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August 05, 2024
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
http://www.texaschainsawmovie.com/
OK, I'm probably as skeptical as anyone about the chances that this will be worth seeing. Contemporary teen horror tends not to be a particularly challenging or frightening genre, and the cast here looks bland-o-rama. But I'm mildly intrigued by the fact that Daniel Pearl, who shot the original, has returned to his D.P. duties this time around, ensuring at least that some vestigial memory of the amazing achievement that was Texas Chain Saw may influence the atmosphere of the new one in meaningful ways. But really, I'm hoping that the folks who edited the trailer have something to do with the film proper, because it works pretty well. Halfway through, when the screen went completely dark and the cast starts to sound increasingly panicked, I got myself some goosebumps. The ensuing chainsaw-fueled chase scenes don't quite feel like old times, but they do pay the proper homage and they don't seem to be played for laughs. All hail the return of the serious American horror movie, maybe.
Posted by Bryant at August 5, 2024 10:30 PM
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who is the real texas chainsaw massacre? Is this a true story? If it is who is the killer.
Posted by: Sonny Tso at January 19, 2024 04:12 PM
the real texas chainsaw massacre is ED GEIN...
it is a true story
Posted by: emma at April 17, 2024 07:36 PM
She's right. The real killer if Ed Gein, he murdered two women, then digged up the rest of the people from the graveyards. It is a quite sickening story. Its crazy! He made cloths, purses, anything you can think of, out of real human skin. Mostly of women, he then made his own women suit! Made out of they dead women's skin!
Posted by: Mickey at April 25, 2024 01:12 PM
If this is based on Ed Gein of Wisconsin then why is it told to have taken place in Texas. Why not in Wisconsin? And why Van Zandt or Travis County? There are dozens of counties in Texas, so why is the story based on those two?
Posted by: raymond at May 3, 2024 08:43 PM
Well, here's the deal: the original movie was based very loosely on the Ed Gein story, which was a horrifying true-crime yarn that Tobe Hooper was familiar with back in the day. But the key word is loosely. Ed Gein was just the inspiration for Leatherface and the other characters in the movie; the actual events you see depicted never actually happened, despite the film's claims of being based on a true story.
There's more information at Snopes, which is a fascinating resource for this stuff.
For more information on the real Ed Gein, Harold Schechter has this great true crime book on the subject called Deviant. I recommend it to those with an interest in it and the stomach for it.
Posted by: Bryant at May 3, 2024 10:39 PM
IF U WOULD LISTEN THOMAS HEWITT WAS THE KILLER IN EITHER FULLER OR FOULER TEXAS everyone in the town was his family thats why they did not care about it
Posted by: mchael at June 22, 2024 06:55 PM
all of this happened in Wisconsin.Ed Gein shot two teenage girls with a pistol and hung one of them.Later he was aressted for murder.
Posted by: Roger at June 26, 2024 03:20 PM
Hey i'm 13 and I've been searching for hours to find stuff about the actual events on the Texas chainsaw massacre. Could someone please direct me to ssomewhere that I could get actual facts on the case for a school report.
Posted by: Andolyn at July 1, 2024 10:40 AM