, Hansen had a metal plate on his leg, but the heat of the chainsaw hitting it caused him to think he had been directly hit. Some people have even called Alien a Texas Chainsaw Massacre in space. The 12th highest grossing film of According to the radio news reader, the cemetery where the graverobbing occurred was in Muerto County, Texas.
Muerto County is fictional. In fact, "Muerto" means "Dead" in Spanish. Gunnar Hansen noted there is some question as to whether the Old Man is grandfather to Leatherface and Hitchhiker or their father. Hooper agreed there is ambiguity there, but the character was actually written as their brother. Ed Gein is the name of the real criminally insane killer who inspired the character of Leatherface.
He did not wear a leather mask. What he wore was worse: a mask made of human skin. Ed Gein only killed two people, not dozens.
Hardly a massacre. He did not use a chainsaw. He used a gun. Gein did his killing in Wisconsin, not Texas. I know, disappointing right? So where did the chainsaw idea come from? Tobe Hooper, the director, said that he was in a Montgomery Ward store a few days before Christmas. The store was annoyingly crowded with aggressive shoppers.
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