The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
 

makes Blair Witch Project look like Barney!

Bought the special DVD the other day...just introduced my nieces to Leatherface tonight :helpme

the blair witch project was the stupidest movie ever.. it was worse than 28 days later

apparently that texas chainsaw thing is real. and it happened in waco, which is a little more then an hour from here.

scary shit.

Leatherface is David Koresh?

j/k
<----- Born and raised in Texas

Actually, it's not.

well thank you.

how come the video says.... based on a true story?

To scare you.

The film cost $22,000 to make and made back $240.5 million, a ratio of $1 spent for every $10,931 made.

So the people involved in that project are propably priniting your reply right now, and smoking it with 100$ dollar bills.

Actually, the sequel is the stupidest movie ever.
BWP was pretty cool for what it was.

Was one of the best viral marketing campaigns...I remember people were flipping out over the website couldn't figure if it were real or not.

EVERYONE was talking about it and passing it around.

The story is based on a Rob or Bob Kleason who killed 2 mormons with a floor like buzz saw in 1974......

also it is thought to be based on Ed Gein

another cool fact about the original tcm:
The films budget was only $140,000 and it made back over $35 million at the box office

Ed Gein was nowhere near Tejas...supposedly that's who the Buffalo Bill character and the psycho character are based on.

Who knows what these Hollyweird types are smokin' when they write this stuff :)

Wasn't the movie based on a true story?

Nope again. And double nope. Here's what Tobe (director) and Kim (writer) told me themselves one night during the filming. They had heard of Ed Gein, the man in Plainfield, Wisconsin, who was arrested in the late 1950s for killing his neighbor and on whom the movie Psycho was based. So when they set out to write this movie, they decided to have a family of killers who had some of the characteristics of Gein: the skin masks, the furniture made from bones, the possibility of cannibalism. But that's all. The story itself is entirely made up. So, sorry folks. There never was a massacre in Texas on which this was based. No chainsaw either. And, in spite of those of you who have told me you remember when it happened, it really didn't happen. Really. Believe me. This is an interesting phenomenon. I've also had people tell me that they knew the original Leatherface, that they had been guards at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas, where he was a prisoner. Maybe they knew somebody who dreamed of being Leatherface. It is, I suppose, something to aspire to.

Yep who knows I wish they had a blurb in the begining saying the actual story it was based on.........

So you read a lot of hear-say about this psycho and that psycho that the story is about but who knows for sure is the guy who did the first movie and then wonder where he got his facts.

oops.. forgot to add
that was a quote from the guy that played leatherface in the movie.

Writer/director Tobe Hooper said the inspiration for the film came from his spotting a display
of chainsaws while standing in the hardware section of a crowded store:
"I was in the Montgomery Ward's out in Capital Plaza. I had been working on this other
story for some months ? about isolation, the woods, the darkness, and the unknown.
It was around holiday season, and I found myself in the Ward's hardware department,
and I was still kind of percolating on this idea of isolation and such. And those big
crowds have always gotten to me. There were just so many people to go through. And
I was just standing there in front of an upright display of chainsaws. And the focus just
racked from my eyeball to the people to the saws ? and the idea popped. I said, "Ooh, I
know how I could get out of this place fast ? if I just start one of these things up and
make that sound." Of course I didn't. That was just a fantasy."

Hooper has also said that he based the character of Leatherface on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin
farmer who robbed graves (his own mother's supposedly among them), allegedly engaged
in necrophilia and cannibalism, and murdered at least two women in the 1950s (one of
whose corpses was found hanging naked ? decapitated and disembowelled
? in Gein's residence). 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.

Gein later admitted to killing two women, one in 1954 and one in 1957. He was suspected
of involvement in the disappearance of four other people in central Wisconsin (two men
and two young girls) between 1947 and 1952, but the remains found in his farmhouse all
came from adult females, and none of them matched up with any of the four missing persons.
(Gein maintained that with the exception of the two women he had admitted killing, all
of the body parts in his farmhouse had been taken from corpses he dug up in the local cemetery.)

Gein's story inspired (at least in part) the Norman Bates character ? a young man who
murders women out of a twisted sense of loyalty to his dead mother ? in the classic thriller
Psycho, and the Buffalo Bill character ? a transvestite serial killer who murders women to
make use of their skin ? in the horror novel Silence of the Lambs. Although the the Leatherface
character and the events depicted in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre differ in many substantial
ways from what is known about the life and activities of Ed Gein (most notably in that Gein
was apparently far more a grave robber than a murderer, and he didn't go around slicing up
live victims with a chainsaw), there are definite similarities between the film and the Ed Gein
story as well (e.g., hanging a murder victim's corpse in the house, making functional use of the
skin from dead bodies, elements of cannibalism). Whether these similiarities are sufficiently
close to justify the statement that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was "based on a true story"
is up to filmgoers to decide for themselves.

Well looks like you were right :)

Ed Geinmain sounds pretty nutty a lot nuttier than Kleason

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gein/geinmain.htm
http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/s...73/gein_cf.htm
http://www.carpenoctem.tv/killers/gein.html

To this day, my mother thinks that The Blair Witch Project is real. I've tried explaining it to her, but she just doesn't get it. Granted, she's borderline retarded, but still...

I'll have to say it was pretty disturbing seeing how young some of the kids were that were watching the movie. In front of me was a little girl, must of been 12, who left about 3/4 through the movie. The movie seemed a little harsh to be letting in kids that young. Overall, if your into scary movies you'll probably enjoy it but think the ending is weak. If your into Jim Carrey flicks then I would recommend not seeing it.

lol

Yea..