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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.
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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
hi im thirteen and i belive in the story and i find it very disturbing that someone could do that to women. I really think that someone out there should make a site with all information so evryone can now what really happed with ED GEIN and his victoms.
Posted by: britany wood at July 5, 2024 09:43 PM
I think he is real i look at a web page and it said he would be a bout fifty yrs old i thing its benny makindo
Posted by: Trenae at July 5, 2024 11:09 PM
i like eating a savaloy sausage
Posted by: at July 8, 2024 12:30 PM
I SAW THIS MOVIE IT WAS SO COOL ,MY SISTERS WERE SCARED OF THE TEXAS CHAINSAW THAT EVERY NIGHT THEY THOUGHT THE TEXAS CHAINSAW WAS HIDDING IN THE CLOSET.. I JUST LAUGH AND LAUGH WHEN THEY HAERD THE CHAINSAW THEY GOT SCARED THE MOVIE WASEN'T SCARY.
Posted by: G-UNIT KING at October 10, 2024 01:12 PM
i what to know WHAT really happen.Because I`ve searched and searched but nothing. Some say there was a texas chainsaw massacre and others say it was just inspired by Ed Gein. So please some one tell me, its driving me crazy i mean i really want to know.
Posted by: Stephany at October 22, 2023 04:45 PM
im from texas my self and was realy wondering if it really happened.and if it did they never cought the guy,right?so he could still be here in texas.to freaked out to say more.
Posted by: samantha at October 31, 2023 10:14 AM
for godsake people!!! there was no texas chainsaw murders... its a movie and there in nothing real about it, the guy wore skin masks... just like Ed Gein, thats all.. its like saying that Lake placid is based on real events because a big croc killed some people in a lake somewhere in the U.S... the Ed gein crimes where gruesome for the real world but he would look like a granny compared to any killer from a movie... hell.. he would look like a granny if compared to the crazy talibans or the spanish inquisition (and they were real)
Posted by: infyrana at November 1, 2023 12:55 PM
Ok, I now live in Tarrant County Tx but we are from Travis County. This all happened in 1973, the year I was born. My mom is a reporter and has about a hundred whole newspaperss from this date. There really was a nut named Thomas Hewitt that was a mass murderer in Travis. In these papers...it starts with a dispatch call from that night the next paper is an article of the bodies found in the house, the next is pics of the house and the scene ect... Sorry to bust yalls Ed Geins theory!!!!!!!In these papers are SEVERAL pics of of the scene, family, theres even a list of some of the peoples bodies that were identified.
Posted by: tricia at November 22, 2023 04:55 AM
leatherface was a real person and he did not get his cut off like in the movie.
Posted by: tommy at December 12, 2023 04:43 PM